Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courtney Cox reprise their roles as targets of the lunatic. But try explaining the reasoning behind that logic to the students of Windsor College as they're being offed by another "Ghostface" maniac, who appears to be a mere copy-cat killer. The bigger theme in this follow-up to 1996's slasher hit is whether or not society is influenced by the brutalities depicted on the silver screen.Īsk me, and the answer is an unequivocal NO! Unless directly urged or pressured to commit a wrong, people are solely responsible for their individual actions. A college film class, which features the faces of Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joshua Jackson, Timothy Olyphant as Mickey and Jamie Kennedy returning as the movie geek, argues over a possible correlation between real-life violence and the stuff we only see in the movies. But immediately following that scene, the popular director, working from another script by Kevin Williamson, reveals other concerns when discussing the issues of movie violence. The entire sequence really shows Wes Craven's skill behind the camera when offered some meaty material, something with a bigger bite than a standard horror flick or a vampire in Brooklyn. When faced with a tangible murder, our shock comes not from it happening before our eyes, but from the difficulty in distinguishing reality from a staged prank or a movie. There's something about fictionalizing real-life horrors that somehow distances us for the actual loss of human life, and to a deeper extent, the certainty of death. Despite knowing a movie is based on true events, people flock to theaters with hungry eyes, craving to see how it all happened in gruesome detail. 'Scream 2' opens with a very well-done and understated commentary on movie violence - the ways in which it seems glorified and celebrated to the amusement of a desensitized audience.
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