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'Bioshock Infinite' is not addressing racism or religious fanaticism, it’s saying that evil people will do evil things simply because they are evil.
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It’s kind of silly and a little baffling to say that a violent movie like Terminator 2 taught me that violence is an evil thing. But it did.
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The films and personality of Quentin Tarantino both tend to have a polarizing effect on filmgoers, and 'Django Unchained' will most assuredly continue that tendency and for the same basic reasons.
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