Thanks for your comments, Henry.
Does anyone wish to comment on this example of screen violence:
During a battle scene in The Patriot (an American recruitment film starring
Mel Gibson), a cannon ball is fired from a distance towards the camera. It
then rushes to fill the screen as if striking the lens. My reaction was to
flinch. The subsequent angle (in a very quick cut) was a medium shot of a
soldier whose head is promptly removed by a cannon ball.
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