"Ong Bak 2" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) for long stretches of martial-arts violence (and arrows and swords).
I minored in theatre history so I'm familiar with this art violence that started two years ago, when that armed group called JujamSomething broke into the Shubert Theatre during a preview of "The Bridges of Madison County" and hijacked at gunpoint the entire cast, the scenery, the orchestra, the audience, and Andrew Lloyd WEbber himself across the street to their St. James Theatre.
29 It's the night of the unification bout for the middleweight belt, Felix Trinidad versus Bernard Hopkins, and the garden is boiling over with both the near-insanity of a mass gathering so soon after the events of the 11th, and the anticipation of the state-of-the-art violence to come.
There's a fascinating story beneath the pixel-art violence, too, involving the Russian mafia, the Miami underground and our antihero protagonist Jacket's meltdown into a surreal unknown.
Somehow, in the disparate weaves of conversation--Seattle, Ecuador, Noboa, art, violence, politics--the layers of memory, mine and Josephs and Kate's, of political undertone: graphic violence and corporal gore rise to the forefront like sea garbage, like the worst of us, like that which artists of Vrijmoet's caliber and awareness ask us to confront.
Durand's Baby-face Finnster visage (with permanently semi-pursed lips that make him appear to have been weaned on a pickle) and gentle, cracking voice belie a capacity for state-of-the-art violence, and his face, mildly pockmarked and creased along the sides of his lips like a ventriloquist dummy, give him an additional wooden-ness.
Of the random act of art-violence, Opera Gallery owner Gregory Lahmi tells Creators, "It's a shame.
Unfortunately, many people believe that the martial arts spawn violence.
