Violence And Sexuality In 'Bonnie And Clyde'

We live in a time that movies that have violence and sexuality is considered to be a super hit movie, but what about the time when violence and sexuality was not in movies. In the 1960s movies did not have any violence and sexuality, but everything took a turn when the movie Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie and Clyde was a movie that came out with much more violence and sexuality ever seen by people in movie. This movie is about a man and woman who take the path of stealing money from banks to survive instead of making a living the honest way. Bonnie and Clyde left people in shock because it was the first movie to have so much violence and sexuality in it that people did not expect at all. When Bonnie and Clyde came out people reaction were not good at all. People did not give this movie the best rating and reviews at all including the critic Bosley Crowther who stated that violence is cheap and awful. On the other hand, Pauline Kale …show more content…
The biggest reason that this movie was a hit because of the critics Pauline Kale and Bosley Crowther whose reviews made this movie shine in Hollywood in the 1960s. In the 1960s people did not watch movie that had so much violence in it so when this movie came out it was shocking to everyone and disappointing to everyone. Pauline Kale as critic was ready to change everyone view on the movie by defending the movie saying that it was okay for movies to have violence. In her fourteen pages’ review Pauline Kale states, “The brutality that comes out of this innocence is far more shocking than the calculated brutalities of mean killers,” (Kale). Kale says this in the review because people overacted on the brutality that was shown in the movie which made people give bad reviews on. This movie makes critics reviews more important than people reviews because people only gave this movie a bad review only due to the fact that society does not like