Quentin Tarantino Defends Film Violence After Shootings

A prominent Harvard psychologist has denounced Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino for defending violence in movies following the Newtown school massacre in Connecticut.
Tarantino, whose credits include movies like True Romance, Reservoir Dogs and Inglourious Basterds, claimed he was “tired” of defending his films each time there was an act of gun violence in America

The Django Unchained director said he was tired of defending his films each time the US is shocked by gun violence, adding "tragedies happen".

But lead actor Jamie foxx who starred as the protagonist of Django Unchained, a slave living in the Deep South who sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, said big screen violence can influence people Dr. Pamela Cantor, a lecturer in psychology at Harvard Medical School, who is also president of the American Association of Suicide, believes that Tarantino’s comments are inaccurate. He says    “I don’t agree with his comments. They were glib and ill-informed after that terrible shooting,”