Midsummer Musings

FILM

NOTHING succeeds like excess, said Oscar Wilde, and this summer’s movies are hell-bent on proving him right. Folks did not know how good they had it when they complained about sex and violence preponderating in the movies; at least the one was a relief from the other. Now it seems to be nothing but violence, wall to wall, and thus duller and worse. If one of the two had to go, I wish it had been violence, which is a form of aggression, of hate.