the shooter plays
Apr. 20th, 2007 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
faceless_wonderit probably makes me a bad person, but i'll admit. i did it. my curiosity got the best of me, and i read the two plays written by seung cho, the virginia tech school shooter.
after reading them both, one overarching theme sticks in my mind. no, it's not violence, or disturbance.
it's the fact that he was an absolutely terrible writer.
the plays were just so juvenile. the stories were poorly paced...they jerked and jumped around, and neither story's plot flowed smoothly at all. they weren't interesting; they were actually quite boring. i finished them because they were short, and because i was curious, but that was it.
it was pathetic...were the plays a cry for help? that's the only explanation i can come up with for either of them. they were so full of profanity just for profanity's sake...and hatred for hatred's sake...and shocking lines just to show that he could, and did, write it.
maybe i'm overly cruel about them. maybe i should cut the plays some slack, since they were written by a college kid in a playwriting class. maybe i should be a little more sensitive, since the guy who wrote them snapped, shot over sixty people, and then turned the gun on himself.
i'll admit that they are important in shedding some light on the person who committed such a horrible act. but, they are not, and will never be, as important as literature. they're an ultra-violent, dramatic version of bad teenage poetry.
after reading them both, one overarching theme sticks in my mind. no, it's not violence, or disturbance.
it's the fact that he was an absolutely terrible writer.
the plays were just so juvenile. the stories were poorly paced...they jerked and jumped around, and neither story's plot flowed smoothly at all. they weren't interesting; they were actually quite boring. i finished them because they were short, and because i was curious, but that was it.
it was pathetic...were the plays a cry for help? that's the only explanation i can come up with for either of them. they were so full of profanity just for profanity's sake...and hatred for hatred's sake...and shocking lines just to show that he could, and did, write it.
maybe i'm overly cruel about them. maybe i should cut the plays some slack, since they were written by a college kid in a playwriting class. maybe i should be a little more sensitive, since the guy who wrote them snapped, shot over sixty people, and then turned the gun on himself.
i'll admit that they are important in shedding some light on the person who committed such a horrible act. but, they are not, and will never be, as important as literature. they're an ultra-violent, dramatic version of bad teenage poetry.
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Date: 2007-04-20 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-21 02:57 am (UTC)not everyone who is hateful is going to do something like that...i think that's the problem with automatically freaking out if someone writes something that's ridiculously depressing or violent. i mean...it's okay to show some concern, but not to be overly pushy.
i know that's the wrong thing to say now, but i still believe it, even after.
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