“If we do this then we can’t make any movies for fear someone will misunderstand the characters.” “This is like giving in to terrorism, isn’t it?” “Don’t blame the movie for what people do.” Reaction online has largely stood up in defense of the movie, and said that fingers should be pointed at the criminals and the media attention they get instead. With all the recent train-based violence, broadcasting a movie with a pivotal train murder scene was already dicey, but a person actually dressed as the Joker seemed to be the final nail in the coffin. On Aug 6, there was a multiple stabbing on a train in Tokyo. The source singles out the scene in which Phoenix’s character murders three people on a train as the reason. In addition to the Halloween attack, there has been a series of recent incidents on trains in Japan including an arson attempt on a shinkansen line on Nov 8 and an assault on another shinkansen line on Nov 9.
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