Gun Crazy. Joseph H. Lewis, 1949.
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Edition screened: Warner Blu-ray, released 2018. English language. Runtime approximately 87 minutes.
Summary: Murder of a chick.
Details: One baby chick in the little flock clucking around a mother hen is shot with a BB gun. There is a long build-up of tension during the aiming process, and a long image of the dead chick. All of this, 3:45-4:09.
The movie’s disgusting point here is that the murderous boy learned his lesson and would never kill anything again. This complacent value displacement is too common in our culture, as though violent boys should, need to, are entitled to murder animals so they learn a lesson or get it out of their system. How about just teaching them that animal lives are precious and humans shouldn’t act like assholes? In this case it was all a lie anyhow and he ends up plugging his lover to save a childhood friend who also was an animal-shooting boob.
That misguided pedestrian moralizing aside, this is a reasonably entertaining movie.