AMC’s decision to post a trigger warning about Goodfellas was reported last weekend. We all know that the people who push for trigger warnings (“uh-oh, you might be upset or traumatized by something in this film, especially if you’re an ultra-sensitive Zoomer #MeToo-er!”) are unstable fanatics and Stalinists at heart — a blight upon our culture.
Quite often the point of shocking or upsetting moments in certain films, especially those of a higher calibre, is to deliberately shock or alarm the viewer. That’s the (sometimes artistic) intention. It was certainly the intention in Martin Scorsese’s 1990 gangster classic.
I presume that trigger warnings will be (or have been) attached to showings of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, both of which have scenes in which ugly racial comments are spoken.
