The Legend of 'Suicide Circle' article

A strange (at times tongue-in-cheek) reactionary fear runs through Suicide Circle. This streak is the sort of age-old worry about what the media is doing to our children: innocuous pop songs can drive kids to murder, and the internet (where anyone can be hiding behind a single red dot) can drive them to suicide.

The film could be a contemporary urban legend, a wildfire rumor about the power of peer pressure and hidden messages in pop songs. Suicide Circle‘s violence has no true epicenter, and for all of his bravado, we sense Genesis’ specialty is torture, not brainwashing. Like legend or mass hysteria there is no one origin.

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