Forget the Chauffeur, Get To The Quipping: Defending Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me
What these critics seemed to miss was the obvious fact that shocking them out of that comfort zone was precisely Winterbottom’s intent. As Casey Affleck put it in his defense of the film, “irresponsible is when you have a movie where 300 people get killed by robots, and none of it matters, none of it registers. In this movie, we wanted the violence to seem real.”