Rafter: Introduction, "Crime Films and Society"

After reading the introduction the first thing that popped in my head were the last two movies I watched Batman and Colombiana (great movie) all for my pleasure to escape from the world. In Batman the ending is sad and a good guy turns evil and portrays to you that the law system is corrupt and in Colombiana she kills everyone who had something to do with killing her whole  family, which can be debatable on a happy ending or sad ending. To me it was a happy ending because she didn't get caught nor did she die. I put myself in her shoes and I probably would have done the same thing and get revenge and watch all the other people suffer like she has suffered her whole life. In today's crime films you never know how the ending will end.....some are good and some just boggle your mind, leaving you wanting to watch more. Like in Alice Young's reading, every movie wants you to have feeling on what crime is occurring in movies. You wouldn't watch a movie if you didn't feel anything from it, if it's a happy or disturbed.