11:11 pm Aug. 11, 20101
Click below to watch "Lock & Load," a video essay about the role of guns in film, presented by Capital and Matt Zoller Seitz, editor emeritus of The House Next Door.
Runtime: 16:26.
Video by Matt Zoller Seitz, Aaron Aradillas and Steven Santos.
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Guns are an excellent metaphor for cameras, which is why I always thought they look so good in movies. Both guns and cameras are complicated highly-evolved technology fetishes. No accident that you "shoot" things with both.