Another Useless Clue

The Washington Post has found a Korean movie that might have been some kind of supposed influence on VA Tech shooter.

Whatever.

No seriously, that's my reponse, whatever. Does anyone really think that knowing this is somehow significant? We can send out some tough-talking reporter to ask rhetorical questions of the director with that cut-eye glare that investigative journalists all seem to master. Maybe some video stores will ban this particular movie. The movie will be a convenient prop whenever family-values people make presentations to lawmakers.

Then we'll forget it.

Why? Because any one of hundreds of movies would have done in the place of this film. The output of Quentin Tarantino alone could have been used to give the killer some kind of aesthetic gloss. If you purge all movies from our culture, maybe he'd model himself on more literary killer, like Raskolnikov, or Judge Holden.

The Post article attaches great importance to finding out which specific movies Cho was into. It will tell us next to nothing about him.