Everything from influences of early gun ownership to the social consequences of repeated shootings has come under scrutiny, especially in relations to public attitude of gun control and gun violence. And yet, it seems to me, hardly anybody is paying attention to one of the greatest sources of social influence: movies, more specifically blockbusting, bloody, shooting-people’s-heads-off type of movie.

Can art even be apolitical? Can anything, at that, be apolitical? What is politics, after all? In these modern days and age, we are too consumed by politicians espousing ideologies that we automatically think of politics as Red, Blue, Green, etc. But really, at its core, politics is about power.

Feminism has come a long way from its primal days of demanding votes for women. Political equality, sexual liberation and workplace empowerment — they’re some of the most momentous causes that this ever-evolving force has been fighting for. One need not look into politics to see the proof, just in the advertisements of various industries.