In defence of the eyeball scene.

Rating: 9/10 (14 May 2002)

I really liked this movie, as always Stone provides a great soundtrack, and as in 'Natural Born Killers', there's a lot of music that wasn't put on the soundtrack, even though this time there were two soundtracks. Besides the score was on a third promotional album that is practically impossible to get here in Chile.
Anyway, Stone's direction is really enjoyable, he combines music with filming techniques very excitingly, the same as in NBK, in fact, I rented AGS because it was directed by Stone.
I don't think that I'm saying anything that wasn't mentioned before, so I'll get to my point. The scene were a football player loses his right eyeball wasn't put for entertainment, or for amusing or anything like that. The point was to show how the public, the crowd, the stadium reacted to it. You can see the public rasing of their sits with grins on their faces to see something, with a sort of need to watch violence. For those of you who have seen other Stone movies, I know how this sounds to you, exactly as the media theme of NBK, a critic to society. This is not the main theme of AGS however, so I don't think that it was an unnecessary theme in the movie.
So remember that in every Stone movie, anything that is excessive has a deeper meaning below, they're satires.