<p>I don’t avoid movies based on the content, regardless of how brutal it is. It only bothers me if it is gratuitous. I didn’t feel that the brutal scenes in “Dragon” were gratuitous. I felt they were necessary to illustrate the character.
I did have a very strong reaction to the scene and had a hard time shaking it but, to me, art should provoke strong reactions and leave the viewer changed in some way.</p>