Unrealistic cartoonish violence may prove cathartic rather than harmful

Evidence

This film is energetic, visually brilliant and very funny, with a sharp script that is never allowed to hold up the carnage. Its violence is spectacular, totally unrealistic and—who knows?—perhaps quite therapeutic. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 339

Categorization

• FICTION: A useful stance for writing violent scenes: stylizing action so far past realism that it becomes comic and freeing rather than graphic.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 339