CINEMA: Depraved film the symptom of a sick culture – the Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading*

Dr John Whitehall reviews the latest Coen brothers’ film, Burn After Reading.I came out of the cinema thinking, “The end is surely nigh”. I had endured Burn After Reading (rated MA) to the end, immobilised by its poisonous drivel, and found no cleansing in the cool night air.Was this America? Was this what the West had come to? If this was representative, we have lost.My wife and I had gone to the movies because our son had given us luxury tickets as a present, and their time was expiring.I rang…

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