* Directed by Jeff Dupre * Written by Michelle Ferrari * Narrated by Linda Hunt; voices by Stephen Spinella, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cherry Jones, Edward Norton, and Leland Gantt * Released by Zeitgeist Films

If there is anything I find more upsetting than graphic violence on-screen, it is scenes that show Republicans speaking into micro phones. I would happily take my entire 401(k) and endow any university that would siphon off a fraction of its funds for studying the effects of glamorized depictions of heavy artillery and put it toward research into the psychic damage wrought by ignorant people saying stupid things in such a manner that many others can hear them.

An advisory for the faint of heart: The amplified Republican scenes begin 27 minutes and 29 seconds into Out of the Past, as Utah senator Charles Stewart tells a TV reporter that homosexuality "destroys our families, destroys our lives, and destroys our...