Ann Hornaday on her Elliot Rodger YouTube video column, the response and a conversation that should continue

images-10It’s an occupational hazard of a film critic to be misunderstood. Add extenuating circumstances like a horrifically violent tragedy, hot-button issues and tighter-than-usual deadlines, and the likelihood of something you write becoming twisted, tortured and torqued out of context rises with exponential certainty. But even knowing all that, I was surprised Monday morning to discover that an essay I’d written over the weekend – about the YouTube video posted by Elliot Rodger, who took six lives and his own in Isla Vista, Calif., on Friday – had earned the wrath of filmmaker Judd Apatow and his frequent collaborator, actor […]