article_snippet: Actor said Actor chooses to bear witness to the gruesome clips, in which Americans, Britons and Kurds have been graphically slaughtered, because 'real violence' is often hidden from us.
article_snippet: Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Actor said: 'The problem is us are not seeing enough of real violence.
article_snippet: us are being anesthetized when you don't see the horror of war.'
article_snippet: Sean Penn said that the graphic reality of the murder videos counteracts 'political correctness', which has led upsetting images from conflict such as that in Iraq and Afghanistan from being kept off-screen.
article_snippet: Sean Penn said that staged violence in movies and the real violence such as that being perpetrated in Iraq and Syria are not the same thing.
article_snippet: Violence in movies: Sean Penn made a point of differentiating fictional violence, like that in Sean Penn new film, above, from real-life acts by the likes of ISIS .
highlights_snippet: Actor advocates watches videos because people are 'anesthetized'
  Said graphic murder videos from Syria counteract 'political correctness' 