MARTIN SCORSESE wins the Stardumb play-of-the-week award for this beaut: “It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and, if it does, then only temporarily. . . There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.”

Note to the famed director of such bloody classics as “Goodfellas” (in which a Mafia organization maintains discipline through violence), “Taxi Driver” (in which a young girl is saved from a life of prostitution by violence), and “Raging Bull” (in which violence, sadly, gets the better of Jake La Motta): Violence changes everything.

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