ilm that violence is commonplace in American society and Americans are becoming fed up with living in such a frightening and brutal reality.
There are two primary keywords involved in the analysis of Boondock Saints. The first of these is interpersonal communication. Bochner (1989 in Knapp, & Daly, 2002, p. 9) maintains that interpersonal communication involves ôàat least two interpersonal communicators; intentionally orienting towards each other; as both subject and object; whose actions embody each otherÆs perspective both toward self and toward other.ö Another definition provided for interpersonal communications stems from Capella (1987 in Knapp, & Daly, 2002, p. 9), who maintains ôIf interpersonal communication has any essential feature, it is that persons influence one anotherÆs behavior over and above that attributed to normal baselines of actions.ö
Within the concept of interpersonal communication is another keyword used in this analysis of Boondock Saints, nonverbal communication. Edward Sapir (1949 in Knapp
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