I think you are right up to a point Ebbie. My Mum used to like films in which the "good" cowboy wallopped the wrong guy and she enjoyed films which showed "justified" violence, as long as it was not too graphically depicted. She was a nurse, so she must have known what the results of real violence looked like. She enjoyed the fantasy that the good guy always won and the bad guys got their deserts. She was never keen on any sort of moral ambiguity, so the films of her day were generally just right for her. I also find this sort of violence entertaining in films, whereas in real life, I have always detested it - even when the "bad" guy got thumped (which was rarely).