A History of Violence

David Cronenberg, USA / Germany, 2005
3.5 out of 4 stars

I appreciated it a little better this time, perhaps because I wasn’t expecting to be unsettled by the violence rather than the emotional clashes. David Cronenberg says in one of the special features that you’re supposed to be “implicated” by the violence, which indeed does happen. You do still need to sort of be prepared for what you’re gonna see ahead of time, as my friends showed me when they talked about how laughable they found the whole thing to be. Subversiveness is the eye of the beholder, perhaps?

Source: Warner DVD
18 March, 10 PM