A History of Violence Movie Streaming
Lundi, septembre 13th, 2010 |
A History of Violence Movie Streaming.
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Director David Cronenberg’s movies glisten with a surface sheen that is always perfect. His mise en scene is often pathologically devoid of human connection or touch, though his films are always thought provoking and often scandalous in their grasp of the detritus of our lives. Is there any more beautiful movie than “Dead Ringers?” Any movie as scandalous, off-putting yet compelling as “Crash?” (the version with Rosanna Arquette and Holly Hunter).
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In his terrific new film, “A History of Violence” Cronenberg has it both ways: his film features a straight forward plot that he handles with just a slight out-of-kilter quality that adds crunch and bite to the story of a man, Tom Stall (the quintessential strong silent, Gary Cooper-type, Viggo Mortensen) who, when placed in a situation that requires swift and brutal force…vomits out the internal fortitude necessary from deep inside his psyche and bowels to come up with the goods to deal with the situation. “AHOV” then, is about violence, brutality and the far reaching and ever telescoping tentacles that both exhibit as they wreak havoc on Tom, his wife Edie (the luminous Maria Bello) and his family and friends.
Cronenberg is dealing with some lofty and controversial ideas here: Kill someone and forever pay the price for that murder, whether or not the crime is justified or not. Commit violence and that violence colors everything that you are, everything that you do for the rest of your life. Once you take someone’s life how much of you, the essence, the soul, the heart of you is gone also?
Viggo Mortensen’s Tom Stall is strong of mind and morals, tender, vulnerable, upstanding but ultimately conflicted. Mortensen turns in a shaded performance that not only shows up Tom’s soft side but also his malevolent one as well. Maria Bello, usually miss-used in her previous films is a revelation here as Edie: intelligent, accomplished, dedicated and hopelessly in love with Tom but aware that many times being in love doesn’t mean you know everything about the object of that love.
“A History of Violence” is Cronenberg’s “Vertigo”: his version of obsession, violence and retribution told the Cronenbergian way: slanted toward the perverse…bordering on the maniacal. Don’t blame Cronenberg because he is not Hitchcock, for he has learned his lessons from the master well. Blame him because he has come up with a film that is provocative and multi-layered though: one as transparent as a silk screen, just slightly out of reach…beckoning us in for a closer, scalpel-like investigation of what makes us tick, the buttons to punch to make us react and the mechanics necessary to allow us to exist.
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David Cronenberg always does films that tend to look at human nature in a different way: sexuality in Crash and changes in personality in the Fly. With this film, he gets into what makes people violent and how far it can go, particularly when it comes to saving family members and loved ones. It’s a nice exploration but as a film it really left me cold, with highlights being 2 sex scenes and a couple shots of big violence.
Tom Stall is a family man with 2 kids leaving in a small town. He runs a local diner which one night attracts some criminal attention, which Tom ends up disposing of rather cleanly. It attracts some more attention, this time from local news and including a strange guy with an even stranger eye and tells him that Tom had a much different life than he does now.
While David Lynch likes to make really weird surrealist films, David Cronenberg likes to do films that take a look at transformation and ways people react to things. These 2 will always make interesting movies but I kind of lean towards Cronenberg ones, even though I don’t really watch many of them. To me it’s a misstep though as the film after it ended didn’t really last with me on any level.
Casting is quite solid across the board, including William Hurt, who finally puts in some menace into his “woke up too early” voice. Viggo is always great although he does have this tendency to mumble sometimes and Maria Bello is always good. Ed Harris is effective as a villain, with a very uneasy feeling you get whenever he’s around.
As for the violence in the film, it’s not incredibly violent. There’s a couple of shots that are cringe-inducing such as what happens when you punch someone in the nose a bit too much but it’s actually not as violent as you would think. The 2 sex scenes are not that graphic but it’s definately not candlelight and blowing curtains, you don’t really see much during them but using your imagination they’ll get graphic.
After the film was over I remember thinking “what was the point of this one?”. Unlike the Fly which was entertaining or Crash which was incredibly erotic in the strangest sense, this doesn’t have any kick to it. It’s worth a rental but I wouldn’t buy it unless it was a gift from someone.
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