History of Violence
I just got back from seeing it. I don't have much to say at the moment. But this will sit with me for awhile, even more than many other movies that I've thoroughly enjoyed. Viggo's character very much reminded me of my dad. His adolescent and young adult past was never as extreme as Joey's, nor was the domestic life that I remember ever as saccharine as Tom's, but I do know a lot about my dad's earlier years to know that the man he later became was very different than the way he started out. Not unlike Tom, he had a past and a way of behaving that he too had to very consciously shed.
I might write more about this later. Suffice it to say that a few years ago I had the rather unpleasant experience of being recognized as his son by a woman whose husband my father had, many years before, put into a hospital, in a coma. And that's just one story about a frightening person who, in the guise as my dad, would read to me from the encyclopedia and would draw or paint the covers for my book reports in elementary school.
I can't believe this movie is being condemned in some quarters the way it is. I suppose it shows that we all potentially live in wildly different realities.
I might write more about this later. Suffice it to say that a few years ago I had the rather unpleasant experience of being recognized as his son by a woman whose husband my father had, many years before, put into a hospital, in a coma. And that's just one story about a frightening person who, in the guise as my dad, would read to me from the encyclopedia and would draw or paint the covers for my book reports in elementary school.
I can't believe this movie is being condemned in some quarters the way it is. I suppose it shows that we all potentially live in wildly different realities.