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	CINETEXT A History of Violence
		The curse of violence pervades his house as even his reluctant son emerges as a destroyer and potential killer when his docile mask is exposed by an aggressor.
		The repressed status of the history of violence maintains the delusion of goodness which is propped up by lies but is paradoxically governed by self deception.
		American Joey is cursed and displaced by his history of violence and remains grounded in aggression, sex, doubt, fear and death with no way out because he, like Oedipus is blind, crippled and incapable of seeing himself as he is. Isolation only reinforces his detachment to the curious question of the truth of his nature.
	cinetext.philo.at /magazine/stanwick/historyofviolence.html (1167 words)

	A History Of Violence: New Line Platinum Series (2005)
		Based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, A History of Violence is the tale of Tom Stall.
		A History of Violence appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		A History of Violence may be one of those movies that impresses more on subsequent viewings.
	www.dvdmg.com /historyofviolence.shtml (1666 words)

	A History of Violence (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A History of Violence is an Academy-Award nominated 2005 film, directed by David Cronenberg.
		The lengthy subplot concerning his son Jack turning to violence after his father's example did not exist in the comic, nor does the emotionally charged fight (and subsequent rough sex on the stairs) between Tom and Edie.
		Thematic similarities between the film and the works of Sam Peckinpah have been much commented on: in an interview, Cronenberg did not deny this but also emphasized that there were significant differences both in terms of plot and style.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_History_of_Violence_(film) (1346 words)

	Amazon.com: A History of Violence: Books: John Wagner,Vince Locke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While it goes without saying the acts of violence are vivid (and almost difficult to view at times), Locke also depicts the more mundane aspects of the McKennas' lives, underscoring the everyman quality of Tom and the essentially average existence he leads.
		A History of Violence is an extraordinary title, and as the intro by the author explains, is better than any fantasy epic could be if only for the fact that this sort of thing happens every day in real life.
		A History of Violence is divided into three chapters- Tom dealing with the thugs, explaining his background, and the resolution of him dealing with the problem head-on.
	www.amazon.com /History-Violence-John-Wagner/dp/1563893673 (3351 words)

	National Abortion Federation: History of Clinic Violence
		This foundation of harassment led to violence with the first reported clinic arson in 1976 and a series of bombings in 1978.
		Extreme violence has the potential to destroy clinics and harm the lives of clinic staff.
		Anti-abortion extremists perpetrated an unprecedented level of violence in 1993 with the first murder of an abortion provider, Dr. David Gunn.
	www.prochoice.org /about_abortion/violence/history_violence.html (406 words)

	A History of Violence by Howard Shore \| Cinemusic.net Soundtrack Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A History of Violence, Cronenberg's harrowing portrait a well-loved man whose identity is thrown into question by a single act of violent defense, may be their best collaboration to date.
		A History of Violence feels much more emotionally accessible, perhaps owing to the fact that Shore mingles the ominous dread with more heart and humanity than he did in those earlier desolate scores.
		History's tracks are almost all one-word titles, as though to imply the stark animalistic instincts that the music keeps driving to unearth.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2005/history_of_violence.html (1187 words)

	Yoshie Furuhashi, "A History of Violence"
		David Cronenberg's latest, A History of Violence, is a fine reworking of the Western and film noir in his "realist" turn.
		The past in question is a history of violence, his service as a violent foot soldier for a gangster capitalist (who happens to be his brother).
		The history of violence must be dealt with.
	mrzine.monthlyreview.org /furuhashi131105.html (409 words)

	A History of Violence Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		With A History of Violence, Cronenberg's adaptation of the John Wagner and Vince Locke graphic novel, the director has made an unusually spare and accessible thriller, free of his often clinical, surrealist touches.
		In the process, much horrific violence occurs, but it's not all of the gore-splattered variety—and by Cronenberg's often gruesome standards (remember Scanners?), the bloodshed is comparatively restrained.
		Although A History of Violence may be too mainstream for die-hard Cronenberg cultists, it's nonetheless a finely wrought and intelligent thriller from a director of singular vision.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=118429 (2067 words)

	A History of Violence
		Based loosely based on a popular graphic novel, "Violence" is a brilliant film that looks beneath the calm exterior of a man who has remade himself into someone else.
		Unfortunately nobility comes with a price for Tom as his family and their idyllic life is torn apart by the very violence that Tom sought to escape.
		A terrific action thriller that allows Cronenberg a much different canvas to work with, "A History of Violence" was justifiably acclaimed and added to 150 "Best of Year" lists.
	www.mediascreen.com /h/historyofviolence.htm (643 words)

	A History of Violence
		With its simple, even archetypal, narrative (forty or fifty years ago, this would've been a Western with hardly a meaningful change made to the story) and bloody highlights, this is ostensibly a straight forward shoot-'em-up (or beat, break and bludgeon-'em-up as the case often is here).
		Some have cited A History of Violence as a departure for the director, a film not indicative of his usual concerns, but that is not the case.
		But A History of Violence gives us an entire family that has had its collective reality obliterated with no alternative but to keep living on in the ashen wake of it.
	www.undertakerslounge.com /violence.htm (941 words)

	History of Violence, A (2005): Reviews
		A masterpiece of indirection and pure visceral thrills, David Cronenberg's latest mindblower, A History of Violence, is the feel-good, feel-bad movie of the year.
		Violence is in the spirit of the hardest-hitting film noir offerings from the '50s, but far more explicit.
		A History of Violence is a hollow story from an empty graphic novel.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/historyofviolence (1765 words)

	A History of Violence: Information on Torture, Fighting, Weapons, and Violence Throughout History
		Whether you are researching a specific instance of violence in history, or you're a writer looking for an exotic way to torture your characters, or you're simply someone looking for information about man's violent history, I hope we have something to interest you.
		No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.
		Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity.
	home.comcast.net /~burokerl/index.htm (321 words)

	A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE - PLATINUM SERIES DVD
		Confounding (astounding) in its ambition, A History of Violence has even larger aspirations, tackling the lie of the myth of the bucolic, prelapsarian small-town with the twisted, literary dread of Ray Bradbury's "Mars is Heaven".
		He's funnier and more cocksure than he's ever been in A History of Violence, a superb comedy of manners and as devastating an indictment of the thin veneer of civilization as Lars Von Trier's Dogville.
		In "Violence's History: U.S. Version Vs. International Version" (1 mins.), Cronenberg explains that since the two cuts differ by a mere couple of shots (compared side-by-side in splitscreen), New Line could hardly justify the expense of putting both of them on the DVD.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/historyofviolence.htm (1140 words)

	Mdeii life: A History of Violence, Sex and the illogic of Indian Censorship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the former (typified in Straw Dogs), the violence builds up, breaks out against the protagonist when he is wronged, then this creates a motive for more 'build-up' and the film ends on a larger-scale orgy of vengeful violence unleashed by the hero.
		Its violence seems to build, but the audience quickly notices that it is actually of the mechanical sustained sort that has been fairly in-your-face since the opening scene.
		The narrative of A History of Violence, thus constantly fights the threat of non-violence because the Viggo Mortensen character (we quickly realise unless we are totally stupid) is actually filled with an almost invincible 'superior' violence since the beginning.
	mdeii.blogspot.com /2006/07/history-of-violence-sex-and-illogic-of.html (1284 words)

	A History of Violence
		A History of Violence is one of the most interesting films to come out in 2005.
		The film functions at two levels -- a character study of trust in a typical nuclear family paired together with escalating action and amazingly choreographed fight scenes as Tom Stall and then his family are threatened by a series of thugs and gangsters.
		For Jack, the knowledge that he is capable of survival through violence is a major and disturbing revelation that he has a very hard time dealing with.
	www.chucksconnection.com /history.html (2097 words)

	Shore: A History of Violence
		A History of Violence is the eleventh film collaboration between Howard Shore and director David Cronenberg; it is amongst the longest-running partnerships between a composer and a director in film.
		"Violence" offers an intriguing trade-off between the score's two main ideas; Shore himself comments in his brief liner notes that he was attempting to create a dialogue between the alto flute (which plays the slightly warmer theme) and french horn (which plays the other one) and this particular cue typifies that.
		A History of Violence is a somewhat brooding and not particularly striking score, but it rewards repeated listening, offering something new to discover every time.
	www.movie-wave.net /titles/history_violence.html (471 words)

	A History of Violence
		Gratuitous violence in films, ever escalating violence which panders to an ever more jaded audience, has become commonplace from a film industry that reprehensibly chases box office receipts regardless of the malefic effects of its products on the fabric of civilized society.
		Covering many bases, Cronenberg touches in one scene on the edge of violence that is part and parcel of sexuality and in another on the roots of violence in sibling rivalry, harking back to Cain and Able.
		Mortensen (Lord of the Rings, 28 Days) is front and center throughout the film and he carries it well enough with understatement; the performance works well for the small town good guy, but doesn't fully convince on the darker underside of the character.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/HistoryofViolence.htm (559 words)

	The Flick Filosopher \| A History of Violence and Derailed
		I knew nothing about A History of Violence before I sat down to watch it, absolutely nothing except that it starred Viggo Mortensen, and that that was enough to make me want to see it.
		I had even managed to avoid hearing that this was a David Cronenberg film, knowledge that certainly would have colored my expectations about it, as would have the knowledge, which I did not have until just before the movie began, that this was based on a graphic novel.
		And of course A History of Violence is only a movie -- but it strikes a chord of authenticity, too, achieving a perfect balance between letting us get lost in its people and story and never letting us forget that this is primarily a movie meant to divert us.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/2005/historyviolence.shtml (715 words)

	A History of Violence (film) Summary
		It is based on a graphic novel (A History of Violence) by John Wagner.
		He saw that this was not the life he wanted and changed his whole persona to getaway from his history of violence.
		"A History of Violence." Rev. of A History of Violence.
	www.bookrags.com /A_History_of_Violence_(film) (1928 words)

	Filmtracks: A History of Violence (Howard Shore)
		A History of Violence: (Howard Shore) The collaboration between director David Cronenberg and composer Howard Shore has now spanned four decades and has surprisingly outlasted Shore's pairing with Lord of the Rings' Peter Jackson, whose role in the firing of Shore from King Kong in late 2005 is murky at best.
		Because A History of Violence is story about the internal fight between good and evil, the job of Howard Shore is a bit more complicated than in the majority of the ten films on which he had worked with Cronenberg.
		The battle in the diner owner's personality, as well its effects on his family, provide a sense of pure heroicism not often heard in Shore's scores for these films, and yet the ominous shadows of the past life also have to be omnipresent.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/history_violence.html (741 words)

	A History of Violence
		In ‘A History of Violence’ David Cronenberg set the stage for the film with an idyllic look at life in the great American Midwest.
		When Edie woke up that faithful morning she could look over at her husband, the father of her children, her lover, with a certainty that this was a good, decent man. After the incident at the diner she realized that we can never really know the past of another.
		When violence erupts and he has to respond in kind we have to wonder what we would do in a similar situation.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /a_history_of_violence.htm (1350 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - A History of Violence (2005)
		As well-worn as their trajectories were, that all three of those films are superior to "A History of Violence" gives one an idea of the level everyone is working on here.
		"A History of Violence" reminds of 2003's "Mystic River" in that it holds a classy A-list sheen and faux attempts at bringing importance to what, in essence, is actually empty-headed and off-puttingly manipulative.
		Where "A History of Violence" goes is nothing special, and where it ultimately culminates is barely worth a footnote.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/h/05_historyofviolence.htm (884 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A History of Violence: DVD: Viggo Mortensen,Maria Bello,William Hurt,Ed Harris,Stephen McHattie,Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With hard-hitting violence that's as sudden as it is graphically authentic, this is A History of Violence that's worthy of serious study and widespread acclaim.
		This is a good movie with a dark story, the violence is quite graphic but not just for the sake of it but more to show the main characters brutality.
		The violence is brutal and sudden, but it is authentic and shockingly real -- Cronenberg apparently got some of the violence from a DVD on the internet which shows you how to kill a man on the street, which he stumbled across.
	www.amazon.co.uk /History-Violence-Viggo-Mortensen/dp/B000E6TVRS (1171 words)

	Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence: Movie Reviews, Photos
		Among 21 films in the main competition was Canadian director David Cronenberg's A History of Violence, starring Viggo Mortensen as a family man fending off mobsters who insist he's a long-lost crony from their past.
		Cronenberg's A History of Violence, featuring Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris and William Hurt, is cast in the mould of an updated version of western transported to a small-town America setting.
		He does not use violence for its own sake, as genre movies so often do, and employs the conventions of the thriller to present a fine study of an individual, a family and an entire society.
	www.brego.net /viggo/movies/history-violence (4124 words)

	Amazon.com: A History of Violence: DVD: David Cronenberg,Viggo Mortensen,Maria Bello,Ed Harris,William Hurt,Ashton ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A History of Violence will remind people that David Cronenberg is one of the more underappreciated film directors of the last 30 years and also one of its master craftsmen.
		In A History of Violence Cronenberg's existentialism continues to show as he probes through the dark and shadowy corners of human behavior and instinct.
		The violence is not your stereotypical action sequence that looks staged, but comes and goes quickly with the brutality and lethality of reality.
	www.amazon.com /History-Violence-David-Cronenberg/dp/B000CQLZ0Q (2898 words)

	A History of Violence
		With his acting career on hiatus and his image in ruins, Gibson seeks to mount a comeback by playing it safe: yes, that's right, the Gibson-produced "Apocalypto" is yet another two-hours-plus epic about the end of the Mayan civilization.
		As a history of Cronenberg, it's a good introductory lecture, detailing his careful composition, mastery of unease and complicated thematic interests.
		A History of Violence is shrewd, penetrating and, yes, entertaining.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/history_of_violence (1231 words)

	IGN: A History of Violence Review
		All of which is why A History of Violence should find a more comfortable home on DVD than it did in theaters.
		Ultimately, A History of Violence is challenging, difficult, and sometimes even painful to watch.
		A History of Violence is presented in anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) preserving the aspect ratio of its theatrical exhibition.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/693/693198p1.html (998 words)

	Movie Review - A History of Violence
		R for strong brutal violence, graphic sexuality, nudity, language and some drug use.
		Even the film's title is a bit misleading, considering that the film appears to be a back-porch apple pie tale set in the middle of the American heartland.
		A History of Violence gives us a very realistic and disturbing look at exactly how complicated things can become when lives are touched by violence.
	www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/2005/historyofviolence.htm (735 words)

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