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A History of Violence<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2005)<\/p>\n When one of the waitresses working for Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is threatened, Tom kills her attackers and becomes a local celebrity. This attention brings Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris) to town, convinced Tom is Joey Cusack, a former associate in the Irish Mob<\/a>. The truth of\u00a0Tom’s past threatens to destroy his family.<\/p>\n To his credit, Viggo Mortensen has used the success of the Lord of the Rings<\/a>\u00a0to focus on smaller films, more personal films.<\/p>\n Maria Bello who plays Tom’s wife, Edie, is a solid background performer but has yet to breakthrough to more mainstream success.<\/p>\n From Christof<\/a>\u00a0to Jackson Pollock<\/a>\u00a0to John McCain<\/a>, Ed Harris is always dependable, including as a mob enforcer here.<\/p>\n William Hurt was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor<\/a>, but it feels like the nomination was given\u00a0out of\u00a0respect for his previous work.\u00a0 He’s underused and didn’t make a connection with me in his brief role as Richie Cusack.<\/p>\n David Cronenberg established a distinct visual style in a series of existential horror films in the 1980s including\u00a0Videodrome<\/em> (1983) and\u00a0The Fly\u00a0<\/em>(1986). His later career has been less focused on disturbing visual effects, but the underlying themes are the same: existential angst and the overwhelming desire for identity and purpose.<\/p>\n This is a decent movie about a man trying to escape from the actions of\u00a0his past, but doesn’t have anything fresh to say.\u00a0 Cronenberg’s earlier films were often messy, but at least they were interesting; this listless film doesn’t feel like it was made with a lot of passion, although I’m curious to read the original graphic novel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A History of Violence\u00a0(2005) When one of the waitresses working for Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is threatened, Tom kills her attackers and becomes a local celebrity. This attention brings Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris) to town, convinced Tom is Joey Cusack, a former associate in the Irish Mob. The truth of\u00a0Tom’s past threatens to destroy… Continue reading A violent biography<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,208,507,867,891],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-progress","tag-adaptations","tag-david-cronenberg","tag-maria-bello","tag-viggo-mortensen","tag-william-hurt","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14784,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/14784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}