Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Blood. Sex. Cronenberg.

If you haven't seen it yet, you should. A History of Violence is the closest thing to a masterpiece in the last decade. I saw it a few years back and found myself writing an essay about the adaption for my professor/mentor Diane Lake, co-writer of Frida, this semester. I've fallen in love with the film all over again. Some argue that the sex scenes are gratuitous, but I argue that those folks don't understand Cronenberg or how much sex says about the type of relationship these characters have (and more importantly how it changes throughout the film). Check it out!

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