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A History Of Violence

A History of Violence

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In the middle of the night young Sarah (Heidi Hayes) wakes from a nightmare. Her father, Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) comforts her saying, "There are no such thing as monsters"¦" Director David Cronenberg's "A History of Violence" questions whether human monsters are truly born or trained to be so. Based on a graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, Josh Olson's screenplay offers a provocative answer.

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This movie is a brilliant social commentary bringing the question of "nature" or "nurture" to its ultimate head. Are violent people born that way or created by society? The answer is not a important as the other questions this movie brings to the forefront. Viggo Mortensen is brilliant, though I kept picturing him in woodsman garb with longer hair and a beard fighting with the elves. Movie will make you think and keep you changing you views as it confronts a mans past and crosses it with his future, deciding which fated path he will take now.

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A History of Violence - Tom Stall is a loving family man and well-respected citizen of a small Indiana town. But when two savage criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a hero who took the courage to stand up to crime, people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all that media attention has the likes of mobsters showing up at his doorstep, charging that Tom is someone else for whom they"ve been looking. Is it a case of mistaken identity, or does Tom have a history that no one knows about? Either way, someone's about to find out if there's a history of violence.