Kevin wrote:
"I found Croneberg's HISTORY OF VIOLENCE vaguely
disappointing (although I seem to recall I liked the graphic
novel)"
You might not want to reread the graphic novel if you have
fond memories of it. I did just that before seeing the movie
(which I also found vaguely disappointing, thought it had
some great elements, especially its detailing of the
breakdown of the marriage), and it did not hold up. In fact,
Cronenberg was right to jettison the last third to half of
the graphic novel with SPOILER ALERT the guy who had been
kept alive for almost 20 years to be tortured and have body
parts cut off, now just a trunk and head, begging the hero to
put him out of his misery. Come on. Although the sibling
stuff Cronenberg replaced it with didn't quite come off,
either.
Mark
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