Un uomo mite diventa un eroe locale grazie a un episodio di violenza, che scatena ripercussioni che sconvolgeranno la sua famiglia.Un uomo mite diventa un eroe locale grazie a un episodio di violenza, che scatena ripercussioni che sconvolgeranno la sua famiglia.Un uomo mite diventa un eroe locale grazie a un episodio di violenza, che scatena ripercussioni che sconvolgeranno la sua famiglia.
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- QuizFor the sex scene on the stairs, David Cronenberg was concerned about the two actors getting hurt on the hard wooden steps. He asked his stunt man whether or not he had any stunt pads to soften up the stairs. The stunt man laughed, saying that in the twenty years he had been working as a stunt man, no director had ever asked him for stunt pads for a sex scene. Pads were not used for most of the scene however, and in the shot when Edie is naked on the bed with bruises visible on her back, make-up was used to hide the amount of bruises that Maria Bello received from the scene.
- BlooperIn the high school softball game, the bully comes up to the plate carrying a wooden bat, but the sound heard when he hits the ball is the sound of an aluminum bat.
- Citazioni
[last lines]
Richie Cusack: [Joey holds a gun to Richie's head] Jesus, Joey.
Tom Stall: [as Joey shoots Richie in the head, then stands over his dead body] Jesus, Richie.
- Versioni alternativeThere are some minute differences between the US and the International version when it comes to some of the violent scenes:
- Fogarty's thug, who gets his nose smashed into his skull has more blood spurt out in the International version in the shot where he is dying on the ground.
- When Joey stomps on Richie's thug's throat, he spits blood (instead of it 'welling up') and the sound effect of the neck breaking is louder. Both shots last the same length of time and use the same take, the amount of blood was simply toned down digitally for the MPAA. Most video versions outside the U.S. use the 'international version' but the shots appear in the supplements on the U.S. DVD (In the featurette titled 'Violence's History', Cronenberg shows the U.S. and international cut scenes side by side and explains the reason why there wasn't a standard 'unrated' version in the U.S. was because the changes were so small).
- ConnessioniEdited into A History of Violence: Deleted Scene - Scene 44 (2006)
Recensione in evidenza
This is, like all Cronenberg's work, a mythic movie. It occupies the world of "monsters" that Tom Stall's daughter dreams about at the start. It's as if we get to see the little girl's nightmare as the film unfolds. It's because of this poetic, super-real quality that criticisms from the "this isn't real life" brigade have no relevance. The screenplay is exceptionally tight and well-woven - no image is wasted. The subplot of the son's troubles with a school bully parallels the main plot. The very existence of the son is there to show the inheritance - the history - of violence. The sex scenes are there to show the proximity of lust and violence. The end can be nothing other than what it is: as someone else on IMDb has commented, the genie is out of the bottle. This is true for the family in the film, the society we see surrounding the family, and it's true for our families and our society. It's about the inexhaustible rage of humans. It couldn't be more relevant, it couldn't be more timeless. It is well acted and beautifully photographed. I have some minor reservations - did we really need so much of Howard Shore's music? - but on the whole I think this is a superb film. Not for the kiddies, however.
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- Data di uscita
- Paesi di origine
- Sito ufficiale
- Lingua
- Celebre anche come
- Una historia violenta
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Aziende produttrici
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- Budget
- 32.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 31.504.633 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 364.000 USD
- 25 set 2005
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 61.385.065 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 36 minuti
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1
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