Screening Log

This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.

January 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 67

Total Comments: 30

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A History of Violence / USA / 2005

It’s almost easy to ignore the gun in the Stall household. That is one of the images that sticks in my mind, a few days after finally seeing this film. While Tom races…well, hobbles home, believing the mob are heading toward his family, his wife goes in the closet and readies the shotgun. The camera follows and holds on it after it is placed on a table as the family realizes they are safe, at least from Ed Harris and his cronies. Watching the son linger and pick up the gun I felt queasy, and much more so as the film progressed. I’m not sure if the history is so much national as it is familial and intimate, but at the same time I see how (at least in this film) fathers appear to pass down an inherent talent at being brutal, and how so many American families accept a gun in their homes, if not perpetuating violence then expecting it at their door.

by Jenny Jediny | Source: 35MM Theatrical Print
15 Jan 2006 7:57 PM | Submit Comment

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