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...team’s impetuous driver links “Munich” to a rich tradition of spy cinema (and the team’s Rube Goldberg-esque bombs are more than a little reminiscent of Q’s gadgets).Taking a cue from David Cronenberg??s recent film “A History of Violence”—which similarly explored the toll violence exacts on its practitioners—Spielberg depicts gun violence in all of its goriness: exit wounds, blood splatters, and charred flesh. This verisimilitude, combined with the knowledge that...
...Cronenberg??s film is the story of Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen), who, in a pulse-pounding action set-piece, violently defends his all-American diner and family from psychotic drifters. The wake of his actions—resulting in national publicity—dredges up some evil men from Tom’s past, among them the terrifying Carl (Ed Harris) and hypnotic Richie (William Hurt). They know Tom Stall as Joey Cusack, a murderer from Philadelphia who owes them big and mysteriously vanished prior to Stall’s arrival in small-town Americana...
...Cronenberg??s desire to meditate on these problems demanded a special cast. Casting is, he realizes, “a very difficult process, a kind of black art,” because of the inherent subjectivity of an actor’s suitability for a role. The casting was a hurdle made even more difficult by the idiosyncratic nature of the project and the director...
Mortensen used Cronenberg??s trust to create one of the more indelible portraits of the year, as a man haunted by America’s dichotomy of peaceful coexistence and righteous anger. It is a combination beautifully portrayed in the two painfully intimate sex scenes between Mortensen and on-screen wife Maria Bello, which take place before and after the question of his identity is raised...
...pretty remarkable,” Schneider says. “It’s a film that from the outside looks like it’s gotta be horror, but really it’s an intense psycho drama which has a lot of [eXistenZ director] David Cronenberg??s influences...
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