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Originally Posted by batreleaser

the reason eastern promises and history of violence were so great is because cronenberg directed them, a lot of crime films these days are watered down, dull, the same shit over and over again. guys like miike and cronenberg however are like fuck that, the life of crime is a dark and uigly existence, theres nothing fun about it, its fucked up, gross at times, and ultimately very very horrible. guys who work in organized crime are ultimately sociopathic, bad, people. and thats what cronenberg did with those two films.

yes. and "jimmy" was trying to get away from it.

by the way, the opening scene in history of violence, which people tend to forget in favor of the quasi-rape sex scene, is fucking awesome. in the dvd extras he shows how they shot it. brilliant.