I had a discussion about the staircase scene in the david cronenberg movie history of violence The different views change the characters and reading of the movie It also calls into question what was the directors intentions and did they miss the mark One view saw the scene as sexual coercion resulting in rape The scene reinforces the harmful idea that women are turned on by violence The first scene is full of love and happiness while the second is confusing, violent, and real
The second sex scene occurs much later in the film and is, symbolically, initiated by the male, tom, and is brutal, painful and violent Rather than being consensual, this is a rape scene, as tom forces edie to have sex on the most uncomfortable setting imaginable When you show the sex scene after the shootings, the intoxicating effect of the violence affects how they have sex with each other—as opposed to before it was revealed If you see the movie a second time, it becomes a different movie and only then can you really appreciate viggo’s performance fully because we were conscious of making two movies at once and it had to work both ways—for. A history of violence (2005) and eastern promises (2007) are arguably his most mainstream films, both were critically revered and got award season buzz as well as nominations.
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