The film begins with a killing that saves the process. Two murderous thugs kill shop employees, even the little girl. Such two murderous villains make the film full of emotional appeal and tension at the beginning, and instantly enter the play. This is a typical opening line for a movie about evil and violence, including those homicidal horror movies, but I didn't expect that these two villains only exist to set off the superb killing skills of the male protagonist Tom and serve as the fuse of the whole story. Just got a box lunch. All the violent scenes in the film are fast and restrained. Just like Tom always trying to hide his past, he can do as little action as he can. This is also the characteristic of the action scenes in Cronenberg's films, even in "The Promise of the East". Nude hand-to-hand combat in the public bathroom is always accompanied by restraint and forbearance. The real moment of releasing the violent factor in this film is the paragraph in which Tom and his former wife had sex in a state of anger after they found out that he was violent at home. Sex continued the violence and completely released the violence. Sex is a reasonable outlet for violence. After seeing his father kill the first two villains in his own coffee shop, the son also changed from forbearance in the face of bullies to violence in school. And the son also shot the one-eyed gangster who came to the door with a gun. The elements of violence spread in this mild family in the past, but such violent output is an extremely necessary tool to punish evil and promote good. This is still an old topic of using violence to control violence, but when Tom learned that his son had taught bullies at school, he expressed his stance on the violence of others, that is, rejecting violence, but he responded with a slap in the face" disobedient" son. Violence is ubiquitous and often rationalized into self-preservation and justice. Tom is well aware of the dangers of unleashing violence, exemplified by himself, his past, and his heroic killings in coffee shops, all contributing to the present embarrassment. This is an unsolvable dilemma. If you want to abandon violence, violence will be used, and using violence will become the only option. This can't help but remind me of all the arguments about self-defense. In the end, Tom single-handedly killed all the gangsters, and returned home to face a peaceful family and dinner. Violence solved the problem, and the family was safe. Is there anything better than this?
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