A History of Violence

I really liked this one. The story is told straight almost skinned to the bone. The characters are all over the top but believable and most of all the mis-en-scene of the violence featured here is brilliant. Though there are some funny lines here and there and some characters seem to be borrowed from the early Coen-Brothers oeuvre the killings are pretty realistic and grim and nothing to cheer at. A lot of dead bodies are shown in a very banal way so that the movies sometimes looks like a documentary about murder. Another great thing about AHOV is, that it's narrative is 90% about the life of average people and the rest is some kind of a perverted action-flick in every gory detail.