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Following an argument with his father over the use of violence on a bully at his school, Jack runs away. He is caught by Carl, who, with Jack as his hostage, goes with his men to the Stall house and demands that "Joey" return to Philadelphia with them. After the gangsters release Jack, Tom is slow to join them in their car, so they attempt to force him to cooperate. Tom kills the two henchmen with the same precision he used against the robbers, but Carl shoots Tom before he can do the same to him. As the gangster stands over Tom, preparing to kill him, Tom finally drops the faade and admits he is indeed Joey. However, before Carl can deliver a coup de grce, Jack kills him with a shotgun.

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of 216 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.90/10. The website's consensus reads: "A History of Violence raises compelling and thoughtful questions about the nature of violence, while representing a return to form for director David Cronenberg in one of his more uncharacteristic pieces."[17] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 82 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[18] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.[19]

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Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called the film a "mindblower", and noted Cronenberg's "refusal to let us indulge in movie violence without paying a price".[22] Roger Ebert also gave the film a positive review, observing, "A History of Violence seems deceptively straightforward, coming from a director with Cronenberg's quirky complexity, but think again. This is not a movie about plot, but about character." He gave it three and a half out of four stars.[14]

Is Canadian director David Cronenberg the most unsung maverick artist in movies? Bet on it ... Cronenberg knows violence is wired into our DNA. His film showed how we secretly crave what we publicly condemn. This is potent poison for a thriller, and unadulterated, unforgettable Cronenberg.[27]

This chapter summarises the main themes of the book, placing individual chapters within diverse thematic frameworks. After a brief discussion of the evolution of human violence, it introduces the Palaeolithic and Neolithic beginnings of human violence before examining prehistoric and ancient warfare. This includes considerations of the role of farming in the Neolithic, the more specialised warfare of the Bronze and Iron Ages, the era of classical antiquity and the growing importance of osteoarchaeology in understanding early violence. The discussion then continues with the other themes of the volume: intimate and collective violence; religion, ritual and violence; violence, crime and the state; and representations and constructions of violence.

David Cronenberg says his title "A History of Violence" has three levels: It refers (1) to a suspect with a long history of violence; (2) to the historical use of violence as a means of settling disputes, and (3) to the innate violence of Darwinian evolution, in which better-adapted organisms replace those less able to cope. "I am a complete Darwinian," says Cronenberg, whose new film is in many ways about the survival of the fittest -- at all costs.

But what is Cronenberg saying about Tom, or Joey? Which life is the real one? The nature of Joey's early life was established by the world he was born into. His second life was created by conscious choice. Which is dominant, nature or nurture? Hyde, or Jekyll? Are we kidding ourselves when we think we can live peacefully? Is our peace purchased at the price of violence done elsewhere? In "A History of Violence," it all comes down to this: If Tom Stall had truly been the cheerful small-town guy he pretended to be, he would have died in that diner. It was Joey who saved him. And here is the crucial point: Because of Joey, the son Jack, makes discoveries about himself that he might not have ever needed (or wanted) to make.

There are other reasons why violence became a greater focus for public health. The risk of homicide and suicide reached epidemic proportions during the 1980s among specific segments of the population including youth and members of minority groups. Suicide rates among adolescents and young adults 15 to 24 years of age almost tripled between 1950 and 1990 [3]. Similarly, from 1985 to 1991 homicide rates among 15- to 19-year-old males increased 154 percent, a dramatic departure from rates of the previous 20 years for this age group [4]. This increase was particularly acute among young African American males. These trends raised concerns and provoked calls for new solutions.

Further evidence of increased concern from the public health community during the 1980s was provided by the Surgeon General's Workshop on Violence and Public Health in 1985 [9]. This workshop was the first time that the Surgeon General clearly recognized violence as a public health problem and encouraged all health professionals to respond.

During the same period, the CDC undertook a number of high-profile epidemiologic investigations, looking into a series of child murders in Atlanta and a suicide cluster in Plano, Texas [10, 11]. These investigations helped to demonstrate that epidemiologic research methods could successfully be applied to incidents of violence. Public health professionals contributed to the understanding of violence through the use of epidemiologic methods to characterize the problem and identify modifiable risk factors. In particular, efforts were made to: (1) describe the problem of homicide and suicide as causes of death, (2) monitor public health objectives for homicide and suicide, (3) examine epidemiologic characteristics of different types of homicide, (4) characterize homicide as a cause of death in the workplace, (5) describe patterns of homicide and suicide victimization in minority populations and among children, (6) study physical child abuse, and (7) quantify the risks of homicide and suicide associated with access to firearms [12-14].

As we move into the 21st century, public health is placing greater emphasis on disseminating and implementing effective violence-prevention programs and policies. The need to document and monitor the problem and identify effective programs and policies through research remains critically important. Nevertheless, a strong foundation has been laid for future success.

Linda L. Dahlberg, PhD is the associate director for science in the Division of Violence Prevention in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. In addition to serving as a senior science and policy advisor, she coordinates international research and programmatic activities for the division. Her research focuses on the etiology of firearm injuries as well as the efficacy of interventions to prevent interpersonal and self-directed violence.

James A. Mercy, PhD is the special advisor for strategic directions of the Division of Violence Prevention in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He received his doctorate in sociology from Emory University in Atlanta. His research focuses on understanding the health burden, causes, and prevention of child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, youth violence, and firearm injuries.

There have been few major transitions in political history that have not involved violence. Riots, rebellions, and revolutions all contain (and perhaps even require) elements of political violence. Scholarly discourse on political history must, therefore, acknowledge the politics of violence. As a political language, violence has expressed and altered outcomes in intense political eras, particularly among oppressed and marginalized people. It is important that educators understand the power behind political violence and the ideology behind the justification. My goal has been to explore examples of the successes and failures of political violence in history. My hope is that students will, in the process, have a greater understanding of class and political struggles as well as global activism. I contend that the best practices for this are three fold.

First, educators can best communicate the importance of political violence in world history by understanding and discussing the difference between "violence" and "force." While the two terms seem interchangeable, it is useful and instructive to show the distinctions. For example, several African Americans sitting at a segregated lunch counter in the South in 1960 were able to exert enormous and persuasive force on the public mind, without using violence (as the terms are normally understood). Nonviolent anticolonial movements in India, which were based on "truth-force" as envisaged by Mohandas Gandhi, and the forceful but predominantly nonviolent civil rights movement in the United States led by Martin Luther King Jr., are examples from the past that illustrate this distinction. The more recent, essentially nonviolent regime change effected in Egypt by ordinary, unarmed people is a similar case from contemporary history. On the other hand, the many civil wars that have racked the countries in Africa in the past half century or so, or the urban rioting (mostly of young immigrants) that afflicted the cities of Europe in the same period are, clearly, manifestations of violence intended to secure social, political, and economic changes as well as freedom from discrimination and disenfranchisement. That is, whether manifested as nonviolent force or actual violence, the two political strategies essentially have the same goals.

Second, in posing the question of how violence should be understood, it is most important to view violence, politically speaking, as symptomatic. In my classroom, I encourage my students to discuss the implications of violence as a political language in their studies. In teaching major historical narratives such as those about the Haitian Revolution or the historical evolution of Apartheid in South Africa, I want my students to understand how oppressed peoples have resorted to the methods of violence to secure political change. I point out that violence as a political language can be manifested not only in acts, but in speeches, writings, and even in the arts. Moreover, discussing political violence in history reveals both the capacity and, in many ways, its incapacity to produce the desired change. I also pose the question: "If violence can ever be made legitimate, what makes it so?" In other words, if we can ask, "why violence?" we must also be willing to ask "why not?" Even Mohandas Gandhi stated, "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." Discussion of violence in political history thus compels us to ask as well the harder questions of motive and morality. 006ab0faaa