It is still wild to me that A History of Violence is technically a DC movie.
If you had timed things perfectly back in the fall of 2005, you could have walked out of Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins and walked right into David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence. Both were distributed by Warner Bros. and adapted from DC properties. But while Batman was busy restarting the superhero blockbuster machine, Cronenberg was using a graphic novel to deconstruct what violence actually does to the human soul.
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