The man I used to be

A History of Violence

(2005)

Hard to watch in so many ways (yes, definitely including the episode on the stairway). About all I have energy to say tonight is that I have no idea what a real person would do upon discovering that the man's she'd known and loved for the better part of two decades had been, before that, not just someone she didn't know but someone she'd never have wanted to know, someone she'd have avoided at all costs, and someone she'd have done everything she could to keep her children away from (children fathered, of course, by the man she did know, or thought she knew), but if anyone could imbue the role with all the confusion of this sentence any better than Maria Bello does here, I'd sure like to see it (yes, including in the episode on the stairway, but perhaps most economically and most beautifully in the final dinner-table scene).