David Cronenberg is a filmmaker who enjoys making out-of-this-world films containing gruesome violence and sexual content, such as Crash (1997), Scanners, and Videodrome. A History Of Violence (based on the 1997 graphic novel of the same name) also contains bloody violence and sex but is one of the director's quieter films due to the subtleness and sensitivity in its characters. It is simply structured but contains complex moral themes, such as the nature of violence and what causes people to become violent towards others.