These questions about violence seem interesting. I would just like to throw Mike Leigh's _Naked_ into the list. It reminded me of Edward Bond's _Saved_: Bond is a playwright who says (in his introduction to _Lear_, a far more brutal and vicious version of the Shakespeare play) that he "writes about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners." Also I wondered about comparisons with Camus' _L'Etranger_. Sorry for the literariness of this post (:. Jon