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"Straw Dogs" was a Sam Peckinpah movie. I don't think I've seen one since. "Clockwork Orange" was Stanley Kubrick and it was also super-violent, but it didn't bother me as much - I thought it was all about its own violence and was therefore rather stupid and tiresome. By contrast, "Straw Dogs" was upsetting because it actually had what started out as a somewhat normal story, then turned into something else entirely through a process that seemed all too plausible. Shudder.
After all that, we watched "Truly, Madly, Deeply" instead - it turned out to be one of those terribly understated BBC films that took a while to get into, but was quite good in the end.
The CPBBofC (CrockPot Bourbon Breast of Chicken) was, as always, wonderful.
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