Bronson

“The Man. The Myth. The Celebrity.”

Michael Peterson (Tom Hardy) goes into a British prison for robbing a post office, a seven-year sentence, and then takes hostages and starts fights until the seven years become thirty, most of them in solitary. Nicolas Winding Refn shows him inventing a second self, Charles Bronson, who talks straight to the audience from a stage. Behind the performer sits a man who has found that violence is the only thing anyone has ever wanted to watch him do.