Explaining Film on Instagram: "Bronson (2008) is a British biographical crime drama directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Tom Hardy in a breakout role as Michael Peterson, a real-life prisoner who adopted the alias Charles Bronson and became notorious as one of Britain’s most violent inmates. Presented in a highly stylized, theatrical manner with surreal elements and dark humor, the film explores Peterson’s life from a minor crime that leads to incarceration through his escalating confronta

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