The Hard Truth Of VIOLATION Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s revenge thriller digs two graves. By Meredith Borders · @xymarla · April 2, 2021, 1:10 AM EDT Madeleine Sims-Fewer in VIOLATION. “We’re complicated people. Nobody’s simple.” Violation is definitely not the first film to examine the toll revenge takes on the one who is seeking it – Memento, Blue Ruin and the aptly titled Dig Two Graves have all recently been successful at just such an endeavor – but there’s something especially intimate and harrowing about the idea here, a relentless pull that drags the viewer down right along with its avenger. The film, from writers/directors Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer (who also stars), is uncomfortably confidential right from the start. We’re riding with Miriam (Sims-Fewer) and her husband Caleb (Obi Abili) through stunning countryside to something of a family reunion. Nothing here is as peaceful as that sounds – Miriam and Caleb are cold and distant, and once they meet up with Miriam’s sister Greta (Anna Maguire) and brother-in-law Dylan (Jesse LaVercombe), the sisters’ warm greeting soon turns agitated and laden.