What's your favourite emotionally devastating movie?
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When I say 'favourite', I mean it's the most compelling, devastating, truthful movie I've ever seen that I was transfixed by for it's entire duration, and never want to see again.
I've been on job seeker's allowance. I've suffered the indignity of the weekly visits to the job centre to be sneered at for not applying for an adequate number of jobs, of for not just accepting the first shitty delivery jobs on the list. But I was lucky enough to be healthy. I can't imagine having to deal with all that shit while also being sick.
Being in that situation right now - damn, I don't think I could watch it.
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The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven't been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.
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The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven't been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.
I would say Grave of the Fireflies, but like a lot of people I've never wanted to watch it again so I'm not sure if I could say it's my favourite.
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The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven't been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.
The Road
The only truly realistic post-apocalyptic movie.
There is no hope. There is no humanity pulling together in times of crisis.
Just one man trying to keep his son and himself alive for another day, after losing everything else. -
The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven't been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.
Nobody mentioned Requiem For a Dream yet?
I guess I'm getting old
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Requiem for a Dream. Aronofsky is a legend and totally up my alley but this and a couple other films he has done I only have the energy to watch once.
I'm sure there are others, but in my brainhole this one sure is a headliner for such a question.
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Being in that situation right now - damn, I don't think I could watch it.
Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it. I mean, it's a beautiful, powerful film, but yeah.
Here's hoping your fortunes improve x
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The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven't been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.
One Hour Photo always stuck with me. Sy is an extremely sympathetic villain that my heart just broke for the entire film.
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The Road
The only truly realistic post-apocalyptic movie.
There is no hope. There is no humanity pulling together in times of crisis.
Just one man trying to keep his son and himself alive for another day, after losing everything else.Maybe I just didn't give it enough of a chance, but I really just didn't get this film honestly. For me it just felt like a sort of 'depression porn' without really much substance to it.
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Tough call to just choose one.
Dead Man
Pan's Labyrinth
Human Nature
Dead Man is incredible, love seeing it occasionally get the recognition it deserves.
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The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven't been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.
Everything Everywhere All At Once. I watch it every year and I pretend I'm a different character every time. I'm in my Waymond phase now. Watch it from his point of view when you're ready.
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The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven't been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.
Prisoners
I almost gave up during the final chase scene.
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The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven't been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.
The first 5 minutes of Up. Cutting onions every time.
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Requiem for a Dream. Aronofsky is a legend and totally up my alley but this and a couple other films he has done I only have the energy to watch once.
What makes it worse for me is there was an old channel 4 advert that kad clips from lots of movies and the names of the movies in the current roster.
I thought the names matched the clips.. and requiem for a dream appeared alongside a film I've not actually identified with a guy shooting over a limo saying something like "death to some thing something and bad cinema"
So a few years later I finally sit down to watch requiem for a dream expecting some weird Hollywood critic (or something)
Kept waiting for that scene until things got really dark and then kind of knew something was amiss.
On the upside: no heroine for me thanks
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The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven't been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.
君の名は。 (your name.) — the first big twist. When ya boy Taki first sets foot on the school (as himself) and looks at the lake and you realise what the movie's been doing this whole time.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine did it like 15-20 years prior (and I loved that episode) but I never saw it coming. You go back and watch, and the movie kinda slaps you with a fresh fish with the clues, especially the date where he and his coworker are looking at all the photos. Camera stays there a good little while, too. Like damn. Stevie Wonder coulda saw that twist coming. But I was captivated by the beauty of the film. And the music.
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The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven't been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.
Interstellar and Arrival
The scene where cooper watches his kids grow up and get kids of their own in like 5 minutes always gets me. -
The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven't been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.
Waves is an insane ride of a movie. So many emotions and so many great performances. The directing and editing are really impressive as well.
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The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven't been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.
Powder
Schindler's List
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The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven't been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.
Strangely these are my favourite kind of films, as there is something cathartic about emerging from an emotional roller coaster. These films have stayed me with long after:
- Irreversible
- 21 Grams
- Never Let Me Go
- Burning
- First Reformed
- The Long Walk
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I would say Grave of the Fireflies, but like a lot of people I've never wanted to watch it again so I'm not sure if I could say it's my favourite.
To this day I've watched it once and I'll never forget.
