What's your favourite emotionally devastating movie?
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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.
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Anything like this with kids/families gets me pretty good nowadays
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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.
Man on Fire is one of my favourites and it gets me every time.
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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 Art of Racing in the Rain (and also the book). No matter how many times I watch it, I'm going to cry every time
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Prisoners
I almost gave up during the final chase scene.
Took me three attempts to watch this movie. Absolutely superb.
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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.
Beast of no nation. Watched it once, it was very good, don't need to watch it again.
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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 flew over the cuckoo's nest
- Aftersun
- The father
- Manchester by the sea
- Million dollar baby
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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 Neverending Story
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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.
The movie is an adaptation of the book by Cormac McCarthy. The book won the Pulitzer and the James Tait Memorial Prize.
"Depression Porn without substance" is a funny way to characterize the movie.
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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.
La la land. Not the whole movie but the scene at the end always makes me emotional.
It reminds of my ex, who I spent almost 10 years with. What if our relationship worked out? -
The movie is an adaptation of the book by Cormac McCarthy. The book won the Pulitzer and the James Tait Memorial Prize.
"Depression Porn without substance" is a funny way to characterize the movie.
I'm very aware! I mean it when I say I really don't get it lol.
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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.
Happiness (1998) is extremely dark and very funny at the same time
The War Zone (1999) is relentlessly bleak and uncomfortable
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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
i read never let me go, didn't know there was a film. do you think it's still worth watching with prior knowledge?
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- One flew over the cuckoo's nest
- Aftersun
- The father
- Manchester by the sea
- Million dollar baby
Aftersun is a beautiful and poignant film with excellent dramatic performances by Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio that I will probably never watch again because it's sooooo sad
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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 Whale broke me. And Zone of Interest is also a really hard pill to swallow. First time I was sitting in a fully packed theater and not a single person bought any snacks. We all knew it would be horrible.
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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.
Dear Zachary
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i read never let me go, didn't know there was a film. do you think it's still worth watching with prior knowledge?
I've not read the book but my partner tells me the film is a very good adaption of it and it's worth seeing.
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There was something in Trainspotting that fucked me up so hard I never, ever went near that movie again.
And it's not explicitly a horror movie, so valid in this context.
Trainspotting csme to mind for me too. The violence in that movie is emotionally devastating but its not emotionally devastating for the human interactions & relstionships so it doesnt make my 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.
Reprise by Lars von Trier. Probably my favourite movie but I struggle to explain why.
Honorouble mentions:
- THE IRONCLAW! It's not the most emotionally devaststing for me but it was for a lot of people who saw it. To me it is really special though because it's a beautifully simple film and you sit right there alongside Von Erich as he walks through different stsges of his life. You feel everything.
- That irish schoolboy rugby romance - Handsome Devil, i think its called
- The Whale
Least favourite emotionally defastating movies:
The Devil All The Time and "Love Story"
