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.
Lilya 4-ever. So sad. So excellent...
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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.
Holy fuck The Whale. I rarely get emotional for sad movies and usually my eyes well up at most but The Whale opened the flood gates. Watched it at the movie theaters and remember the credits rolling in silence while everyone is sniffling and sobbing. Cried on the way home too. I bought it on blu ray and have not worked up the courage to rewatch it.
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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.
cheers, i'll give it a go
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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.
Leaving Las Vagas
Then La La Land
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Powder is such a unique choice - not one many probably even remember.
Saw it in theater way back. Oddly, the power went out midway through.
It was touching.
It's one of my favorites, that's awesome you got to see it in theater
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The breakfast scene in that movie (happiness). Just ..... Fuck.
it's full of those sort of sinking feelings but that's a grim one
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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.
Bridge to Terabithia
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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.
There's a horror movie about a couple that kidnaps and tortures who they thought killed their child only to find out it was the wrong person and the person unalives themself. The whole movie though was them going back and forth on their morality/justification for committing the torture. Don't recall the name.
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To this day I've watched it once and I'll never forget.
I've forgotten a lot of the plot but I'll never forget the feeling at the end. It was just this big empty pit in my stomach, I felt so empty. I often wonder if this is perhaps one of the greatest films I've ever watched, because no other film has even come close to making me feel whatever that was. But again, I don't want to go back and test this theory.
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Bridge to Terabithia
Screws you up out of nowhere
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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.
Battle Royale (original Japanese version). The plot and development is horrifying in its own right, and after it ends and the credits rolled, the class picture is shown. It's absolutely gutting (I bawled - I have never cried after a psychological horror film before or since this 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.
The Secret Of Nimh
Requiem For A Dream
Dancer In The Dark
Grave Of The Fireflies
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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.
into the wild.
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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.
Here's one not everyone will already know:
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Have you seen some of the other film adaptations? Or read the novels?
- All the Pretty Horses
- No Country for Old Men
- The Counselor
- Child of God
I've seen No Country for Old Men, unfortunately nothing else from your list. I did enjoy that one.
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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.
SLC Punk.
Such a fun movie all the way through then suddenly WHAM. Reality just slaps you in the face. -
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.
Favourite in the sense that they ripped me up by the emotional gonads and I thought the movie was really good:
The broken circle breakdown
La haine
The whale
Secrets and lies
The grey zone -
The first 5 minutes of Up. Cutting onions every time.
If you haven't, you might give Blush (2021) a try.
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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.
It is absolutely depression porn.
