Bleakest Film You've Ever Seen?
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mentalchik
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Dubversion said:
Yup, another vote for this film !
Wicked film though, had to conciously unclench my jaw at the end !
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I felt pretty bleak myself after watching this pile of utter shit.Magneze said:
Another vote for 'Nil By Mouth' here. Superb film. As was '21 Grams'.
I also found 'Love Actually' utterly depressing too. Depressing that a film that awful yet so liked by so many could actually exist. Ditto 'Forrest Gump'. Both these films left me desloate and acutely aware of how far we have sunk as a species.
I also found 'Love Actually' utterly depressing too. Depressing that a film that awful yet so liked by so many could actually exist. Ditto 'Forrest Gump'. Both these films left me desloate and acutely aware of how far we have sunk as a species.
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icepick said:
'Happiness' turned my stomach. I know that was kind of the point, but I had to give up watching as soon as I realised the paedo was going to get up to something horrible with his son's friend. I just don't need to watch that kind of thing, thank you very much.
trabuquera
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Three which are certainly brilliant, but very bleak:
Pixote (Hector Babenco) - Brazilian street kid's odyssey through reform school, the urban underworld, etc ...
Amores Perros (Inarritu) - a very polished, arty, well-plotted movie with a strong sense of ethics, but the god's-eye-view of the characters is chilly and detached...
Lilya 4 Ever (Moodysson) - a film which reflects some (but only some) of the living hell that is being a trafficked underage sex worker from Eastern Europe. It ruthlessly tugs every thread of human empathy you might have left.
and one which isn't really very brilliant at all (except for the art direction), but which certainly bummed me out for days: serial killer blockbuster SEVEN. (or Se7en if you wish to be pedantic.)
Pixote (Hector Babenco) - Brazilian street kid's odyssey through reform school, the urban underworld, etc ...
Amores Perros (Inarritu) - a very polished, arty, well-plotted movie with a strong sense of ethics, but the god's-eye-view of the characters is chilly and detached...
Lilya 4 Ever (Moodysson) - a film which reflects some (but only some) of the living hell that is being a trafficked underage sex worker from Eastern Europe. It ruthlessly tugs every thread of human empathy you might have left.
and one which isn't really very brilliant at all (except for the art direction), but which certainly bummed me out for days: serial killer blockbuster SEVEN. (or Se7en if you wish to be pedantic.)
Sedgley Warrior
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Agree with 'Nil By Mouth' and 'Threads' - very bleak
Juice Terry
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Rosetta
As bleak as it gets, young girl growing up in a trailer park in a grey belgian shithole of a town with an alcoholic prostitute for a mum. Her biggest aspiration in life is getting a job selling waffles in a bus station. Soul destroying stuff.
As bleak as it gets, young girl growing up in a trailer park in a grey belgian shithole of a town with an alcoholic prostitute for a mum. Her biggest aspiration in life is getting a job selling waffles in a bus station. Soul destroying stuff.
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Louloubelle
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Last Roar of the Taiga?
if you want to:
see what a man looks like once a tiger has eaten him and left only his ankle and (very bizzarely) the edges of his skin clinging to his clothes that have frozen in to the the shape of a person
see a tiger trapped in a shed while angry farmers take shots at her until you see her bleeding and convulsing in her final moments
see the dead bodies of 2 tiger cubs that have starved to death, next to the body of a pet dog, brought as food, too late by their mother
hear a widow talk of how her beloved son was eaten by a tiger and how her husband committed suicide through guilt at not having killed the tiger the first time it ate one of their neighours
hear impoverished russians describe their hatred for tigers and how they see them as vermin
share the experience of a russian hunter as he takes a camcorder with him on his journey to hunt the man-eating tiger that nearly kills him (the animal attacks him as one of his colleagues is shooting the film and dies on top of him with his gun in it's throat)
relentless snow, endless hunger, both for tigers and for people as they compete for ever diminishing resources in a barren, inhospitable landscape
Possibly the most depressing film I've ever seen, but also a magnificent and incredible film that people should watch and try to understand IMO
if you want to:
see what a man looks like once a tiger has eaten him and left only his ankle and (very bizzarely) the edges of his skin clinging to his clothes that have frozen in to the the shape of a person
see a tiger trapped in a shed while angry farmers take shots at her until you see her bleeding and convulsing in her final moments
see the dead bodies of 2 tiger cubs that have starved to death, next to the body of a pet dog, brought as food, too late by their mother
hear a widow talk of how her beloved son was eaten by a tiger and how her husband committed suicide through guilt at not having killed the tiger the first time it ate one of their neighours
hear impoverished russians describe their hatred for tigers and how they see them as vermin
share the experience of a russian hunter as he takes a camcorder with him on his journey to hunt the man-eating tiger that nearly kills him (the animal attacks him as one of his colleagues is shooting the film and dies on top of him with his gun in it's throat)
relentless snow, endless hunger, both for tigers and for people as they compete for ever diminishing resources in a barren, inhospitable landscape
Possibly the most depressing film I've ever seen, but also a magnificent and incredible film that people should watch and try to understand IMO
Juice Terry
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Brainaddict
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Happiness
Lilya 4 Ever
Festen
Dancer in the Dark was a shit film, but deserves a nomination for the hanging scene alone .
Lilya 4 Ever
Festen
Dancer in the Dark was a shit film, but deserves a nomination for the hanging scene alone .
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Dumb and Dumber almost had me reaching for the razor blades.
Juice Terry
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That was the best bit cos it meant the tedious pile of poo was overBrainaddict said:
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