June 25th, 2009, 08:49 PM | #1 |
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The Most Disturbing Film You've Seen?
There's been many films that leave an effect after viewing so which ones have disturbed you the most?
A few of mine are: Funny Games Wolf Creek Man Bites Dog |
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June 25th, 2009, 09:36 PM | #2 |
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Saviour
This is a compelling and superbly acted film set in the midst of the horrible Bosnian war of 1991-1995, horrible even by the standards of warfare, and the film pulls no punches in representing the stark brutality of all sides in this disgusting conflict. Dennis Quaid was outstanding in his portrayal of 'Guy', a man driven mad and homicidal by the murder of his wife in an Islamic terrorist bombing who wages his own dreadful personal war against Muslims until, as the film unfolds, he starts to realise that his Bosnian Serb co-belligerents are every bit as criminal as the murderers of his wife, and that he himself is just as bad as either. The awful turning point in the film is when Guy's Bosnian Serb comrade, a vile creature called Goran, very well played by Sergei Trifunivic, blames a Serb girl (Natasha Kinski) for having been raped and impregnated by the Muslim enemy, savagely beats her to induce premature labour, then, horrendously, takes up a firing position to execute her baby as it is being born. Quaid watches this incredible display with a deadly calm face, then, as the baby is being born, he turns Goran into mincemeat with a full clip of machinegun fire by way of expressing his opinion. By a most ghastly chain of events, he is now the baby's saviour and has also started to turn back into a human being just as the rest of the world has become hopelessly depraved. The message of then film is utterly bleak, yet not entirely without hope. Nearly all the decent people die, but Guy's story is a strange one of redemption. At the end, he is heartbroken, contemplating the ruins of his own life which he himself has crashed beyond recall. Only death or life in prison without parole can lie ahead of him. But he has saved the baby, and the comfort of this is real. Saviour is sad and savage and a first class war movie, emphasising the inhumanity of man against man. It shocked the hell out of me.
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Hostel
A tribute to the director's skill of putting cheap shocks and OTT gore ahead of a decent story. It led the way for an avalanche of sick copycats. To me it had not one single redeeming feature and no amount of money would persuade me to watch it again. |
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Funny Games is on my list as it's a 'fly on the wall' exploration into violence in the anti hollywood style. Originally made in German the director (Michael Hanecke) remade the film shot for shot in 2007 though this time in English in a bid to attract a more receptive American Audience. There's no gore. Most of the violence is actually off screen but the portrayal of a family held hostage by two sociopaths and forced into psychological games of sadism and humiliation is intense. There's no happy ending although at one point the film "hints" at a reversal in fortune. Not a film you'd likely want to watch twice but very well done IMO.
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I'll have to get hold of a copy of The Girl Next Door. I did a course in film studies a few years ago and one of the most interesting modules was Extreme and shocking cinema. In my experience the most extreme films are those where you identify with the characters and the situations they are in as oppose to any gory 'slice and dice' flick. I read James Herbert's autobiography a while ago and his own slant was that 'true' horror is that which is affecting on a personal level. Ramble over....
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I agree (the girls are great, by the way) but that movie is a step away from what I can stand.
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get serious! blood and guts is still just blood and guts. Change channels!
A few candidates: "Seven Days in May" "The Manchurian Candidate" "The Boys from Brazil" Respectfully, Cam |
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The Men behind the sun
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When I first saw this years ago I was left muttering "wtf.......wtf...." afterwards. |
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