Probably requium for a dream, although I don’t think it was intentional. I was high with some friends and went to another friends house when it was already in the third act, so I kinda hopped into a what the fuck is this shit moment. I came away knowing it was true art and I’d have to watch the rest of it some time, but it took a long time to want to do so, while knowing I would eventually have to. I don’t know if I could watch it again.
Also gummo.
I somehow forgot how horrifying it is and decided to rewatch it. I sure came to regret that.
I saw it a few more times because I loved the filmmaking surrounding the movie. The acting is really good, and Wayans really surprised me. The mother-and-son relationship was tragically beautiful.
Also, go watch Satoshi Kon’s (sp?) Perfect Blue and you’ll see some very familiar scenes.
I’ve never been so disturbed by a movie that I couldn’t continue watching it.
Even Cannibal Holocaust, a movie so realistic that the actors had to show up in court to prove it wasn’t a snuff film.
Yea but they killed that turtle.
You can eat folks, but not Mr. Turtle.
heck yeah! one of my earliest plunders on the sea’s due to how infamous it was.
I don’t remember being particularly disturbed by it at the time, but afterwards I was also into rottendotcom and stuff like that. But these days I am no longer seeking that sort of thing so it wouldn’t surprise me if I didn’t tolerate it as well.
Can’t think of a film. But books! Anything by
TolstoyDostoyevsky. Younger me thought Orwell tested my limits of gloom in 1984. Then I read Crime and Punishment…In apology to OP for the film>book derailment, I will say film has a hard time disturbing me because it’s so complete and direct. Even the really nasty stuff can’t phase me, because I know its just a film, and the picture it paints always feels like its coming from the outside, trying to get in. It has to get through natural mental barriers that just exists. No conscious effort required.
Books give both far more detail, and room for your mind to contextualize what’s missing. That contextualization is done internally so it doesn’t have to slip past your conscious defenses. The disturbance, if there is one, was born in your deeper psyche. As clear a case of “the call is coming from inside the house” as there is.
Crime and Punishment took a lot longer than it should have. I loved every minute of it, but had to take breaks. It was emotionally taxing and no one writes like him.
Derail away, it’s all good. Great explanation. I’ll have to visit Tolstoy sometime.
I’ll concede that books can offer a whole lot more to disturb you. There are some stories that would probably be worse off as film adaptations.
Clive Barker’s novels had me taking a lot of breaks. Nothing like a blood orgy of Mortal Kombat fatalities to make you put a book down.
I have yet to return to Crime and Punishment. I read the first 2000 pages or so, in a couple of weeks, so only a 1000 to go.
But now it’s been so long, so I probably have to start all over. Is it worth it? I really enjoyed it, but the book is almost 700 pages long, and so much of it is description of war battles, and these battles were not really interesting for me. Did you enjoy the description of these battles? They take up so much of the book, and I felt the didn’t that much to the story line, but the intention and meaning of these battles have probably just went over my head.
Haha! A subtle nod to my boo boo. Touché pussycat.
Crime and Punishment was Dostoyevsky, not Tolstoy. You correctly invoked Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
He too was an amazing writer. I loved War and Peace. The elaborate battle scenes appeal to my inner armchair general and love of military history. I considered it a gift, not a burden or crime worthy of punishment. ;)
Edit: But Dostoyevsky was the master of Russian grief and gloom. Just thinking about him makes me want to go back to Brothers Karamazov and Notes from the Underground.
Oh, haha. The Tolstoy and Crime and Punishment combination tricked my mind. Loved crime and Punishment, probably my favourite book. But yeah, War and Peace was tough for me.
Do people normally go back to watch things they don’t like? Seems like a waste of me time, tbh.
Disturbed doesn’t mean don’t like.
I don’t like things that are disturbing.
They can and, in your case, do overlap. Still not the same thing.
Would you like an example to carry on the conversation in good faith?
Sure!
Okay, cool ☺️ I see there are some more on here now, but I’ll give you a few of mine.
TL; DR: The Hellraiser movies scared the piss out of me as a kid, but my curiosity to know more got the better of me, and I ended up really liking it down the road.
I’m a horror fan, but some genres shake me too much. Body horror is one of them, but I knew there were some classics in the category that I was missing. So I gave Hellraiser a shot.
I couldn’t stomach it at first. The opening scene horrified me.
Spoiler
Being ripped apart by hooks was the most visceral experience I had ever seen on-screen at the time.
But, it stayed with me. I thought about the movie more and got curious enough to continue it. My disgust was overtaken by my desire to know more of the story.
I ended up finishing the movie and came away with an interesting thought: yeah, it’s body horror, but it’s also cosmic horror. One of the tropes of cosmic horror is that the entity is beyond our understanding. What was clever about Clive Barker’s story was that it gave you a closer look at what it could be like to experience the unknown at a physical level. It was Lovecraftian, but not in concept. Barker gave it shape.
I ended up binging the original films, reading the books, and watching the reboot. It was off-putting on a physical level, but the execution, the details, the artistry of the stories really impressed me.
People change over time. Some of my favorite pieces of media now are ones I was not a fan of initially.
Maybe Der Todesking, but less so due to being disturbed and more so to digest each vignette of the movie due to how depressing the movie is
Very depressing - and awesome soundtrack. I still listen to it now and then.
Tetsuo, the Iron Man
First time i watched, i was expecting something different, so really didn’t even try to pay attention and it played in the background.
But the soundtrack lived on rent free in my head, until i had to check it out again and it blew me away.
Damn good movie. Such a trippy mix of sci-fi and body horror.
Chu Ishikawa is amazing! Also, if you haven’t heard it yet, Nine Inch Nails did the theme song for the third movie.
Dominion.
I don’t “love” it, but I appreciate the impact it had.
From Dusk Til Dawn
I was too young the first time, and so I found it too disgusting to even understand it. A few years later it went better, but even some more years later I could understand how it’s a good movie.
Isn’t that the thing? We’re introduced to them at a young age and they scare the shit out of us, but then we get to enjoy those movies and appreciate some of the schlock. (The penis gun, for example.)
Hmm so disturbing I watched it in pieces, AND I learned to love it? Tough requirements! I’m thinking it’s gotta be the sort of stuff that gets banned. But no, I’ve never experienced any movie like that. So disturbing I had to rewatch several times yes. But I didn’t love it, no. Enjoying it would also be a stretch lol. Just watching for the novelty really.
Nothing. I don’t get disturbed by media. I’m a bit baffled by people who do, especially fiction.
I get disturbed by real people in my real life though, but usually once that happens I distance myself as much as possible.
