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KIDS
Requiem for a Dream
Bully
A Clockwork Orange
Happiness
Boys Don't Cry
Beloved
Bastard out of Carolina
Saw
American History X
Dogville
Storytelling
Leaving Las Vegas
GirlsTown
all of these, excellent films. some better than others, some perhaps a few degrees shy of excellent, but quality for sure. all members of an elite club known as "Glad I Saw It, Will Never Watch It Again". i don't do well with the level of inhumanity so brutally represented in these films. i know that no one should do exactly "well" with this, but i have a profound lack of ability to bounce back from a viewing of something like KIDS, for example. i am disturbed to my core and i go through a period during which i find it difficult to get along in a world where these kinds of things happen. i try my hardest to avoid this degree of grotesqueness. unfortunately, as i have noted, they are often very good films.
to be perfectly honest, there are a couple on this abridged list and on the longer list in my head that i didn't actually watch all the way through. for others i can only wish i'd had that kind of wisdom. for example, someone talked me in to watching Leaving Las Vegas. before i was too far into it, i learned how it ended. i didn't think it necessary in my life to view a scene like that, so i proactively turned it off. i experienced much of "Requiem..." with my eyes closed. this was also the case with Saw and American History X. self-preservation. and for the record, before anyone goes making suggestions, yes, i have heard about hostel. i won't even touch the dvd case it comes in.
i am not meant to carry these images in my head. things are troubling enough in there already.
Requiem for a Dream
Bully
A Clockwork Orange
Happiness
Boys Don't Cry
Beloved
Bastard out of Carolina
Saw
American History X
Dogville
Storytelling
Leaving Las Vegas
GirlsTown
all of these, excellent films. some better than others, some perhaps a few degrees shy of excellent, but quality for sure. all members of an elite club known as "Glad I Saw It, Will Never Watch It Again". i don't do well with the level of inhumanity so brutally represented in these films. i know that no one should do exactly "well" with this, but i have a profound lack of ability to bounce back from a viewing of something like KIDS, for example. i am disturbed to my core and i go through a period during which i find it difficult to get along in a world where these kinds of things happen. i try my hardest to avoid this degree of grotesqueness. unfortunately, as i have noted, they are often very good films.
to be perfectly honest, there are a couple on this abridged list and on the longer list in my head that i didn't actually watch all the way through. for others i can only wish i'd had that kind of wisdom. for example, someone talked me in to watching Leaving Las Vegas. before i was too far into it, i learned how it ended. i didn't think it necessary in my life to view a scene like that, so i proactively turned it off. i experienced much of "Requiem..." with my eyes closed. this was also the case with Saw and American History X. self-preservation. and for the record, before anyone goes making suggestions, yes, i have heard about hostel. i won't even touch the dvd case it comes in.
i am not meant to carry these images in my head. things are troubling enough in there already.
posted by shelly at 7/13/2007 09:28:00 AM
2 Comments:
What did you think of Fight Club?
if karol reads this, she may declare a cease-friendship, as this is one of her favorite movies, but i just couldn't do it. too much blood. too much graphic face-smashing. theoretically i thought the idea was fascinating, as was the case with the matrix, but i fell asleep right in the theater. once people start kicking each other in the face too many times, my brain just shuts down.
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