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Added 2020-09-04 00:42:53 +0000 UTCName a movie that you could only watch once, because it was too difficult to watch a second time.
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Very good question. I could write several but I'll go with A Serbian Film. It was a challenge to watch it once. So fucked up.
Oskitello
2020-09-05 01:06:13 +0000 UTCRequiem for a Dream. It is an extremely intense film and shows you the potential consequences of substance abuse. It's extremely disturbing, especially if you have used substances that are a little harder than marijuana bc it makes you reflect on your own decisions and how it could have negatively impacted your own life. You don't need D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs, just show them that movie instead - it's far more effective.
Ryan
2020-09-04 10:53:59 +0000 UTCAntichrist. I didn't like it. A lot of the explicit imagery felt exploitative rather than meaningful in anyway.
Stephen
2020-09-04 03:52:02 +0000 UTCSon of Saul. While I consider The Pianist the greatest Holocaust (narrative) film, and it's horrific and difficult to watch in many ways, Son of Saul is the one I don't think I'll ever revisit. Not for lack of quality, really the opposite. It's so successful in its uncompromising point-of-view, forcing you to experience everything essentially through a first-person perspective, that it becomes a necessarily grueling and torturous ordeal. A true nightmare, there are images in the film that don't need to be witnessed more than once to haunt you forever.
Andrew Reed
2020-09-04 03:47:34 +0000 UTCPersonally, it's first reformed. The movie is intense throughout and the final scene was really gruesome and scarred me for a few days.
Wesley Crawford
2020-09-04 03:42:17 +0000 UTCA Clockwork Orange. I absolutely admire the painstaking work that Kubrick puts into his films, but his over-attention to style and detail can sometimes make his films feel unnecessarily cold and distant. It’s also hard for me to watch knowing that he completely changed the ending of the original novel. It was originally a hopeful ending but he changed it to a much more cynical one against the wishes of Anthony Burgess.
Matthew Mertens
2020-09-04 03:19:55 +0000 UTCPink flamingos
swift minus one
2020-09-04 01:39:47 +0000 UTCConcrete, to this day I find it more disturbing than Salo’, A Serbian Film, No Child of Mine, and Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door. It’s based on the murder of Junko Furata. :(
Wintersnow Pino
2020-09-04 01:07:26 +0000 UTCCome and See by Elem Klimov. Soviet cinema seems to do a much better job at capturing the madness and emotional turmoil of war than the US. This film utilizes so many close ups for prolonged periods of time, which forces the viewer to come and see what WW2 did to Belarus in particular.
Reggie Clark
2020-09-04 01:05:06 +0000 UTCWelcome to the Dollhouse. It was actually my second viewing of it that hit me. I forgot how depressing its depiction of adolescent bullying was. Heather Matarazzo should've been nominated for an Oscar. If you have had a history of being bullied or loneliness, this film will be difficult to sit through.
Wolfman Brandon
2020-09-04 00:53:42 +0000 UTCDogtooth by Yorgo Lanthimos. Truly a masterpiece film but it's subject matter is extremely controversial & taboo. It is a movie that tries to explore what harm facisim can create onto others. I've seen some pretty heavily provocative films but none compare to this one, not even Salò. Definitely worth the watch the, Lanthimos never seems do disappoint.
Christian Sanaploianu
2020-09-04 00:47:56 +0000 UTCIrreversible. I find myself drawn to and wanting to revisit Climax and Enter the Void but the idea of rewatching Irreversible makes me a bit queasy. It's just so visceral and brutal with its depiction of assault and rape that I can't see myself returning to it because the experience is that difficult to sit through.
Tyler Shobe
2020-09-04 00:46:01 +0000 UTC
