I think it's even worse than that, watching those films actually makes us feel morally righteous, as well. And so we don't have to take any action to redress the situation, because we KNOW about it, and that's somehow enough. So we go home, and feel sad, and nothing changes for the subject people.
And, also? Salo; or The 120 Days of Sodom (dir. Pasolini, from de Sade's novel) = MOST PAINFUL AND GROSS movie I've ever watched. I was totally going "there is no way I would have allowed my teenage daughter or son to appear in this film" and I don't even have kids, or any immediate intentions towards having them. And I was... about 23 at the time lol. Pasolini's a great director, and this is just possibly the most horrible film I've ever seen.
LOL, I'm glad I haven't seen that one. Though I have the experience that bad or scary porn sort of has a different effect than terrifying drama or horror. Maybe in porn you can get more numbed?
I was kind of numb up to the forced shit-eating, then I was just trying not to gag. OMG. :D I think part of the point of this film was to be numbing, but I couldn't get there.
The Haneke movie sounds quite in the spirit of Funny Games, doesn't it? I haven't seen it either. Funny Games was hard to watch as it is and I was completely spoiled (having read some detailed reviews going in).
You know, it's strange. When United 93 first came out I said the same thing. I couldn't understand why anyone would want to watch it, I couldn't even take watching the trailers for it.
Then it was on HBO for a while and I kept catching bits of it and found myself drawn in. Mostly I'm interested in what the air traffic controllers did that day, and I found those parts of the movie really interesting. The scenes on the plane are hard to watch and really pretty upsetting - especially the end, when you're rooting for these people and it almost looks like they might have a chance to survive and take back the plane, and if this were any other movie not based on a real event they would make it and everything would be okay in the end, except that you know what's coming and that there's no going to be any happy ending - but I did find the scenes on the ground and how those not on the plane react really fascinating. For some reason I'm always interested in how people react to a crisis, and seeing the events of that day and the various
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I can see how it would be very interesting. I guess I just need some historical or emotional distance to be able to really watch it. It just feels like something you could read in a newspaper article rather than watch a movie about it. Kinda like when that Korean boy shot up that school, there was an article about this one professor who got killed by putting himself in the shooters way to protect others. Just reading about it made me cry, so I feel I don't need a movie for it. There are other ways for me to know and be touched by it
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Salo; or The 120 Days of Sodom (dir. Pasolini, from de Sade's novel) = MOST PAINFUL AND GROSS movie I've ever watched. I was totally going "there is no way I would have allowed my teenage daughter or son to appear in this film" and I don't even have kids, or any immediate intentions towards having them. And I was... about 23 at the time lol. Pasolini's a great director, and this is just possibly the most horrible film I've ever seen.
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A list of interesting and exhausting movies - and what does it tell about me that I actually watched a big batch of them?? :D
Only not the Haneke mentioned, after Funny Games and Die Klavierspielerin I sort of had it somehow ...
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Then it was on HBO for a while and I kept catching bits of it and found myself drawn in. Mostly I'm interested in what the air traffic controllers did that day, and I found those parts of the movie really interesting. The scenes on the plane are hard to watch and really pretty upsetting - especially the end, when you're rooting for these people and it almost looks like they might have a chance to survive and take back the plane, and if this were any other movie not based on a real event they would make it and everything would be okay in the end, except that you know what's coming and that there's no going to be any happy ending - but I did find the scenes on the ground and how those not on the plane react really fascinating. For some reason I'm always interested in how people react to a crisis, and seeing the events of that day and the various ( ... )
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