Movie Suggestions Please!

ckm44

ckm44

A Disturbance in the Force
Hey! So I kinda have a strange question. Can anyone recommend a good movie, that makes you feel empty inside when it's over? You know, the type of movie that emotionally drains you so much that you just have to sit there for a while and not do anything? Some examples (at least for me) are A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Blue Valentine, The Road, etc.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
 
I'm not sure what exactly you are asking for. I'm not sure why you would be interested in something that leaves you feeling worse than when you started. Maybe you mean something cathartic. The Greeks felt that viewing cathartic material (plays, poetry) would leave one feeling uplifted, although the experience could be emotionally exhausting. The Road fits that bill. I haven't seen it yet, but I hear Twelve Years a Slave is very good.

A bit on the main character Solomon Northrup.

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That is kind of a strange request. If you don't mind me asking, what is your motivation for wanting this feeling?

I used to like movies that were very hard and showed the harsh reality of life from its not so pretty side but I can' watch such films any longer - it's like I've become too sensitive and they hurt too much.

Lukas Moodyson's "Lilja Forever" left me numb but was a really good movie. Also Ulrich Seidl's "Dog Days" and "Animal Love" are good but hard movies.

Also some of the movies by Harmonie Korine fit that bill. I've only seen "Kids" and "Gummo" and "Spring Break"

Aronofsky's "Requiem for a dream" about love and drug abuse is really good but hard, too.
 
ckm44 said:
Hey! So I kinda have a strange question. Can anyone recommend a good movie, that makes you feel empty inside when it's over? You know, the type of movie that emotionally drains you so much that you just have to sit there for a while and not do anything? Some examples (at least for me) are A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Blue Valentine, The Road, etc.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
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Not sure if you're talking about tear-jearker movies or emotional dramas. But I agree with the response from others above, something cathartic, that makes you think & become more aware would be better. For instance, Saving Private Ryan, or Schindler's List, The Green Mile. Or The Elephant Man, Dead Poet's Society, Shawshank Redemption. There's quite a lot of these type of movies spanning whole generations since the beginning of the movie industry, for those who are interested. Better to stick to the above examples or thought-provoking stuff - Cloud Atlas, Good Will Hunting etc, rather than the highly manipulative gunk that starts, or is billed as one thing, then descends into random explosions with sex & gore.

Do check out the links that Palinurus provided. (especially the first & last) Typically, anything I watch I do with an eye on ponerology/psychopathy, since the whole world is saturated with it. I find I can always give a quick example to people about a character or a movie that way. (including documentaries) The examples above are sometimes too much for me to re-watch (like the green mile) but, I find watching movies by en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ghibli moves me in a positive way that no other movies have. Also, if you can tolerate subtitles, then there's a number of quality movie dramas from the "world cinema" category. Mostly these are Spanish or Latin-based (small communities play a big role in these dramas) but there's a lot from several regions such as Korea, India, Africa. I can't really recall the names of these movies right now but, one powerful animated movie that comes to mind is the Iranian movie Persepolis. Hopefully you didn't really mean "emotionally drained" otherwise that's a pretty wasteful experience, to purposely seek out such a thing whilst passive. :thdown: :thdown:
 
ckm44 said:
Hey! So I kinda have a strange question. Can anyone recommend a good movie, that makes you feel empty inside when it's over? You know, the type of movie that emotionally drains you so much that you just have to sit there for a while and not do anything? Some examples (at least for me) are A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Blue Valentine, The Road, etc.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
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Is not a movie, though. But could not even finished, it made me feel sick like nauseating, it is the anime Serial Experiments Lain. _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Experiments_Lain, with the same feeling, was Apocalypse Now Redux _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now Cannot say they are good, but remembered them by the related drain feeling.
 
Lain? It actually ends with her 'ascension' out of the 'net' and our world to an essentially 4d state... esoterically, you'd have to say an STO state, and the sense of nausea could be said to be her awakening to the truth of her situation and everyone else's... thus the split in innocent Lain, unaware vs knowledgeable Lain who comes to understand the STS world around her... 'God' and all the usual bs.

Besides, Lain is a series, a wee bit longer than a film, and ends on that happy note with her talking to 'father' and able to visit her old friend as she chooses in time....or something like that. I like the opening song, with the title sequence, definitely sets the mood that this isn't going to be an ordinary ride... sort of like Matrix for teens, only not ordinary and mostly all in the mind...hers and ours... like a dream, which at times is indeed a nightmare for her, a matrix sucking her in and from which she needs learn to escape.... as she does in the end. Wasn't there a line in the film 'Fields of Dreams' about "go the distance"?

Not sure this one would fit the bill, as most people wouldn't watch the entire series at once, though it would work like that if watched in sections as presented on the DVD (4?) Only the last one wouldn't make you empty so much as wondering what exactly is being referred to.
 
Hi ckm44.

You've been given some great titles to start with. "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Cloud Atlas" would be on my top 25 list if I ever decided to create one. :)

Another one that comes to mind is "Into the Wild" with Emile Hirsch (based on the true story of Christopher McCandless). I'll watch most anything a second time, but not this one.

I too am curious as to why you're seeking out these types of films.
 
ckm44 said:
Hey! So I kinda have a strange question. Can anyone recommend a good movie, that makes you feel empty inside when it's over? You know, the type of movie that emotionally drains you so much that you just have to sit there for a while and not do anything? Some examples (at least for me) are A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Blue Valentine, The Road, etc.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
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It sounds like you want movies that are bleak and depressing. Well, if you're really in the mood to do that to yourself: Revolutionary Road, Hunger, and I'll second Elephant Man. They may be bleak, but there's something to learn from each of them, IMO.
 
"Texhnolyze"

In a man-made underground society, descendants of a banished generation vie for control of the crumbling city of Lux. Ichise, an orphan turned prize fighter, loses a leg and an arm to satisfy an enraged fight promoter. On the brink of death he is taken in by a young woman doctor and used as a guinea pig for the next evolution of Texhnolyze. With his new limbs, Ichise is taken under the wing of Oonishi, a powerful leader of Organ, an organization with some hold on Lux. As Ichise is drawn deeper into a war for territorial control of the city, he learns of his possible future from the young girl prophet Ran, who guides him from the shadows in his darkest times. With the explosion of the warfare, Ichise must uncover the truth about Lux and fight for his survival as he realizes his destiny.
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_http://myanimelist.net/anime/26/Texhnolyze
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texhnolyze
 
It might just be me and that i was relating to it but a movie called Hesher made me quite emotional. There is another i cant remember the name of but will reply with when it comes to me.
 
I thought "The Road" was one of the most depressing movies ever. If you liked that one, then you may also enjoy "Buried" (2009) - which was for me a close second in terms of depressing movies.
 
Free Men.

Here is a trailer and a description:

http://www.sott.net/article/291260-Remember-when-Paris-Muslims-helped-Jews-escape-the-Nazis

The (Arabic) music is also wonderful. Yet, the film is bleak, especially if you know what happened in Algeria afterwards.
 
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