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[rawiri]

Eraserhead is just wrong but maybe more sickening than harrowing. I have to see Requiem for a dream now, but having read too many spoliers i imagine the impact won't be as great.

[venus]

[VanIslander]

Two girlfriends - one year at the theater, a couple of years later on video - could NOT sit through the DeNiro version of Cape Fear: too distressing!

[Whitey SK]

I saw this thread's title and was going to post "Requiem" as my pic... I was in shock for a full day after seeing that.

Not as believable, but a similarly tragic story is "Traffic".

[rothkowitz]

[Cheonmunka]

The Toxic Avenger was sick.

[Sister Ray]

[kimchi story]

Requiem is tops, but nearby is The Cook the Thief his Wife and her Lover.

Both left me pretty shaken up.

[rawiri]

Whhhoooaaaaaa...I've just finished watching Requiem, the last 40 minutes or so is really pretty horrible to watch but impossible to turn away from. The mom elicits the most sympathy of the bunch in that she becomes trapped from naievity and loneliness i guess, whereas all the other characters knew what they were in for. The MTV style of it leaves definite images burned into your memory, along with the string duh duh..duh duh duh duh...duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh...quite unnerving and just great cinema really. Thats what i like to see in film, a bit of realism. I'm going to have to read the book now.

Once Were warriors is a film that is the same in terms of grimness but with some redemption for a few of the characters at the end.

[Panic Button]

[happeningthang]

I've seen a lot of the movies mentioned here, but none of them have had the impact that Requiem did. I was actually stunned by that one. Aronofsky's first film, Pi, was pretty hard to watch as well.

A few that haven't been mentioned, but were kind of gutting in their own way...

Ghosts of the Civil Dead - It's an Australian indy film about life in a maximum security prison, featuring Nick Cave as a freaky psycho. Pretty nasty and raises the spectre of brutalising prisoners and then letting them out.

State of Shock - All the more harrowing because it's true. A documentary of Australian Aboriginals living on reserves in third world conditions. One man's story in particular who drunkenly killed his wife and is living with schizophrenia.


Gummo - A bunch of suburbanite white trash who are only a generation away from the hillbillys of Deliverance.

[rothkowitz]

I don't quite agree with the MTV reading of "Requiem.."

If you read them getting smashed in the original,first chapter,the guy and his mum,there's nothing MTV about it...just quick smack and quick change.

Isn't MTV a rather moribund term as it is?Nonsense.

Simple delivery of character facts.

People responding are ordering their responses in totally different ways.

Ghosts of the Civil Dead-I saw half at a film fest before the delivery crapped out.Went to my new house from the Octagon to see my flatmates friends shooting up and revving up chainsaws and puking up

Gummo-I found it funny,but not much else than that.

This was surprising

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AKfWippJeHM

If we go into docu territory .Anyhoo.

1,What is a docu?

2,How is a docu different to a film?

What's a docu?

Werner Herzog feature film?Les Bllank period snap?Lars von Trier-does he qualify as a docu-maker or a film maker?

[oneofthesarahs]

The Pianist is harrowing in an emotionally-investing way. I feel so depressed after watching it, but I still love it.

If by harrowing you mean in an "Oh my god what the *beep* is happening" kind of way, I vote Cannibal Holocaust, Audition, and Addio zio Tom. Not for the faint of heart. Look 'em up on IMDB.

[billybrobby]

I found the Deer Hunter, especially the first russian roulette scene with the bamboo cage, to be harrowing. i was really relieved to read that it such a thing did not, as far as people know, actually occur during the vietnam war.

[rothkowitz]