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mnhnhyouh
Joined: 21 Nov 2006
Location: The Middle Kingdom
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For me
Ghosts Of The Civil Dead - Nick Cave has a small role
Wolf Creek
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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A suspension of disbelief still has to resonate emotionally, thus the scenes still have to have an essence of human versimilitude to impart feeling and ellicit empathy.
As long as the above is achieved realism or fantasy can be equally disturbing.
Kind of why apart from the scenes of the 'Baby' in Eraserhead, I found the whole thing so darn boring and indulgent as couldn't relate at all to what was going on... |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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I tried to get into David Lynch,but really just couldn't.They display an arch,almost Baroque theatricality(or lame surrealism)
Breaking The Waves was convincing to me.Lars Von Trier made a point of avoiding "illusionism",part polemic,partly achieved.
I felt free enough to invest myself into the characters,to try to see the story through the characters.
The films with Bjork and Kidman though,his devices had run their course.They looked stage-ridden(or helplessly stage bound?)I couldn't suspend my disbelief enough to really get into it. |
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fadedgirl
Joined: 26 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:45 am Post subject: |
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| Hotel Rwanda. the slaughter was too much for me. I was crying. totally shaken... |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| rothkowitz wrote: |
I tried to get into David Lynch,but really just couldn't.They display an arch,almost Baroque theatricality(or lame surrealism)
Breaking The Waves was convincing to me.Lars Von Trier made a point of avoiding "illusionism",part polemic,partly achieved.
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I love David Lynch movies. There's nothing else like them around, and he's been consistently good since Blue Velvet. I can see your point, but I don't think Eraserhead is very representative of Lynch, and what he's doing now.
I don't really regard Lynch movies as "harrowing" as such, but the closest one that fits that description would have to be, Fire Walk With Me. It's the movie prequel to Twin Peaks showing Laura's life before she was killed. Had Lynch, Chris Isaak, and David Bowie as FBI agents. What's not to love?
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Breaking the Waves was an awesome movie. I'll even let the ringing bells ending slide for that one. |
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otis
Joined: 02 Jun 2006
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| The Exorcist and The Midnight Express. |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:17 am Post subject: |
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| I remember watching Threads when I was a kid. The flick is better than the U.S. film The Day After as it was more realistic and avoided melodrama. |
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hellsbells
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
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I completely agree with Requiem. It is still to this day the only movie I've seen when nobody, absolutely nobody, in the cinema moved when it ended. Everybody sat there in stunned silence for about 5 minutes after the credits rolled.
The other one I'd say is Kids. At the end when he's having sex with her unconscious body. Horrible to watch. Enough to put you off sex for a lifetime. |
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gypsyfish
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Not a great movie, but the first scene in Cliffhanger, where Stallone is trying to save a climber whose D-ring has broken flipped my stomach several times. Maybe my innate acrophobia. |
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oneofthesarahs
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
Location: Sacheon City
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| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:30 am Post subject: |
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| The scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit when Christopher Lloyd's character turns into a cartoon has always scared the bejeezus out of me. Seriously. |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:59 am Post subject: |
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Bertolucci films can contain some evil.
By "harrowing "I'd like to see the term replaced with something that makes a "strong impression"
Burt Lancaster as a paedophile and Donald Sutherland as a brown shirt fascist in "1900" were unpleasant to watch.
That's only one film,on one theme. |
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corroonb
Joined: 04 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:47 am Post subject: |
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| rothkowitz wrote: |
Bertolucci films can contain some evil.
By "harrowing "I'd like to see the term replaced with something that makes a "strong impression"
Burt Lancaster as a paedophile and Donald Sutherland as a brown shirt fascist in "1900" were unpleasant to watch.
That's only one film,on one theme. |
That film is nasty and incredibly long winded and boring. The scene where Sutherland's character murders a child for no reason was very odd.
I thought American History X was harrowing. The male rape was shocking, as was the curb stomp and the death at the end. Really stuck with me. |
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Are they the lemmings
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Location: Not here anymore. JongnoGuru was the only thing that kept me here.
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[quote]Once Were Warriors...[/quote]
Got that right. |
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