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venus · Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Location: Near Seoul

Not going to do a poll, as I don't have any others in mind.

But the end of 'Requiem for a Dream' where after being utterly degraded in the s*x show, the character goes home and curls up on the sofa, her humilliation forgotten about becasue she has her bag of smack...

That really shook me, and I used to be so unshakeable....

Probably one of the toughest going movies I've ever seen due to the extent to which the characters completely lose every shred of dignity...

rothkowitz · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

The book is better.

Incidentally,who did the soundtrack?

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

"Ichi the Killer" was pretty hard to watch. So was "the Pianist" and Polanski's "MacBeth." All worth watching, but man, they left me feeling a bit jangled and messed...
Never read the book for "Requiem for a Dream." Don't wanna. Hubert Selby books bum me out. "Last Exit to Brooklyn" was a pretty brutal movie, but the book...holy smokes. In the end of the movie, after Tralala gets gang-raped in an old dead car by like thirty guys, a little kid comes along and weeps over her and covers her body with a coat. In the book, a couple little kids come along and stub cigarettes out on her.
That's just too much. I feel gross just thinking about it.
Selby, by the way, did a cameo as the anesthetist (or janitor or whatever he was) who laughs and moralizes over the gangrened hero of "Requiem," when he's getting his arm amputated. I think he died right after they made that movie, actually.

rothkowitz · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

Selby has a short cameo in "Last Exit to Brooklyn" also as the taxi driver that hits the transvestite.

A docu was made about Selby.I haven't seen it.http://www.cubbymovie.com/

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003

Two movies come to mind. Reflecting Skin is a really disturbing movie about the truly warped lives of people in a small town in the rural US. The children who blow up frogs with a straw and fight over possession of a dead baby are some of the milder moments, and the adults' behavior is far more reprehensible.

The local talent here, however, gives it a good run for its money with Bad Guy/나쁜 남자, a disturbing flick about an innocent college girl who is forced into working off a debt in the red-light districts.

Satori · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: Above it all

Saw 3, oh my god, I actually walked out of it, first time I've ever done that, and I usually really really really like suspense thrillers...

skinhead · Joined: 11 Jun 2004

Odishon

~ "kiri kiri kiri kiri"

cangel · Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Location: Jeonju, S. Korea

Ok, ok, so it's B-cinema but Escape from New York was a fun flick.

Corky · Joined: 06 Jan 2004

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

My new most harrowing movie; "Jesus Camp." Up for an Oscar, apparently. Holy smokes! See that Haggard dude before his Fall? That's some harrowing stuff indeed.
And that Mullet Boy...wow.

cosmicgirlie · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

For me it would have to be Bully. I had to turn it off because I felt like I was watching kiddie porn. It was disturbing. The other one was Clean Shaven. The sound throughout the movie drove me insane, but probably not as much as the subject matter. I had to turn it off half way through also.