Do people normally go back to watch things they don’t like? Seems like a waste of me time, tbh.
Would you like an example to carry on the conversation in good faith?
Sure!
Disturbed doesn’t mean don’t like.
I don’t like things that are disturbing.
They can and, in your case, do overlap. Still not the same thing.
I’ve never been so disturbed by a movie that I couldn’t continue watching it.
Even Cannibal Holocaust, a movie so realistic that the actors had to show up in court to prove it wasn’t a snuff film.
Yea but they killed that turtle.
You can eat folks, but not Mr. Turtle.
Probably requium for a dream, although I don’t think it was intentional. I was high with some friends and went to another friends house when it was already in the third act, so I kinda hopped into a what the fuck is this shit moment. I came away knowing it was true art and I’d have to watch the rest of it some time, but it took a long time to want to do so, while knowing I would eventually have to. I don’t know if I could watch it again.
Also gummo.
I somehow forgot how horrifying it is and decided to rewatch it. I sure came to regret that.
I saw it a few more times because I loved the filmmaking surrounding the movie. The acting is really good, and Wayans really surprised me. The mother-and-son relationship was tragically beautiful.
Also, go watch Satoshi Kon’s (sp?) Perfect Blue and you’ll see some very familiar scenes.
Can’t think of a film. But books! Anything by Tolstoy. Younger me thought Orwell tested my limits of gloom in 1984. Then I read Crime and Punishment…
In apology to OP for the film>book derailment, I will say film has a hard time disturbing me because it’s so complete and direct. Even the really nasty stuff can’t phase me, because I know its just a film, and the picture it paints always feels like its coming from the outside, trying to get in. It has to get through natural mental barriers that just exists. No conscious effort required.
Books give both far more detail, and room for your mind to contextualize what’s missing. That contextualization is done internally so it doesn’t have to slip past your conscious defenses. The disturbance, if there is one, was born in your deeper psyche. As clear a case of “the call is coming from inside the house” as there is.
Crime and Punishment took a lot longer than it should have. I loved every minute of it, but had to take breaks. It was emotionally taxing and no one writes like him.
I just remembered a section in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leopard_(Nesb%C3%B8_novel) describing Leopold’s apple. Fortunately it’s entirely fictional but, well, ouch.
I’m having trouble getting past a Character names Harry Hole.
Yeah, the author makes some… interesting choices.
I have yet to return to Crime and Punishment. I read the first 2000 pages or so, in a couple of weeks, so only a 1000 to go.
But now it’s been so long, so I probably have to start all over. Is it worth it? I really enjoyed it, but the book is almost 700 pages long, and so much of it is description of war battles, and these battles were not really interesting for me. Did you enjoy the description of these battles? They take up so much of the book, and I felt the didn’t that much to the story line, but the intention and meaning of these battles have probably just went over my head.
Haha! A subtle nod to my boo boo. Touché pussycat.
Crime and Punishment was Dostoyevsky, not Tolstoy. You correctly invoked Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
He too was an amazing writer. I loved War and Peace. The elaborate battle scenes appeal to my inner armchair general and love of military history. I considered it a gift, not a burden or crime worthy of punishment. ;)
Edit: But Dostoyevsky was the master of Russian grief and gloom. Just thinking about him makes me want to go back to Brothers Karamazov and Notes from the Underground.
Oh, haha. The Tolstoy and Crime and Punishment combination tricked my mind. Loved crime and Punishment, probably my favourite book. But yeah, War and Peace was tough for me.
The incompetence of military officers explains a lot, even today.
Nothing. I don’t get disturbed by media. I’m a bit baffled by people who do, especially fiction.
I get disturbed by real people in my real life though, but usually once that happens I distance myself as much as possible.
From Dusk Til Dawn
I was too young the first time, and so I found it too disgusting to even understand it. A few years later it went better, but even some more years later I could understand how it’s a good movie.
Maybe Der Todesking, but less so due to being disturbed and more so to digest each vignette of the movie due to how depressing the movie is
Dominion.
I don’t “love” it, but I appreciate the impact it had.
Tetsuo, the Iron Man
First time i watched, i was expecting something different, so really didn’t even try to pay attention and it played in the background.
But the soundtrack lived on rent free in my head, until i had to check it out again and it blew me away.
Damn good movie. Such a trippy mix of sci-fi and body horror.
Chu Ishikawa is amazing! Also, if you haven’t heard it yet, Nine Inch Nails did the theme song for the third movie.
