Mysterious Skin : great films you never want to watch again

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I would add Fish Tank to this list, Sleeping Beauty (the Emily Browning version), and Kids. And if I dare straddle the boundary into documentary films; Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die. Powerful stuff but definitely not lining up to watch that one again.

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Irreversible is best seen once only, imo. Anything more is sadistic titillation without constructive purpose. This, on the other hand, I've seen twice, for the performances and outstanding direction. It's a very solid piece of drama.

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I strongly disagree about Requiem. I must have seen that movie at least half a dozen times. One of my all time favorite movies.

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Der Untergang
Small Sacrifices

I haven't really seen any other good movies that left me with a depressed feeling. I haven't even seen this movie.

You have your opinions I have mine.

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Here's a short list of films, which I consider to be good cinema, but which are either so sad, violent, disturbing, etc., that I was only able to watch them once. They are all well worth watching, but I just can't watch any of them again. They are not listed in any particular order.

Schindler's List
Requiem For a Dream
Brokeback Mountain
Sophie's Choice
Bent
American Psycho
Kids
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Half Nelson
The Parallex View
American History X
Chopper
Looking For Mr. Goodbar
Drugstore Cowboy
My Own Private Idaho




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MY ABSOLUT TOP: MARTYRS, GREAT film, however i never ever want to watch it again, left me with such a feeling of dispair, emptyness, anguish, depression. Definitely not for everyone.
On second place: IREEVERSIBLE, mentioned so many times in this thread.

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Whoever mentioned Fish Tank made an excellent call. I was thoroughly entertained but I have zero desire to go back down that road again thanks.

Im shocked… SHOCKED… not ONE person has mentioned the movie Inside (although, granted, labeling it “great” might be a stretch. But it’s a solid film and Im sure some people think its “great”).

The movie is very disturbing and violent, sure. But beyond that, what makes it difficult to deal with is that the very thing you assume the director would NEVER dare actually put on film, he puts on film. The very direction you assume they would NEVER be evil enough to take us down is exactly what they do. And theres nothing you can do about it. You spend most of the film saying to yourself “ok they aren’t possibly going to actually go there. No way. They wouldn’t do that. They’ll come up with something shocking but manageable right? Right?? They’ll just tease us that the most horrific option has a possibility of happening so we are tense and anxious throughout the whole film then they’ll do something else that’s not nearly as… AAHHH!!!! OH MY GOD NO!!!! MAKE IT STOP!! MAKE IT STOP!!”

The film forces the viewer to be engaged in the unthinkable in a kind of Clockwork Orange way that Ive never experienced from any other film, even the most horrific violent gory depraved films imaginable. In other words, Ive seen films that were more gory and more violent but Ive never felt so psychologically helpless. Ive never felt like a movie was dangling me over the very pit of squirming tarantulas I was praying the whole time they wouldn’t dare drop me in. And then they do… they do…

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Requiem for a Dream is not that good that I'd watch it again. This movie, though, is.

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The Skin I Live in



so many movies, so little time

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Although this is a great film, it was an extremely awkward watch at times...



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