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exquisite tea posted:I was watching some Golden Era movies from the 50s and 60s for some research I was doing and one thing that really jumps out at you is how much these leading ladies get utterly manhandled all the time. Even in lighthearted comedies these poor women are constantly getting shaken about by the shoulders, roughly spun around in circles, their arms practically ripped out of their sockets by men. And all the while they have to pretend it's the most romantic thing that's ever happened to them! My whole family shrinks in crunchy pain for Donna Reed's neck every Christmas The best movie I've seen that I can't recommend to anyone is Lars von Trier's Antichrist. I gave it a watch without knowing anything about it because I was interested to see what came next after Dogme 95. Compelling, beautiful, and a completely misanthropic shot of pure, hopeless depression for me. I'll never watch it again, and I think about watching it again at least once a month. I didn't need to see it, and I don't think it did me much good either. It's a long stint of therapy with zero catharsis, and I'd already reached that conclusion about my own trauma. I've considered recommending it to people on the basis of it being a fantastic representation of the deepest, darkest state of mind I've experienced, but I don't want to hurt people like that either. It's incredible, I learned nothing, I felt awful for at least 6 months after watching it, don't watch it, please. And at least not based on anything I've said about it.
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