Movies you'll regret watching.

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Sir Mat of Dickie: Jul 19, 2012; Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, drew a circle with a piece of red chalk and said: “When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever their diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the red circle."

Justin Godscock posted:

Henry's biggest strength is it rejects serial killer movies that try to stylize, humanize or even glorify serial killers.

It's a nasty movie with terrible people doing horrific things and you feel dirty witnessing all of it.

It's also a great film.

I like the film for that reason, but the realism is hurt by the fact that the person it was based on later turned out to have falsely confessed to many killings, while the police were too happy to close cases without following up on the evidence to the contrary. Absolutely agree on feeling dirty afterwards.

Edit: I'll add one to the list, Element of Crime. I haven't seen anything else by von Trier (lol), but the unexplained post-apocalyptic setting is exceptionally dire, to the point that the idea that there are police still around to investigate murders seems almost miraculous. The final shot is particularly haunting.

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Sir Mat of Dickie: Jul 19, 2012; Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, drew a circle with a piece of red chalk and said: “When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever their diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the red circle."

fr0id posted:

Threads (1984)

The movie is about the prelude, enough to care about the characters, then aftermath of a small city in the UK after the Cold War turned hot and the uk was hit by nuclear bombs.

The ending is a woman in the post fallout countryside giving birth to a stillborn irradiated baby and then wailing into the camera as the movie ends.

Just a completely depressing movie about a still very on the table potential future.

Edit: I think that the baby was also the result of a rape

Common joke, but the real horror of the film is that they live in England. But seriously, that film is forever seared into my mind; I saw it for the first time recently. Apparently, a lot of experts at the time pooh-poohed it as unrealistic about the effects of the bomb, etc., (maybe they were even right; people still argue about exactly how a nuclear winter would play out, and I hope those debates remain purely scholarly), but it clearly had an impact on the general public.

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