*trigger warning - upsetting content* The most upsetting film you've ever seen...

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Harry Brown - I absolutely hated it and felt depressed for days, probably because those kinds of gangs are real and only 100 miles down the road. I was especially hurt watching the two beginning scenes, where they shoot a Mum walking her baby in a park just for a laugh and when they beat to death an innocent man trying to stop his car being vandalised. It reminded me of a particularly well known case 15 odd years ago (GN) 💔

Midnight Express - when they hung the cat purely out of spite because they knew the prisoner loved it. I can't watch it

Dumbo - when the Mean Elephants reject him and he's crying by his bucket of water. Fucking kills me

gnilliwdog · Today 20:10
@ScrollingLeaves It was actually beautifully made and well worth watching, I vividly remember the colour festival scenes. I would maybe watch it again, if I was feeling robust enough, it is utterly harrowing.

It is so beautiful, I agree. The vivacity of the little girl comes through all the colour and luminosity of the shots, and the sounds.. What happens in the end has all the more horror because of it.

Cathy Come Home

And that it was factual - and knowing that the reality must have been infinitely more dreadful than any film - made it unbearable.

You are the only other person I know who has seen it,

Horrible.

Oh. God yes!

I saw this when it was first shown (I was in my early teens). When the Social Services took her children - it was the Daniel Blake of the time, I think - except that CCH led to a huge outcry and I think they made changes to the system.

This govt didn't give a bugger about Danile Blake.

I tend to avoid horror films, war films and anything I know is likely to be particularly disturbing.

One film that has really stuck with me was called Osama, it was about a girl growing up in Afghanistan under the Taliban and pretending to be a boy so she could go to school. The final scene was absolutely devastating and still makes me shudder.

The whistleblower was the most upsetting and horrifying thing i have ever seen. I still have flashbacks and wish id never seen it. Even worse that its based on true events and people.

Haha OMG you're right. I wish I HAD watched a trailer about a caterpillar 😂

I'm such an idiot 😂😂

I third this - very sad but very well-done film.

Softplayhooray You're not an idiot. It was a funny brain slip 😁

I, Daniel Blake broke me

Room messed with me. Wish I'd never seen it.

I can't watch anything upsetting. I've avoided Sophie's Choice and Dumbo my whole life but still seen scenes that haunt me.

I remembered another C4 interesting film, 'Tzameti.' It was a French/Georgian film about a young man desperate for money who takes someone's place in an illegal gambling game. I thought it was very well done and the young actor was extraordinary, but bleak and nihilistic as you can get.
@Emotionalsupportviper I never met anyone who had seen it either!

Does anyone remember a film called Powder? Similar vibes to The Green Mile (which I love!). I remember sobbing at Powder 20-30 years ago.

Son of Saul

The book “Room” was much better than the film - but also more harrowing. I won’t forget it although it’s fiction.

Oh yes! The ending where they're swimming out hurts my heart

OMG I had never heard of the Human Centipede and I googled it - the 2nd one was seemingly even worse 😱

Stepmom
marley and me
the notebook
my girl
ghost
romeo and Juliet (Leonardo one)
The best of me
inside out
Even thinking about them makes me tear up!

Room is the only film I’ve cried in as an adult. Also cried reading the book too (which I read first).
It is not just a frightening and upsetting story in general but for me, it felt like a metaphor for the situation that DS and I were in. I have not been able to watch it again because I don’t want to revisit all that stuff.

Just remembered more:
the never ending story - the sinking horse
up
toy story 3
mighty joe young
Trainspotting - the baby death

War Horse - and I was on a plane when I saw it
Toy Story 3
The Snowman from the opening notes
Where the Wind Blows