Films that have impacted you the most

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I’ll go first. 1917. I came out of the cinema shell shocked and so much pent up emotion I had to let out. My husband tried to talk to me to ask how I enjoyed it and I told him I couldn’t talk for fear of bursting into tears in the cinema lobby.

Sophie's Choice

I watched it before I had children and it broke my heart and I couldn't get it out of my head. I couldn't watch it once I had children of my own.

@rubyslippers Up absolutely destroyed me and I can’t watch it! My husband thinks it’s hilarious.

For me it's the old films, such 'As Went the Day Well' (horrifiying) and other propaganda films. I'm an avid fan of 'Talking Pictures'. Also any 70s kitchen sink dramas, such as 'Kes'. I also will never forget the film 'Harvey' which I first saw as a child on television. It was a long time before I realised this film was about an alcoholic being sectioned by his family. I really think 'Harvey' was ahead of its time.

@ChiefInspectorParker > We were actually in Hollywood on a tour driving down a road when Tarantino was filming this. Tarantino was sitting by the side of the road. There were actors dotted about all over the place. Our guide told us the film companies pay to get the roads closed off and it's very expensive to enable this to happen. At the time we didn't know what they were filming. I stuck my head out of the window and asked, 'What's happening?' The policeman said, 'I don't know'. I said, 'Yes, you do', and found out later we were almost part of 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'.

Cloud Atlas

and V for Vendetta

The Pursuit of Happyness
The Lovely Bones

A Monster Calls

I just saw everything, everywhere all at once, definitely one of the weirdest, out there films I ever seen. Most of the time I was asking myself what the hell I was watching, yet I felt quite emotional at the end.

Promising young woman.

Not necessarily impacted me but when I saw Uncut Gems I had to watch it in 3 sittings as it just made me so totally uncomfortable. Disturbing film.

Grave of the Fireflies

I think the ongoing reel is what did it for me. Just one continuous piece of reel. The writing at the end when Sam Mendes thanks his relative for telling stories, the realisation that if my boys had been born 100 years earlier, that would be their life and I would be waiting to see if they would come home.

The Last King of Scotland, glad I watched it but never again.

I tried to read the book and found it very hard going. Could you explain the movie to me please?

The Elephant Man - I was a bit too young to have seen it and found it so disturbing, being in black and white didn't help - it's got such a dismal feel to it. Amazing acting though.

I found The Pianist completely unbearable to watch - worse than Schindler’s List for some reason. Never been able to watch it again.

The only two films where I’ve come close to walking out of the cinema were Saving Private Ryan (that opening scene) and Kill Bill 2 (the bit where she’s buried alive).

I've been meaning to watch this!

Another vote for Requiem for a Dream - absolutely brutal (emotionally). Definitely not a feel good film.

The Mothman Prophecies too, still plays on my mind 20+ years later. Especially with it being a real phenomenon.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Butterfly Effect.

My Girl as a child/teen too. Im now terrified of bees and wasps (also whats the name of that film where they go and shoot a load of hives in an orchard and a massive swarm attack the house?)

The one where the man fks the pig in the forest. Weird.

Life is Beautiful. Absolutely wonderful and well worth a viewing.

‘A Room with a View’. Watched it as a teen and fell in love with Italy and with literature. Read the novel, then read everything else from that period, especially Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury set. Ended up studying literature at university and then became a literature teacher. Also spent much of my life mooching around Italy and struggling to learn the language. Amazing how big an impact one film can have on someone’s life. I re-watch it every winter and it still ravishes me.

Cider House Rules
Schindlers List
Reservoir Dogs - might seem lame now but we all came out like 😮
Shawshank Redemption.
LaLa Land - totally surprised me as I was annoyed with the random singing and dancing and sobbing like a loon by the end.

Hmm. Negative impact:
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Splice

If you've seen it, you'll understand.

Otherwise, films where they challenge the reality that the protagonist has previously accepted. So:

The Truman Show

The Matrix (not the sequels though)
Cargo (fab sci fi film on Netflix)

A mixed bag:

The Truman Show
1917
Another Country
A Room with a View
Dead Poets Society (I know this is naff…)

I was about to say the same. So brilliant, but so many desperate moments.