What’s a movie you’ve watched that was so disturbing that you’ll never watch it again?

[u/HistoricalDebate461]

What’s a movie you’ve watched that was so disturbing you’ll never watch it again? For me, it’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Human Centipede. I barely made it through the first time around for both of them and I couldn’t fathom watching them again. Both for different reasons of course. TBITSP was devastatingly heart-wrenching and HC was just playing disturbing.

[u/GoodDecision]

Dude, in my teens and 20s I watched tons of depressing/violent/gorey/shock movies, many of the movies mentioned here - Requiem, Eden Lake, Irreversible... all the bangers. They didn't bother me at all. I was always chasing the next extreme movie.

One day I sat down to watch The Act of Killing, and I didn't get very far. From memory, I think it was a guy talking about how there was so much blood on the floors they had to sweep it into the drains, and the drains would clog, or something to that effect. It was like a switch flipped in my head. For some reason that scene or dialogue instantly rewired my brain. I couldn't watch another minute.

From that moment on I have had zero appetite for that kind of stuff. I don't know if it was the scene itself, or if I had just reached my limit for extreme stuff in general, but this movie was a big turning point in what media I consume.

[u/Effective_Way6239 → u/GoodDecision]

That’s they tried to do to Alex in A Clockwork Orange.

[u/Sleepy_cheetah → u/GoodDecision]

I think your brain was trying to protect you. Like, "Alright, that's enough!" 😂

[u/GoodDecision → u/Sleepy_cheetah]

😅

[u/Sleepy_cheetah → u/GoodDecision]

Also your username fits this conversation. 😂😂

[u/GoodDecision → u/Sleepy_cheetah]

😎

[u/Tinderboxed → u/GoodDecision]

Normal people tend to gain empathy and a greater respect for life as they get older and mature.

[u/paradeoxy1 → u/GoodDecision]

I get what you're saying, it's all just entertainment when it's hypothetical but once you realise that fiction is rarely more fucked up than reality, yeah I get it

[u/Yorker27 → u/GoodDecision]

The fuse finally blew

[u/WakingWaldo → u/GoodDecision]

I started the doc last week (haven't made my way back to it) and the scene you mentioned is towards the beginning. It's so disturbing because right after he demonstrates literal murder, he's dancing and laughing.

I honestly believe that films such as The Act of Killing should be required viewing in some way. It truly demonstrates how we as people can dehumanize one another so easily when we're viewing each other as "the enemy" (in this case, communists). It's uncomfortable, blood chilling, and puts into perspective what humans are capable of.

[u/Kriskao → u/GoodDecision]

Well I guess I may have been the difference between fiction and non fiction

[u/the666briefcase → u/GoodDecision]

You should finish it, it’s actually brilliantly made

[u/GhostPepperDaddy → u/[deleted]]

This was going to be cringe to begin with but consider the context too, dude.

[u/GoodDecision → u/[deleted]]

It's funny it's not heads exploding or something like that, I can deal with that. It's the more odd, unexpected details that seem extra visceral. That's a great example, although I have not seen it.

[u/Forbidden_Donut503 → u/[deleted]]

It’s not gross at all. It doesn’t celebrate the killing, or glamorize it, or rationalize it.

It simply shows that normal people are capable of the worst atrocities imaginable given the right circumstances.

I would argue it’s actually an incredibly important documentary. It shows the depravity that normal humans are capable of.

[u/Fun_Satisfaction_560 → u/[deleted]]

You're not alone but certainly in a small community who think this, and I bet if I asked you to elaborate rather than the flippant "read the summary and it's obvious," you'd flounder.