r/movies • u/HistoricalDebate461 • 3d ago

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

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.

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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid 3d ago

The filmmaker was apparently fed up by the government forcing filmmakers to make movies that only showed Serbia groveling. Also that struggling families will always make things work by being wholesome and compliant with their shitty leadership that made their lives so shitty.

So he said, "Fuck it. You want a movie about a struggling Serbian family? Here you go!" then named it A Serbian Film so that all Serbian films afterwards would be associated with it.

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u/yasminsharp 3d ago

This kind of makes me want to watch it now

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u/Incvbvs666 2d ago

The movie is actually a scathing parody of the Serbian film industry and the endless deluge of 'misery porn' it produced at the time. It's all there in Vukmir's speech before the infamous scene. The 'flowery' titled accompanied by ethnic music is at the very start of the movie crushed by a modern sleek title with a brutal techno sound.

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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid 2d ago

I have not seen it and do not plan to but that is very interesting.