Disturbing Movie Moments

[workgeordie]

huntergrayson said:

Is that from the infamous Miike? His stuff scares me simply by hearing about it. On the Asian cinema tip, Oldboy is currently in theatres. A lot of the violence is suggested but, my gawd, I'll never look at a hammer the same way again.

I second that. It doesn't happen very often that I feel sick while watching a movie but
the sound effect when he cuts his own tongue out are just stomach turning. However, a must-see-movie.

[ownlife]

The scene in Prince of Tides where the mother and her children were raped by intruders was awful and the following scene where she wouldn't let the children tell their dad what happened was even worse. Everyone's sitting at the dinner table eating and the camera focused on the daughter's back where you can see that her dress is buttoned incorrectly. I can't begin to imagine what was going on in their heads after suffering that level of violation and how horrible must it have been to pretend that nothing happened and all is okay. I was so creeped out by that scene.

Another is the movie, Bonjour Tristesse where widower David Niven slithers around St. Tropez like a Speedo-clad snake openly parading his bimbo-full sex life in front of his teenage daughter. I know that the point of the movie was to make viewers uncomfortable with his lifestyle (it succeeded for me) and to set up the senseless tragedy at the end.

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The book The Prince of Tides is even worse, ownlife. There's an earlier point in the book where the family acquires a *spoiler*tiger - I think it had something to do w/ the gas station th father used to own. Anyway, it lives in a cage in the backyard. So, after the two brothers, the sister and the mother are raped, the oldest boy gets away and lets the tiger loose. The tiger goes into the house and kills the attackers (the tiger loved the oldest boy and was protecting the people who have fed it over the years). Then, after the rape, the family has to dispose of the attackers bodies and clean up the blood, and then not tell the father when he got home. The only question he has was to wonder where the living room rug went, since the mother had to roll it up and throw it away when she couldn't get the blood out.*spoiler* No wonder poor Savannah went crazy.

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SPOILERS about Prince of Tides

BagofBones -- Not to mention that Luke (who loved the tiger) had to shoot the tiger to put it out of its misery, because it had been critically wounded during its battle with the intruders. I couldn't say if the book or the movie was more disturbing. I think I read the book before seeing the movie, and I was shocked that Streisand went the distance with that scene. I never thought she would depict something that graphic in the movie.

(I'm not spoilering, because I recently realized that there's not a strict rule about that here. But to be safe, I'll put SPOILER in big letters at the top of the post.)

[ownlife]

BagofBones, I completely forgot about the tiger and I agree that the book was worse than the movie.

[veronicamars]

Who were the intruders, why did the rape the mom and kids and why didn't the mom want the kids to say anything?

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Veronicamars -- It was, to say the least, a disfunctional family. The mother came right and told the kids (who had all been raped! --Well, except for Luke, who saved them) that if the father ever found out, he'd assume they (particularly she) had done something to invite it. There's a recurring theme in the book that the mother is so beautiful that she attracts more attention than the family really wants. Combined with the facts that the husband is ignorant, violent, and intimidated by the idea that he has a wife who is "out of his class" she realizes that she and the kids would be blamed by him for having drawn this violence to them. And so the poor kids are further screwed up by being ordered by her never to say a word about what happened. And yes, as someone said, that grim scene where they're following the mother's orders and cleaning up blood and burying evidence before the father comes home and sees it is one of the most disturbing movie moments I can think of... Plus, as someone said, Savannah's dress being buttoned incorrectly in all the haste to make things look "normal."

[vegasusa555]

Have any of you seen the movie called "Salo"? Oh my fucking god! My friend got a bootleg of it (because apparently, and I don't know why, a real DVD of this movie can cost 100's of dollars) and we watched it. Now, i'm not a squemish person at all, but this movie was too much. IF I had known what it was about, I wouldn't have even watched it!

Nothing like a relaxing afternoon watching imprisoned teens getting sexually violated! *puke* When we got to the scene that involved feces (please don't ask me what that entailed, I really would like to forget it!) we turned it off. That movie (or what we could sit through at least) was one big disturbing moment.

[emersende]

I had a college friend who had that DVD. Everybody told me never to watch it, it was not the kind of bad movie that I enjoyed but rather the kind that would scar me for life. I'm glad I listened.

I watched Caligula instead- the really long director's cut. (I'm not very bright sometimes.) The part that freaked me out was when Caligula decided that a popular general needs to be gotten out of the way, so he buries him up to his neck in dirt and then gets a machine with blades that scissor around about three or four inches above the ground. Tops of heads of living people lopped off everywhere. Everyone else remembers the wedding rape scene, but I remember *that.* Horribly disturbing.

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They aired "The Pianist" here last night, and I am so glad to own a remote, so I can flick the channel when the man in the wheelchair goes out the window.

I've seen Ichi the killer, but aside from the scarred hooker, I could not tell you what the hell it's about.