Day #27 of the 30 Day Film Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #27 of the 30 Day Film Challenge.

The prompt is A Film That Made You Uncomfortable

Hmm..I don't know about this category. I tend to avoid films that make me uncomfortable or try to. Also I forget them. I'm very good at forgetting things. There is however one film that still bothers me due to a famous sequence with Johnny Depp - it was among Johnny Depp's first films..

I'd been warned off of it by my brother - but I saw it with a bunch of friends freshman year of college anyhow...

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Followup, since people keep picking two films...I saw this film on television after my mother reported seeing it and absolutely hating it. It made her uncomfortable and she ranted about it. The mere fact that she actually went to see it with a friend in the movie theater - amused me. Because I just can't see her actually watching this.. I can't remember the movie at all, except I found it to be cringe-inducing in places, absurdly amusing in others, kind of boring, and I disliked all the characters. Honestly, it's the sort of film you want to watch to remind yourself that being single is not so bad and men are gross, selfish jerks.

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Comments

[petzipellepingo]

Speaking of Malcolm McDowell, I'm going with A Clockwork Orange . I was never sure if Kubrick wanted me to regard this as satire, straight sci fi or a comedy.

[shadowkat]

I'm going with satire - political/social satire. It's kind of subtle - British satire is more biting and often offensive. Also it tends to be very disturbing and uncomfortable. (See Jonathan Swifts' "A Modest Proposal" for biting satire.)

Satire is often hard to watch for those reasons. It's supposed to be uncomfortable.

A Clockwork Orange is a film that I thought was brilliant, but can't watch again. I considered that one. Weirdly, I found IF more disturbing and uncomfortable to watch.

[cjlasky7]

I'm going to go with 2014's Whiplash (directed by Damien Chazelle). I wasn't uncomfortable with Fletcher's terrifying, abusive methods of teaching music; what made me uneasy is that the movie says they WORKED. Pushing Andrew to the edge of madness was just the amount of focus he needed to achieve true genius?

Really?

Okay, you could say that Andrew's reconciliation with his father was what gave him the inner strength to survive that concert...

But I dunno. Still uncomfortable:

https://youtu.be/zIP_gtjDtfE

[atpo_onm]

While an obvious answer might be to pick a horror film, where after all, inducing discomfort is kind of the intent-- naaah. I compartmentalize fairly well, so other than torture porn flicks like the Saw series (which I haven't seen and have no intention of seeing) they don't really make me uncomfortable.

But this film certainly did, a horror story of a very different kind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Y1vxtMqfA

I had no idea that Mozart had a sister, let alone that she was nearly or as talented as he was. Really hardly surprising, right, from the same DNA and all? But I bet if you asked 1000 randomly selected people if they knew Mozart had a sister, for 998 or more their answer would have been the same as mine.

A victim of the time she lived in, and for so many other thoughtlessly ignored passionate, artistic, intelligent, capable women for literally centuries afterward.