This is probably not what you're looking for for an answer but I quickly thought of a movie. The most disturbing film I've yet to see - - director Michael Haneke's original 1997 "Funny Games." Two extremely nice and polite good-looking young guys dressed in tennis whites clothes - - but they're definitely NOT what they seem. They make a family play their incredibly cruel funny games. Here's a gif -- a scene from the movie. Oh, yeah - - we, the audience, by watching, become involved in the games, too. As the gif shows, the two guys look and talk directly to us, the audience - - that device makes the movie that much more uncomfortable. The gif is actor Arno Frisch in the movie.
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I don't know if I was scared but something like that, yes- - I know I got upset. I had to stop watching it at one point and go take a walk. I returned and watched the rest. It disturbed me for weeks. But I also find it a true masterpiece of a film! I highly recommend it for a truly unique movie-watching experience.
This was the first movie I saw by director Michael Haneke. I've since watched many of his films -- I think they're all great! :)
Another thing -- almost a plot spoiler, like I already did, I guess - - this gif I posted? It's the first time in the movie he looks directly at the camera and acknowledges the audience. I remember thinking "What did he just do?!"
And in the background you can see the mother looking for the family dog.
As much as I really, really respect this movie, I've only watched it that one-and-only first time.
This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at September 4, 2018 10:55 AM MDT
I've really enjoyed sharing with you about the movie, thanks, SavvyAnsley! It's such a unique movie!
This is sort of funny -- not long after I watched the movie, I wrote a letter to the director Michael Haneke and asked him if the cast were OK! (They were THAT believable in their roles -- a really solid cast, everyone single one.)
Oh, and this was the original 1997 movie -- it's an Austrian film and Haneke later made a shot-for-shot remake in English with a different cast. I've never seen the remake.
I know I'm going to get sh*t for this, but it's what immediately comes to mind. I'm not saying this with judgment. I think I was a reasonably nice person when I participated in it. I know many incredibly nice and honorable people who do it every day. Doesn't make them not nice and it doesn't make what I'm going to say untrue.
Nice people contribute to the torture and death of animals every day by choosing to eat them.
From 1778 to 1871, the United States government entered into more than 500 treaties with the Native American tribes; all of these treaties have since been violated in some way or outright broken by the US government, while at least one treaty was violated or broken by Native American tribes.
Members of clergy generally are. Even the closet pedophiles among them play nice in public. That’s not to say I don’t disagree with them ideologically.
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