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Schindler's List....I found it so affecting, I had to sit in the cinema toilets and take a moment to compose myself - me and my friend didn't talk to each other the whole way home because we were so stunned/moved.
The week after, another friend asked me to go and see it with them, but I just couldn't!
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Brilliant war movies about concentration camps..and absolutely should be told...I have both on VHS..but boy...do they effect you and stay with you for a long time after.
I found A.I. really depressing - the whole concept of the passage of time, and mortality, and how the world evolves long after you've gone. And that whole kid's existence is just miserable from start to finish - the way he's rejected, and spends thousands of years staring at a statue of an angel...God I hated that film!
Philadelphia just made me and my mate bawl like babies. Not really depressing, though, perhaps, just really sad.
The Green Mile is depressing, just because the ending is so rank. It's just not right...! Of course, any American movies featuring the death sentence depress me, like The Chamber (aagh!)
quote:Originally posted by harley64: what films have you found depressing
"Osama", a film on Afghanistan. All the more depressing than it is beautifully shot. It's about a girl who dresses as a boy to survive in Afghanistan and all what the women have to go through to survive. I left the cinema totally desperate.
"The Vanishing".(Holland, remade by the Americans with a Walt Disney style ending!!!) A real thriller beating Hitchcock on his own ground. At the end you find difficult to breath!!!
quote:Originally posted by sidudeuk: I found A.I depressing. Also Titanic. Also A Perfect Storm, everybody dies, I mean what the hell? I know its a true story but for a film?
C'mon Pelican!
Agree about A Perfect Storm - that is one ending I would have appreciated being Hollywoodised! Especially Mark Wahlberg...aagh!
quote:Originally posted by *Katerina*: Schindler's List....I found it so affecting, I had to sit in the cinema toilets and take a moment to compose myself - me and my friend didn't talk to each other the whole way home because we were so stunned/moved.
I was meant to watch that in school before the summer because I was learning about the Germans, we didn't end up watching it though.
armageddon,(althought i loved this film you know it just had one of those endings)
matrix reloaded-just completely the wrong sort of ending,
<stella26>
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oh and seven
and 12 monkeys
<tagomago>
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Depressing films include:
Nil By Mouth The War Zone Naked Requiem for a Dream The Silence Breaking the Waves A Short Film About Killing Night & Fog The Sweet Hereafter Last Exit to Brooklyn Kids Salvador Death and the Maiden
- not necessarily a bad thing...There are depressing films in that they suck, many of these are Hollywood products, round up the usual suspects...
The artist formerly known as Accatone...
<hunkydory>
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Depressing means intense means uplifting and life affirming! I think the most "intense" film I've ever seen is Bergman's Cries and Whispers. I have never seen a film which treats death in such a bleak and dense manner. The film is a tour de force but not depressing because it's an artist who is dealing with reality and facing his demons. A true masterpiece by one of the great film makers of all time.
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