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#21 April 20, 2008, 07:41:14 pm

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Quote from: Green Bomb on April 20, 2008, 02:05:09 pm

Uh, I mean more like, films that provoke an intense emotional response in you.

The mixture of disgust, amazement, hilarity, and whatever else I can't put a name on was pretty intense in that movie. But I suppose you mean more of an "inspiring" film.

Then I would say Big Fish or Charlie Chaplin's City Lights. BF is the most recent resuscitation of the importance of myth (quite engaging) with very touching latter scenes, and CL was probably Chaplin's best film (though not the funniest, that would be Modern Times) as The Little Tramp gets a job to support a blind girl he falls in love with, and has one of the best/most tender endings on film, I think.

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#22 April 20, 2008, 08:30:33 pm

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Bridge to Terabithia ;_;

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#23 April 20, 2008, 08:50:31 pm

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Quote from: GaZZwa on April 19, 2008, 12:06:35 am

I watched Shoah fairly recently and I've probably never been so affected by a film. Afterwards I had a hard time sleeping, eating or talking about anything else for a little while.

yeah I had that reaction one time recently after watching a movie, and I distinctly remember having that kind of thing going on after watching this interview tape of a family friend who died recently.. he had escaped from some extermination camp in poland during the last stages of the final solution and made it here somehow and eventually was a consultant to Spielberg when he made Schindler's List... pretty powerful fucking stuff. I remember when I was 10 years old he showed me the tattoo on his arm and I fucking cried. It actually is bringing back tears now just thinking about it.

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#24 April 20, 2008, 10:53:48 pm

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unsarcastically, Big Fish I agree with. I always had a weird connection with that movie.

And Life is Beautiful. I remember watching that for the first time when I was much younger, and it was the first real foreign film I ever saw. Was a great introduction to the world outside hollywood.

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#25 April 21, 2008, 03:09:27 am

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It's kind of hard to come by on DVD, but there is a melodramatic silent film by F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu guy for most) called Sunrise (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018455/) which I think is a particularly powerful little movie.

The story is both horrifying and inspiring at the same time, it revolves around a man and wife who've drifted out of love. The husband has a mistress from the city who convinces him to murder his wife and marry her, and so the first half of the film follows the husband as he plans to murder his wife, and it builds up to one of the most suspenseful scenes I think I've ever seen. The second half is one of the most inspiring things ever as the husband and wife fall back in love after the husbands failed murder attempt.

The film is really amazing, particularly the second half when that expressionistic touch really kicks in and shows what I guess could be called the feeling of being in love just personified on the screen. There is a shot where the couple walks through the city and it dissolves into this surreal landscape, sort of showing you what it feels like for the couple, then back to the city where they've caused this traffic jam because they're so oblivious to anything around them.

It's just great. I'd recommend maybe trying to get it on Netflix, if they have it.

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#26 April 21, 2008, 05:26:35 pm

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I agree with big-fish, it had a epic Disney feeling but in a more adult way.

requiem for a dream pretty much toke away my appitite, and the ending kept repeating in my head, the music also played a big role.

another would be oldboy, I had goosebumps all over my body during photo-album swap.

unbreakable even though Elijahs theory was fantasy it made a good, the ending just swept me away

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#27 April 21, 2008, 10:40:44 pm

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At the end of The Life Aquatic when they all see the Jaguar Shark. That is such a magical scene from one of my all time favorite movies. You just get such a feeling of... Tranquility, and childlike wonder... I love it.

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#28 April 21, 2008, 11:53:38 pm

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That Life Aquatic scene was cool. I like the song used (Sigur Ros - "Staralfur") more than the scene though!

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#29 April 22, 2008, 05:37:00 am

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Yeah, that Life Aquatic scene definitely made the whole movie worth it in my eyes. It was pretty decent up until then but the scene where they see the Jaguar Shark definitely bumped it up a couple points in my book.

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#30 April 23, 2008, 07:38:15 pm

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I watched Elephant recently, and I couldn't sleep the night after. I'm pretty sure it's a 'just me' kind of thing, perhaps because I was paying far too much attention to Alex Frost's performance, but yeah. Tis a powerful film, plus I'm a sucker for long shots.

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#31 April 23, 2008, 08:46:43 pm

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Quote from: Roman on April 18, 2008, 09:29:26 pm

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what is this from (mulholland dr considering you posted about it right after??)???

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#32 April 23, 2008, 09:27:20 pm

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Quote from: Lord Spillsbury on April 23, 2008, 07:38:15 pm

I watched Elephant recently, and I couldn't sleep the night after. I'm pretty sure it's a 'just me' kind of thing, perhaps because I was paying far too much attention to Alex Frost's performance, but yeah. Tis a powerful film, plus I'm a sucker for long shots.

HELLS YEAH. This is probably the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. I like how they put in some surreal events to make it seem like it can happen anywhere.

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#33 April 24, 2008, 04:29:01 am

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Quote from: Lord Spillsbury on April 23, 2008, 07:38:15 pm

I watched Elephant recently, and I couldn't sleep the night after. I'm pretty sure it's a 'just me' kind of thing, perhaps because I was paying far too much attention to Alex Frost's performance, but yeah. Tis a powerful film, plus I'm a sucker for long shots.

I quite liked this film but found myself strangely unaffected. I guess I knew what was going to happen at the end so it didn't really seem all that shocking (although it was filmed very well). I was probably just in an unemotional mood when I watched it.

Alex Frost was good in this film, I thought. Most of the actors were.

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#34 April 25, 2008, 01:18:32 am

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Quote from: Wash Cycle on April 20, 2008, 08:50:31 pm

yeah I had that reaction one time recently after watching a movie, and I distinctly remember having that kind of thing going on after watching this interview tape of a family friend who died recently.. he had escaped from some extermination camp in poland during the last stages of the final solution and made it here somehow and eventually was a consultant to Spielberg when he made Schindler's List... pretty powerful fucking stuff. I remember when I was 10 years old he showed me the tattoo on his arm and I fucking cried. It actually is bringing back tears now just thinking about it.

Christ. I'm currently taking a course on Nazi cinema and cinematic representations of the Holocaust for my history degree and simply because of the subject matter it's been the most emotionally involving, not to mention overwhelming thing I've ever studied. Of course, a great deal of what we've been looking at has been modern cinema and the different kinds of representation of the Holocaust in films rather than the actual history of the event itself, but still, y'know? It's such a perversely fascinating yet utterly heartbreaking and Absolutely Fucking Awful thing to look at really.

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#35 April 25, 2008, 02:50:20 am

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Quote from: Fire Mage on April 23, 2008, 08:46:43 pm

what is this from (mulholland dr considering you posted about it right after??)???

It's from A Clockwork Orange. It's a really sad scene.

Also since I'm posting again I'll just say Hotel Rwanda. I was reminded about it in ASE's zoo thread. The scene where the foreigners are being evacuated but all the rwandans have to stay behind is one of the saddest things I think I've ever seen. Just so many little things about that scene. Like, the hotel employee holding the umbrella over the cameraman, even though he's being left behind to die. Or the fact that a dog is allowed on the bus over humans. It's the only movie I've seen in recent memory that made me cry.

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#36 April 25, 2008, 02:58:38 am

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Quote from: Strangeluv on April 21, 2008, 11:53:38 pm

That Life Aquatic scene was cool. I like the song used (Sigur Ros - "Staralfur") more than the scene though!

man I love that. I think the whole film is pretty powerful though. Something about it has this really tired "what the hell happened to me?" kind of feel. I found the film hilarious and was laughing a lot throughout, but I also felt quite somber and very alone by the end of it.

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#37 April 25, 2008, 03:25:24 am

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Quote from: Lyndon on April 25, 2008, 02:58:38 am

man I love that. I think the whole film is pretty powerful though. Something about it has this really tired "what the hell happened to me?" kind of feel. I found the film hilarious and was laughing a lot throughout, but I also felt quite somber and very alone by the end of it.

yeah that would be the wes anderson touch (read: ANY OTHER WES ANDERSON MOVIE EVER).

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#38 April 25, 2008, 08:16:09 am

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Quote from: Impeal on April 25, 2008, 02:50:20 am

It's from A Clockwork Orange. It's a really sad scene.

Also since I'm posting again I'll just say Hotel Rwanda. I was reminded about it in ASE's zoo thread. The scene where the foreigners are being evacuated but all the rwandans have to stay behind is one of the saddest things I think I've ever seen. Just so many little things about that scene. Like, the hotel employee holding the umbrella over the cameraman, even though he's being left behind to die. Or the fact that a dog is allowed on the bus over humans. It's the only movie I've seen in recent memory that made me cry.

By a similar token The Killing Fields is a fantastic movie (spoilers coming up, so be warned if you haven't seen it!) - the foreigners being evacuated while the locals are left behind comment reminded me a lot of The Killing Fields. It's basically a story of friendship set upon the backdrop of Pol Pot's 'Year Zero' campaign. Seeing anyone who spoke a language other than the native one being dragged off and shot was pretty sad. The whole fact that Dith Pran had to pretend to be a simpleton just to avoid getting killed was pretty horrible - as was the bit where he's leaving the camp and has to wade through that swamp-like area packed with dead bodies. The most emotional part was the end where him and Sydney get reunited though - I thought that whole part was really well done.

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#39 April 28, 2008, 01:16:15 am

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Quote from: Impeal on April 25, 2008, 02:50:20 am

It's from A Clockwork Orange. It's a really sad scene.

ah that is on my list of movies to watch, and i have the book as well but i haven't been able to read it yet.

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#40 April 28, 2008, 02:08:44 am

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If anyone can find it, I'd HIGHLY recommend watching Dekalog (Or The Decalogue as it is called in English). It's a Polish film series released in 1989, originally made as a television miniseries. It consists of ten one-hour films, each of which represents one of the Ten Commandments and explores possible meanings of the commandment—often ambiguous or contradictory—within a fictional story set in modern Poland. The order in which you watch the 10 films has no relevance - although certain prominent characters in one film will often show up as characters in the background of the other films. Each film leaves you with a profound sense of meaning... it's just amazing.

(I do own a box DVD set of the films... if anyone is interested in them I could rip them and put them up on the Zoo).

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