Uncomfortable Moments in Film

[boxy]

What are the moments in cinema that have made you the most uncomfortable?

For me;

Once Were Warriors - the whole film, actually. Right from the beginning, it (quite deliberately, I think) invoked that feeling of "something isn't right". It was definitely worth experiencing, but I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it again since the first time (despite buying the DVD with just that intention, it's still in it's plastic wrap). The drinking culture, the bullying, the accepting of both... and the inevitable death. Just too realistic.

Reservoir Dogs - that torture scene, and all that follows. The most realistic depiction of torture in film. Not clean. No stoic resistance. Just the dirty, ugly, vicious truth.

[J.W. Frogen]

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like victory."

[J.W. Frogen]

But then I have good moments too

"For god's sake, Mrs. Robinson. Here we are. You got me into your house. You give me a drink. You... put on music. Now you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won't be home for hours."

[sprintcyclist]

boxy - unfortunately "once were warriors" is a very realistic movie. I was a kiwi, it had 3 ......errors in it.
1/ the "initiation" scene. In reality, it takes a few years, like an apprenticeship, they can't show that in a movie, too long.
2/ the tattoos the gang members had on their faces. typically they are done in prisons with compasses etc
the tattoos are NOT "neat".
3/ the gangs themselves stink in real life. From across the street, they stink. They make you recoil.




A movie I find very hard to watch is "The Passion of The Christ."
I feel it was overdone, but aside from that, quite accurate.

[J.W. Frogen]

Jesus took one hell of a death whooping, I will give him that.

He was one of the few pacifists who knew how to fight back.

[donniedarko]

The scene in 'Happiness' where phillip hoffman is talking on the phone and wanking at the same time.......and then when he blows load on the wall he sticks a postcard on the jizz

The scene in 'Happiness' where the son grills his dad about the dad's pedophilia..

....the movie 'happiness'...

[Machiavella]

What are the moments in cinema that have made you the most uncomfortable?

For me;

Once Were Warriors - the whole film, actually. ...

This film completely overwhelmed me at the time to a point where I was actually sobbing at the end.

Usually I'm very uncomfortable in war movies and movies with (gratuitous) physical violence. I dont mind a good dose of psychological biffo though

Mr. Bean (that guy with the rubbery physique) often makes me uncomfortable.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Has anyone seen "Lovely Bones?" I ask because the rape/murder scene in the novel was painful for me as I have a daughter. I want to see the movie but may not as it may be "uncomfortable."

[Hebe]

It's stuffed full of Peter Jackson's typically dazzling imagery, but The Lovely Bones suffers from abrupt shifts between horrific violence and cloying sentimentality.

From Rotten Tomatoes.

[boxy]

What are the moments in cinema that have made you the most uncomfortable?

For me;

Once Were Warriors - the whole film, actually. ...

This film completely overwhelmed me at the time to a point where I was actually sobbing at the end.

Usually I'm very uncomfortable in war movies and movies with (gratuitous) physical violence. I dont mind a good dose of psychological biffo though

Saving Private Ryan, where the "green" ammo runner freezes on the stairs, when he could easily have helped his comrade who was hand to hand with an enemy, and subsequently died while he sat sobbing only metres away is another moment for me. But it's as much for the psychological biffo, of that guy having to live the rest of his life knowing that he failed when it came to the physical application of what he had long studied intellectually.

Mr. Bean (that guy with the rubbery physique) often makes me uncomfortable.

Rowan Atkinson is a bloody genius... too bad about the movies though