OK, indulge me. What are your top 5 films that leave the audience feeling cynical, dark, or spiritually violated? (Not that that's a bad feeling for a film to give...)
In the Company of Men
Your Friends and Neighbors
The Ice Storm
The Magdelene Sisters
Amores Perros
"It's a good deal...it's a good deal for ME!"
Mystic River - definately agree with that one
. i came out of that film feeling like i'd just been given electro-shock therapy and a liberal dose of thorazine.
the ice storm, well, the title says it all. frozen, emotionally-vacant, souless cold-war like stares from the machinery of human parts, cast in a small silent holocost.
The Ice Storm
The Hours
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Finding Neverland
Terms of Endearment
I get Ice Storm and Cuckoo's Nest, but I'm curious as to what you find cynical about Finding Neverland and Terms of Endearment. When I think if a cynical film, I think of a film that makes you feel hopeless and not inclined to trust or emote any more.
"It's a good deal...it's a good deal for ME!"
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What about House of Games? I haven't seen that one listed yet. I saw it a long time ago but I seem to remember it as pretty cynical.
sharein no particular order...just some films that seem kinda dark: (these are mostly dark-humoured)
-the virgin suicides
-the ice storm
-american beauty
-garden state (although not especially sad or anything...just dark at times)
closer
the door in the floor
-to die for
-election
-capote
-fight club
-jawbreaker
-prozac nation
-thirteen
-pretty persuasion
-mystic river
-the shining
-love story
-pulp fiction & kill bill (my altime favorite tarantino films)
-monster
-crash
and a lot more im sure
*the ice storm was excellent---great cast, unique storyline
"you must be the change you want to see in the world' GHANDI (a cool dude)
what a *beep* list, worst yet
sharethe most devastating film I've seen is Mysterious Skin. even though it's about survivors, I walked out of the cinema wondering why anyone would want to be alive in this world where people can cause each other so much pain
and even though(SPOILER)
the final scene has an indication they might help each other actually heal, I still felt emotionally pulverised. having said that, I think it's a brilliantly made, beautiful film and well worth seeing - just when you're feeling strong.
also Dancer in the Dark & Zentropa (I have now learnt not to watch films by that director)
Mal? Guy killed me with a sword, Mal. How weird is that?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Not sure on the other 4 yet...
Most of the big ones I'd point out have been mentioned, except, and I find this odd, Swimming With Sharks. I can't believe no one has pointed this movie out yet. I found the ending to be incredibly dark and cynical.
-Bad waves of paranoia. Madness. Fear and loathing.-