Impact of film similar to the suicides?

I find that the film's effect even years after seeing it has a profoundly haunting effect on you that is both beautiful and disturbing. In many ways the girls and their suicides have this effect on the boys.

Now I will state that I have no idea what it's like to witness a 13 year old commit suicide so ghastly in front of their entire family and a group of strangers, or what it's like to witness people killing themselves en group right in front of you. I imagine that much of the fascination and obsession the boys have actually stems from the traumatization of witnessing first Cecilia commit suicide and then the others.

I saw this when I was 7 in Summer-Early fall 2001, my sisters had rented it they were 11 and 13. The younger one had her moody phase around this time. I remember distinctly my first exposure to certain images from the film (the inkblot test, the railing of the staircase, and how my sister likened it to that of a friend's own railing at her house, tampons in the closet, Trip in his pool, taping the bracelets over Cecilia's bandages, the empty house and the whistling in the score) and being severely disturbed by the scene of the gasmasks at the debutante party.

I've seen it several times since 2001

The depiction of the 70s reminds me of certain pictures from the early 2000s, going to a playground down the street form my house, a tanktop the younger sister of mine used to wear around that time, and watching One Saturday Morning on abc.

How about you have you guys had any similar experiences?