Scenes of Humiliation

Watching In The Company Of Men prompted me to make this thread. (Yes, I know i'm supposed to be finishing my Top 100 but i'm fine tuning a few things )

I have come to realise that sometimes, death scenes aren't the most awful things that can happen to a character. Sometimes scenes of humiliation can be more uncomfortable to see than a death scene.

Now, this is a slightly tricky thread because I imagine people have different views on what constitutes humiliation. This thread can include gross out humour, rape, people made fun of, etc.

Both versions of Haneke's Funny Games had a lot of scenes of humiliation. The scene where one of the antagonists force the husband to make his wife strip in front of them all. Pretty sick stuff.

So can anybody else mention films with such disturbing scenes?

The best scene I can think of is Carrie

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I forgot all about Carrie to be honest. Yeah, they did some pretty horrific **** to that girl.

Pulp Fiction's infamous rape scene kinda has a bit of dark humour to it, so it never felt as bad as it probably should have been. Good call guys.

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The Funny Games US. scene was pretty disturbing. Pretty wierd movie all in all.
Another one comes to mind. The scene from Trainspotting. Where one of the guys has had a little "accident" in bed. Not sure if it's allowed to post videos of such things. But when he flung the sheet and the.. Hrm.. content went all over the place... :s

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The scene in Crash where office Ryan (Matt Dylan) searches Terrance Howard's wife in front of him.

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Before anyone else says it; the "squeal like a pig" rape scene from Deliverance. I have more, but I'll get to them later.

Mean Creek, the scene where George finds out about the prank. Sooo painful to watch, it literally hurts my insides.

If You have never seen this film do not watch this, watch the whole thing, otherwise the pain and humiliation that (Lawrence Monoson ) must have felt in this movie is pretty awful to watch.

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There's quite a few scenes in Blue Velvet that I'd consider "favourites"...

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I find humiliation scenes to be the worst because every one can relate to those types of scenes. Like most actual humiliation scenes could actualy happen.

The scene in The Shawshank Redemption was fairly hard to watch when the fat guy got beat down on his first night.

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All good responses guys. You lot have made me remember quite a few.

Igor, great call on that scene from Mean Creek . It's a great scene and like you said, is hard to watch. I had loads in my head the other day but i'm really not able to blurt anything out..

You mention the "I'm not even supposed to be here" guy, but you fail to mention Andy's multiple rapings by The Sisters?

I had a few, as well, but can't seem to think of them at the moment.

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The opening scene from Just Friends was pretty traumatizing, for the main character.

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I thought of this one immediately. In American History X where they raid that little grocery store and some of the gang members terrorize that latino lady that works there. They pour milk and food all over her.

She's stripping and he's humiliated????

That scene never made any sense to me: the old cons start hollering and the new con alone in his own cell starts boo-hooing (that's gotta be the least crowded prison ever, with private rooms for everyone)? Like he's never heard the old sticks-and-stones advice? And then the guards beat him up for making noise? How'd they ever hear him over the rest of the racket?

It's simply one of those "let's shock 'em with a scarey fake prison scene" ploys. James Cahn gives a much better and more realistic description of adapting to prison life in Thief.

Have you seen The Shape of Things? Don't want to spoil the movie for anyone who hasn't seen it, but yeah, that film. Another LaBute so if you liked In the Company of Men or are for whatever reason seeking humiliation scenes in films, you should check it out.