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Hello, everybody - this is my first post and I'm gonna go right into my question, hope you can help me..
So the title is very vague so let me put that into more accurate terms:
I'm looking for some very particular movies that sort of get to you psychological, I know this is very subjective so let me give you some examples. The thing is that I need something that has violent content and includes rape against women. The reason why I need movies like that is because I want to go and buy me some alcohol and drink myself into misery.. well and such a film would naturally add to this dismal mood I want to get in.
Now what's important about this is that I don't really want over the top movies, I am not talking about full hardcore exploitation films like "Irréversible", "A Serbian Movie", or "I spit on your Grave". I think they are trying much too hard to be disturbing and end up just being a bit silly, I didn't see the last one but from the trailer I can tell it's not what I want to see..
Now what does this mean? Hard to tell really, I can give you two good examples and two rather bad examples, perhaps this gives you a better picture.
Leaving Las Vegas: A very good example in some ways. I just watched it recently and I got pretty much what I expected. Also rape was included in a way which makes it more believable and like that it gave me more a feeling of "in your face!" which is good. The downside of this movie (at least for my criteria) is that it lacks violence, I would have enjoyed more killing and perhaps some revenge plot - but after all that's not what's the movie about.
Dredd (2012): This movie goes into a fairly different direction however it has some core elements that were very convincing, for example this dark picture of our future. First of all it has a perfect amount of violence and badassery from both main protagonists, second it is in a world full of crime and the magnitude of it becomes clear very early in the movie. This and the few subliminal suggestions (also referring to rape) leaves a lot of space for disturbing imagination, which supported my ****ed up emotional state very well.
Mad Max 2: If this movie were less cheesy I would have had exactly the experience I needed. Alas only the beginning was quite alright and truthfully the rape scene was just utter garbage (although I must admit that the first time I saw the scene it did disturb me, only later I realized that the movie has too much nonsense in it to take it seriously). And don't start talking about "The book of Eli" it just seemed like a bad rip off to me.
Riddick (2013): The movie itself is quite fun and that's the problem I guess. When the mercenaries arrive we get a very impressive picture. Apparently they have captured and abused a woman (a criminal?) for quite some time, she gets killed not long after she has been introduced which shows the viewer just how ****ed up this sci-fi world really must be. Unfortunately this was the only thing that really matters for this list here, the rest of the movie doesn't live up to the dismal notion I want to discover.
So it has been quite a text.. If anyone knows something that sort of goes into this direction I'd be very happy to take a look at it. I sincerely regret if I have offended anyone with my questions, I'm sorry for that.. Anyway, hope you can help me and have a nice time!
So the title is very vague so let me put that into more accurate terms:
I'm looking for some very particular movies that sort of get to you psychological, I know this is very subjective so let me give you some examples. The thing is that I need something that has violent content and includes rape against women. The reason why I need movies like that is because I want to go and buy me some alcohol and drink myself into misery.. well and such a film would naturally add to this dismal mood I want to get in.
Now what's important about this is that I don't really want over the top movies, I am not talking about full hardcore exploitation films like "Irréversible", "A Serbian Movie", or "I spit on your Grave". I think they are trying much too hard to be disturbing and end up just being a bit silly, I didn't see the last one but from the trailer I can tell it's not what I want to see..
Now what does this mean? Hard to tell really, I can give you two good examples and two rather bad examples, perhaps this gives you a better picture.
Leaving Las Vegas: A very good example in some ways. I just watched it recently and I got pretty much what I expected. Also rape was included in a way which makes it more believable and like that it gave me more a feeling of "in your face!" which is good. The downside of this movie (at least for my criteria) is that it lacks violence, I would have enjoyed more killing and perhaps some revenge plot - but after all that's not what's the movie about.
Dredd (2012): This movie goes into a fairly different direction however it has some core elements that were very convincing, for example this dark picture of our future. First of all it has a perfect amount of violence and badassery from both main protagonists, second it is in a world full of crime and the magnitude of it becomes clear very early in the movie. This and the few subliminal suggestions (also referring to rape) leaves a lot of space for disturbing imagination, which supported my ****ed up emotional state very well.
Mad Max 2: If this movie were less cheesy I would have had exactly the experience I needed. Alas only the beginning was quite alright and truthfully the rape scene was just utter garbage (although I must admit that the first time I saw the scene it did disturb me, only later I realized that the movie has too much nonsense in it to take it seriously). And don't start talking about "The book of Eli" it just seemed like a bad rip off to me.
Riddick (2013): The movie itself is quite fun and that's the problem I guess. When the mercenaries arrive we get a very impressive picture. Apparently they have captured and abused a woman (a criminal?) for quite some time, she gets killed not long after she has been introduced which shows the viewer just how ****ed up this sci-fi world really must be. Unfortunately this was the only thing that really matters for this list here, the rest of the movie doesn't live up to the dismal notion I want to discover.
So it has been quite a text.. If anyone knows something that sort of goes into this direction I'd be very happy to take a look at it. I sincerely regret if I have offended anyone with my questions, I'm sorry for that.. Anyway, hope you can help me and have a nice time!
