This is a good thread.
I feel like I should have many, but I don’t.
I remember being very unsettled by
Spirited Away for a long time – it wasn’t the thing itself so much as the ending. I remember thinking that the type of person I am, I would have fallen for the trap and assumed
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my parents were among the pigs
my parents were among the pigs
. The feeling was then reinforced when I was doing all kinds of tests, especially non-humanities. In humanities the easiest thing for me was to deconstruct the question and parse the whole thing, but more technical stuff, I was always thinking,
Here I am,
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choosing from the existing pigs.
choosing from the existing pigs.
Though I have always loved graphic horror,
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Ruth’s legs melting in Dante’s Peak
Ruth’s legs melting in Dante’s Peak
did give me a jolt, I’ve referenced this before. Other than that, I think
The Human Centipede stayed with me for some time after the first viewing, especially the little details, the kind of thing I shouldn’t have noticed, given how over the top the film is – such
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as the drop of pus that appears where Ashley’s mouth is attached to the other person.
as the drop of pus that appears where Ashley’s mouth is attached to the other person.
I think about it now and it’s not that I was traumatised, but it did fill me with a deep sense of unease and that I was sick to be watching it.
My mother was asleep a few feet away from me in a Paris hotel room as I watched it, so I think there as a vague sense of the whole thing being dirty and distasteful for me to have been doing. I don’t know if I’ve necessarily ‘recovered’. I keep watching extremely graphic stuff but, ironically, it’s the
Dante’s Peak scene that I still find unsettling now, rather than
The Human Centipede.