I’m gonna say: Requiem for a Dream
While I agree, it’s honestly not one of aronofsky’s most fucked up movies imo.
I don’t know all of his stuff, though Mother! was pretty stressful to watch.
Grave of the Fireflies
It is the greatest movie that I will never, ever, watch again.
It was originally screened with My Neighbor Totoro……
Btw I agree. It’s an absolutely devastatingly beautiful movie.
it was originally screened with My Neighbor Totoro…
Oh man. That’s entire theatre loads of traumatized children. 😵💫
I’m pretty sure they put them together because that’s how you keep everyone from becoming suicidally depressed after watching Grave of the Fireflies D:
Event Horizon
Yea there’s something to this movie, even though it’s kinda b-grade sci-fi horror. The idea and its presentation has something can get under your skin … including “that scene” (if you know you know).
I watched it as fairly young kid, at home alone, with most lights off (never being really bothered by horror), and no horror movie has troubled me more than that as I fell asleep thinking about if “that place” actually exists.
The movie has an interesting story about how so much was cut or couldn’t even be filmed and the editing ended up all over the place, the movie ist barely coherent at times. But the feeling I got just thinking about that place was captivating nonetheless, great movie. Captures the vastness and loneliness of space well imo
This may be a basic film-bro™ answer, but Oldboy is a good baseline for “kinda fucked up” but also “really really good”. It’s even better on the second viewing. I even recommend watching Spike Lee’s misguided remake, because it makes you seriously appreciate the artistry behind what Park Chan-Wook was doing.
Kids
Very good, but very fucked up. Hit close to home in the lifestyle I lived as a teenager, just luck that things didn’t end up like they did in the movie.
