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Top five movies that shook me to the core

posted 9 years ago by stonekeeper_ever
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1. Requiem for a dream
2. The Pianist
3. Biutiful
4. Midnight Cowboy and Papillon
5. Once were warriors

What I mean is that each of those movies made me sad, traumatized me and changed my perception of life. I just finished Biutiful And I stayed there sitting on my couch in the shock and awe for a minute or two. All of those movies are now in my top 20. except for once were warriors. What is your opinion? Do you have any suggestions for me?
Cheers movie lovers!

[–] leo-hork-na 9 years ago

I like it when I see a movie that scars. I think you may like Turtles Can Fly, The Hunt, A Separation, 21 Grams (same director as Biutiful), The Burning Plain, The Skin I Live In, Irreversible. Different kinds of scars, though.

[–] stonekeeper_ever 9 years ago

Thanks for your recommendations I'll definitely check those out. 21 grams was good, no more. 7/10. Irreversible was Definitely a shocker!. (What with the rape scene And the fire extinguisher) Liked it a lot. 8.5/10 The very last scene before the credits (The one that's dangerous for epileptic people) is like a drug to me. If you haven't tried it, Watch it with no lights on in your living room. Come back to me after...Your TV screen should change sizes and what not. All my good friends had to experience it! (You can also find the scene on YouTube and watch it on your computer screen)

Excuse my English, I am French-Canadian

[–] leo-hork-na 9 years ago

Yes, Irreversible is a trippy piece of cinema, have you seen Enter the Void? It's a bit of an uncomfortable movie, but it's sorta decent and trippy overall, although I was a dissapointed when I read an interview where the director said he doesn't believe in any kind of afterlife and well, I thought, why make a movie about the afterlife when you don't even believe in it? That's phony. I mean, Kubrick did 2001, but he actually believed in it, he believed (or at least speculated) in superior aliens forcing humans into evolution.

[–] stonekeeper_ever 8 years ago

Enter the void played on TV once and I recorded it but somehow the end did not record so I missed the last 20 minutes so I bought the movie and I own it since a couple of months and I haven't got around to watching it in whole yet. Definitely a funked up movie though.

[–] Freaky_styley92 8 years ago

I completely agree, I love watching films that challenge me, The skin I live in, The hunt and Biutiful all did this for me (haven't seen the others you mentioned).

[–] terrytsilvester 8 years ago

mine would be;

1. Irreversible
2. Kill List
3. Requiem for a dream
4. Twin Peaks: Fire walk with me
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

[–] Brendan86 8 years ago

It sounds like a cliche, but films like Biutiful are life changing for me. A film that magnifies the blurriness of life, the delicate mixture between everydayness and death while bringing a startling yet clarifying realization of our own mortality. It's an alchemy of beauty, love and grim despair that paints the resonant shades in this film. You want to grab onto it, like when Uxbal hugs his daughter in a final embrace and she hears her Father's heartbeat breathing the last of his life into her. But it's already gone. The moment is transfixing.

Inarritu's direction emotionally assails the viewer in poetic imagery and pure visual intricacies. The vivid, textural soundtrack by Gustavo Santaolalla highlights the richness of the images. The worldly instrumentation swirls in the multicultural landscape depicted onscreen. But without the lived-in authenticity of Bardem's creation of Uxbal, you would just be left dumbfounded by captivating images. Without Bardem, a full heart and a pathos would be missing. He disarms you with his well travelled eyes and a relentless sense of humanity.

I'd have to say after 5 years or so, Biutiful is still one of my favorite films.
Along with (for the moment):

Tree of Life
Magnolia
Blue Valentine
Taxi Driver

5 more I love:

Short Term 12
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Before Sunset
In America
Brokeback Mountain

If anyone can recommend a film similar to Biutiful I would appreciate it.

[–] stonekeeper_ever 8 years ago

Not only the movie but the special features were life changing for me too with a video of how the film was made and of the people that made it. Have you seen it?

[–] metallicatt731 8 years ago

I would add 21 Grams, Magnolia and House of Sand and Fog to your list.

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