I almost feel inclined to consider "Happiness" as one of the most (if not
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r_buro — 10 years ago(January 06, 2016 04:35 AM)
Nothing remotely disturbing about it frsaken-ot? Let me guess you turned it off before the beep pedophile shows up? There are truly disturbing scenes in this revolving around the rape of a child. IF you didn't find this at least a little disturbing something it wrong with you. Saying that I love this movie.
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JuniorMints — 12 years ago(September 02, 2013 06:27 PM)
I didn't find it disturbing at all. I thought it was really funny.
Dark comedy at its best!!!!
I've only recently started watching Solondz's movies, starting with
Dark Horse
, which I stumbled upon on Netflix. After that I watched
Life During Wartime
and
Storytelling
. I think the guy is a brilliant writer and director and he has the ability to take horrid situations and make them hilarious.
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Happiness
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james_logan_howlett — 12 years ago(November 15, 2013 08:23 PM)
I just recently saw A Serbian Film it was far more disturbing. Others I have seen that rank up there are Oldboy,Martyrs, Irreversible, August Underground's Mordum, The War Zone, Twentynine Palms, I haven't seen them(but supposedly Takashi Miike's films are all very disturbing.
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sybil_vane31 — 12 years ago(February 14, 2014 07:09 PM)
I think the Op referred to a different type of disturbing. I agree with you sa a jaw dropping-visuale shocking serbian film is the top one, even thought I didn't think much of it, they were so busy trying to put so much violence concentrate together that forgot to give a story line to top it up the acting wasn't that great ether.
As per sycological disturbing I think martyrs are way better, and the acting if fabulous. This film is disturbing in a way of realization that this things (pedophilia) happens everyday. -
JellyFish19 — 11 years ago(July 05, 2014 07:16 AM)
I don't know, this seemed like a dark comedy to me, the ending had me laughing uncontrollably for a whole minute. I find some Lars von Trier films or just old gory slasher flicks more uncomfortable and harder to sit through.
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Postal_Dude_Paradise_AZ — 11 years ago(October 30, 2014 03:21 PM)
Try this one
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SDTripper — 11 years ago(February 01, 2015 10:38 PM)
I just saw this film. I chose it because I have never seen a Phillip Seymour Hoffman performance that was bad-ever. And he certainly did not disappoint here, although I too found this to be an extremely disturbing film that was horrifying to watch.
If you like disturbing films, this is a good one to pick even though I almost didn't finish it; it was just too gross in some parts. Another hard-to-watch darkly disturbing film is Dogtooth. -
drgnndblls88 — 10 years ago(July 26, 2015 12:37 PM)
I wouldn't call it disturbing, just a very dark comedy. I mean, people like that actually exist in the real world, and that's just how it isit's like an insight into the uglier parts of human society. I will say, I feel like it's not as stone-cold realistic as some people say it is, it's definitely a "movie".
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writejulia — 10 years ago(October 08, 2015 11:31 PM)
I think this movie is disturbing because it forces us to confront extremely uncomfortable, dark situations head on, and thus unsettles us. It also provides little to no clue as to its tone from the very beginning, creating a deeply unsettling atmosphere. Is this a comedy? A satire? A look at how bleak human existence can be? It's a little bit of everything.
I loved it, I laughed a lot, but I also find it to be a disturbing movie.