Grave for Fireflies wins hands down for me… In fact, it affects me so strongly that even an article about the film or a poster can leave me feeling blue… Most films that are mentioned in this thread are depressing possibly because are exceptionally tender, the situations felt with a deep poignancy that communicates to us… Maybe all life is depressing and when life truly appears in film it never fails to depress us or in a different reading, takes us into a state of gentle contemplation…
I was 18, on the verge of adulthood and I had just been given a broadband connection. I don’t know what I was looking for – maybe it was smut – but I ended up watching Pasolini’s ‘120 days of Sodom’. Needless to say it changed how I viewed films, or for that matter got me started on thinking of films. There was a deep feeling that I was trespassing on something that I was not qualified to see, a sense of violation and utter, screaming panic as the walls of years of Catholic education came crashing down. I still have not been able to figure out what it was that Pasolini did, but I started watching films from then on, seeking them out relentlessly.
At 20 I saw Tarkovsky’s ‘Sacrifice’. I have never felt the same sense of introspective calm within me. As I was playing the film, my roommate who is generally not interested in films, happened to pass by. I saw him pause, and then come sit next to me in silence and we watched the film together. It was a strange moment of communion, a feeling of sharing in a ritual.
Films where paintings/photos come to life almost 3 years ago
I think a very good example is Raul Ruiz’s The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting. A very stimulating film I may add.
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Most depressing film you have ever seen? almost 3 years ago
Grave for Fireflies wins hands down for me… In fact, it affects me so strongly that even an article about the film or a poster can leave me feeling blue… Most films that are mentioned in this thread are depressing possibly because are exceptionally tender, the situations felt with a deep poignancy that communicates to us… Maybe all life is depressing and when life truly appears in film it never fails to depress us or in a different reading, takes us into a state of gentle contemplation…
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what film changed you over 2 years ago
I was 18, on the verge of adulthood and I had just been given a broadband connection. I don’t know what I was looking for – maybe it was smut – but I ended up watching Pasolini’s ‘120 days of Sodom’. Needless to say it changed how I viewed films, or for that matter got me started on thinking of films. There was a deep feeling that I was trespassing on something that I was not qualified to see, a sense of violation and utter, screaming panic as the walls of years of Catholic education came crashing down. I still have not been able to figure out what it was that Pasolini did, but I started watching films from then on, seeking them out relentlessly.
At 20 I saw Tarkovsky’s ‘Sacrifice’. I have never felt the same sense of introspective calm within me. As I was playing the film, my roommate who is generally not interested in films, happened to pass by. I saw him pause, and then come sit next to me in silence and we watched the film together. It was a strange moment of communion, a feeling of sharing in a ritual.
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