'Hell Bound'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Schindler's breakdown at the end
This is the scene that made me cry the second time I watched it.
Does THE PIANIST count?
That was a brutal movie. I feel like it wasn't manipulative on purpose; it was just so unflinchingly objective about the whole thing that it hurt.
On an unrelated note:
One thing I've been noticing more and more lately is books...honest to God published books...using the phrase "should of" rather than "should've".
It's making me fucking NUTS!!
Is this common now? Is this acceptable now? WTFF?!?!?!
Is this common now? Is this acceptable now? WTFF?!?!?!
Publishing has changed and books often don't get edited. Just copyedited. And then not always by a very good copyeditor. So, it's due mostly to cost cutting, I think.
I see a lot of people "pouring over" some deep thought. Always makes me wince. Except for when it's funny.
I've never seen The Pianist, but I've read that Roman Polanski is reportedly one of the inspirations for the young protagonist of Kosinski's The Painted Bird. I can only assume that he would have a pretty fucked-up take on the Holocaust.
The amount of history my parents prepped me with just laid the foundation for me collapsing when presented with a half-decently told tale of racial cruelty in the deep south, the middle passage, and then by extension up through any genocide. I don't know if Amistad was a good movie. It doesn't matter that I've seen more graphic. Sitting in the theatre watching Djimon's character swim towards the sun made it all hit all over again.
I feel like it wasn't manipulative on purpose; it was just so unflinchingly objective about the whole thing that it hurt.
"Unflichingly objective" is a pretty good description of Polanski's best work. With The Pianist, he also had some personal connection with the subject, which I'm sure added to that trait.
I don't know if Amistad was a good movie.
I'm right there with you on that. I do know that there are certain scenes that haunt me. It also is on the Never Can Watch Again list.
It also is on the Never Can Watch Again list.
Heh. I should send you Ponette. That'd kill you dead.
Uh...not that I want you dead.
Heh. I should send you Ponette. That'd kill you dead.
You sadist. Why don't you just send her Mouchette and Au hasard Balthazar while you're at it.