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Most of David Lynch's movies disturb with their weird blend of offbeat humor and deep-in-the-mind fears. Even his early short films such as THE ALPHABET awaken memories of childhood traumas. One can be forgiven for sometimes wondering if Lynch actually is from the Red Room.
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May 31, 2014 - 5:19 PM
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Metryq
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This will sound silly coming after all the comments above, but the closing scenes to a short anime series called SCHOOL DAYS haunted me for a couple days. Oh, I've seen lots of very graphic stuff in movies and other anime—stuff cranked to 11. But the SCHOOL DAYS ending bothered me because of the emotional quality of the scenes, and because it was unexpected.
The series is derived from a computer game, but I had never seen that. The dozen or so episodes begins with a young man in high school who is too shy to approach a woman he finds attractive. (We later learn that this is no simple crush; he liked her for topside attributes, and nothing more.) A female classmate learns of the young man's quandary and decides to help him. Her "coaching" quickly turns into something else, and the series becomes a nasty teen triangle. The story escalates in other ways, as we see all the kids doing wicked stuff at the school fair.
At the climax, one of the two women stabs the young man to death. I suppose I should have seen it coming—the young man turned into a complete horn-dog with every woman in school—but the passionate scene took me by surprise. Many Japanese TV stations refused to air that last episode. The murder scene was bad enough, but the series had one more shock to administer—we find out just how insane the other woman is. She was really disturbing.
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Interesting question Dan.
There's "off putting" disturbing like (for me) 'Cannibal Holocaust' and 'Funny Games'. Then there's effectively disturbing like 'Freaks', 'The Birds', and 'The Ascent' (directed by the wife of the 'Come and See' director).
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Yes being disturb comes in a million different ways. each one of us is effective in different ways. I mean the classic example, say you made a movie where half of it showed a bunch of people scratching their nails on the blackboard that would cause a lot of people getting up and leaving a theatre . At the same time some people can take all the stage blood in the world and it won't bother them. Then there is the personal mental things or visions that can disturb us. Often related to our own first hand or second hand experiences. from car crashes to street crime to war etc etc..It is something that also should not be argue about because there can be good reasons for it all, for each person. Reasons so deep in our psyche that it can not be cured by simply saying to them, stop it, your being silly. My sister can't stand anything that deals with eyes. So even a pg film like HORROR EXPRESS, years ago on TV was too much for her. The thought of putting in contact lenses makes her squeamish. I am very touchy when someone's head get crush in a movie, yet a knife through the stomach, does not do anything to me, unless it was real life[ha-ha] .
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