What's the saddest, most heartbreaking, and most viscerally depressing piece of media you've seen? Like, what have you viewed that just made you feel like total shit? I'm talking about stuff that makes you feel existentially insecure, like you get the sense that your life could end at any moment and it wouldn't make the slightest difference in the grand scheme of the universe.
I'll start with pic related, as it ends on an extremely pessimistic note that gave me the bad feels.
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Any Michael Haneke.
Essential depressioncore in pic related.
Soviet cinema has lots of prime choices for this category.
I remember "Snowtown" making me feel extremely bad and uncomfortable.
Depressing in a good way, I'd say.
Naked by Mike Leigh
Bela Tarr films. Especially Werckmeister Harmonies and The Turin Horse. Some Angelopoulos films like Landscape in the Mist and Eternity and a Day.
This is a good list.
I haven't heard hardly anyone talk about pic related since it was first released, which is too bad because it's pretty damn grim and unsettling. A strange bearded homeless man who's possibly a demon worms his way into the lives of a suburban family, which eventually leads to insanity and violence.
This was probably the worst one I have seen recently.
Even just the OST of Last Life in the Universe puts me down.
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Some of Takeshi Kitano's films are depressing sometimes fatalistic imo.
Kikujiro
Sonatine
Hana-bi
watch kagemusha aswell. late kurosawa is so fun, he went from his usual optimism "the world sucks but good people can make a difference" to "the world sucks and it will fuck you up sooner or later lmao, fuck all of this". he based
The English Surgeon
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
The Machinist
Michael (2011)
Pi
An Anorexic's Tale: The Brief Life of Catherine
grave of the fireflies
i avoided ikiru for a long time because i didnt want to get more depressed but its actually a really uplifting and hopeful movie. cant put this movie right below lilja 4-ever. its just wrong
Historical pieces on the BBC where they give out the roles of French Catholic queens and Norman lords to talentless sub Saharan African Jews like the platypus faced Sophie Okonedo.
>Last Life in the Universe
I could never find this in good quality. Was it ever released in HD?
Once Upon a Time in America
I never found any as well. AFAIK there's only the typical DVD quality.
Dvd only
meant for
Gotta agree with the latter two, but
>Kikujiro
was more tough and bittersweet than overtly sad. Worth to watch, tho.
Lilya 4 ever
This one hits pretty hard if you're a robot
Just pure misery. shitty locations, rape, violence and boredom.
Pusher 2
Watching my childhood videos
they show this on the gymnasium wall so the WHOLE FUCKING SCHOOL could see it at the same time.
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