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bleakest most depressing movie ever?

posted 16 years ago by waltercronkite
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??? I've seen a lot of really dark movies like "The Reflecting Skin" and "The hours" but i think this one takes the cake. Everything about it is disturbing taken on a literal or a symbolic level. Almost all the dialogue, most of the acting and everything in the storyline. I can't imagine a movie more depressing then one where all the main characters are murdered by the end and to top it off ath the very end a child commits suicide and then the world apparently enters armagedon.

btw I loved it and to be honest agreed with most of the philosophy (sp) of the movie and the characters dialogue disturbingly enough.

[–] goodf3lla 16 years ago

I see where you're coming from but I found it too surreal to be set in the real world - first film i think of when people mention depressing is Lilja 4 Ever http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300140/ - The film starts off with a 16 year old girl being abandoned by her mother who runs away with her lover to America and then things just go downhill for her from there on :|

[–] DilvishW 15 years ago

Try Shura or Come and See.

[–] dalldorfw 15 years ago

Little Miss Sunshine. Ha, ha (no really).

[–] gavriloprinciple 15 years ago

Come and See is simply brilliant! It is depressing but very human. And with humans there is always a tiny hint of the possibility of hope...

But I have to say that the most brutal film that I have ever seen (and numerous times) has to be Threads. It wouldn't get much bleaker if one would stare black screen for couple of hours. But it is an important film ("funnily" made for TV) for the whole damn mankind! I saw it as a kid for the first time and it really scared me but also gave hope that these are human decisions, they are not set in stone. We can change the world. And you know what, cold war ended. I know that those warheads are still waiting like some satanic fingers of doom, but at least we can breath more freely.

"zoom back camera"

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[–] FunshineBear1 13 years ago

TPFWWM has a pretty happy ending.

[–] infestorOfSouls 13 years ago

naked by mike leigh is hands down the bleakest and most depressing film ever (imho)

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[–] lunchboxattacks 13 years ago

[Quote]naked by mike leigh is hands down the bleakest and most depressing film ever (imho) [/Qoute]

OK, I know that a person's of a film or any creative work for that matter will be shaped by their view of the world, their expectations and their experiences but that film was hilarious! Now it was blackly comic and not everyone likes that and most of the characters in the film were in a dead end in one way or another, plus the nasty landlord but Johnny is one of the best British tragicomic creations to be put on film in my opinion. He's a pretty troubled guy to say the least but almost everything he says, including rants, is at least engaging, if not hilarious.

*Johnny making fun of angry Scottish guy's nervous tick*

Angry Scotch bloke : You tekkin' deh p*ss?!!

Johnny : You're *beep* givin' it aweh!

I'm a Mike Leigh fan.......

[–] latherzap 14 years ago

Most depressing? Nah. For most depressing I'd nominated Dead Ringers as well as Last Exit to Brooklyn.

[–] kirkwuk 14 years ago

Salo is by far the most depressing film.

[–] franzkabuki 13 years ago

No, but it´s quite certainly the most hysteria-stricken movie I´ve ever seen. And it also gives Raising Arizona a good run for its money as a film with the most yelling in it.

It IS undeniably bleak and unforgiving, though.

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

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[–] Chris_Oblivion 13 years ago

Kichiku Dai Enkai, and Martyrs are two pretty bleak films.

Sid woz ere

[–] melinda2001 9 years ago

For depressing, see Eraserhead (1977).
For bleak, see A torinói ló (2011).