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Stress and anxiety while watching ?

posted 9 years ago by rousss
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I don't know what it was about that one shot effect in that movie but I felt so anxious and stressed for the whole two hours + of this movie. Don't get me wrong, I'm the type of guy to watch all the movies, even the most *beep* up ones, and I'm never usually affected as I was during this one.

It's funny but I visited Berlin two weeks ago and I think they got the nightlife crazy atmosphere pretty dead on.

Of course you could say they took a really stupid decision to go party after the heist...

I'll have to watch it again I guess but as of now this is really a special film for me.

[–] crackedvenom 9 years ago

I've got terrible anxiety and i love horror movies, even *beep* up ones as you say. I've seen tons of different ones. And funny someone mentions this because yeah, i felt this movie gave me more anxiety than most horrors. It was weird.

[–] ukrdat 9 years ago

If films give you anxiety, you probably should relax more, drink more green tea... and see a doctor.

[–] WoodCheese 9 years ago

Drink green tea that's a source of caffeine and one of the primary substances to cause anxiety? Great advice.

[–] joeljdevlin 8 years ago

you may actually be legally retarded

[–] koholintisland 8 years ago

"If you get an emotional response from watching something made specifically to give you an emotional response you must be unwell"

[–] Line-of-Flight 9 years ago

Yeah it's weird they go partying, but don't forget, they are high on drugs.

[–] HarmenB 9 years ago

Don't forget alcohol! Lots of it.

[–] djzen-1 9 years ago

yes indeed same happened to me! Also felt like being part of the movie, strange but cool!

[–] fejsbukmejl1 9 years ago

yeah me too, i thought it's just because new year's eve hangover from yesterday. so i see it's probably that, interesting.

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[–] zivkov 9 years ago

I felt the same way.
Especially when the policed started chasing them. I jumped from my chair, I felt like they were chasing me.

[–] onhusk 9 years ago

Part of that is what you're used to when watching a film. You're sitting there subconsciously waiting for a cut that never comes. The camera staying with a character naturally builds tension, even if the character is doing something mundane. Add all the story tension to it and you're going to get anxious.

[–] darkfrances (47) 6 years ago

Yeah, I totally had to remind myself about that several times! Like the moment when she's crying in the end, and I was thinking after a while "come on enough of that, we got the idea!". Then I rembered that it was one single take, so of course she'd be crying for quite a while, people don't normally squirt a few tears and move on that fast. It was just that I was used with the rhythm of "normal" movies...

[–] keromcun 9 years ago

i was actually about to post a threat about this. i had to pause the movie when the car turned off on Victoria. i read somewhere else, someone said how the format of the movie immerses the audience into the movie and i feel like that's the cause of the anxiety. i felt like i was in the car with her freaking out at the same time. and i feel like i would have done the same thing as her if i was also asked to join the group of men in their "mission". i feel like this is because all the characters seemed so real and regular people that you would meet out in the city. reading the synopsis i came into the movie with the preconceived notion that the men would be primal criminals but they were all just placed in a really bad situation and they dealt with it the best as they could.

[–] luiza_giacchino 9 years ago

I started watching already really tired and ready to go to sleep. The tension the movie caused surprisingly made me stay awake for a long time, but I was so freaking tired I was going to stop at about 1h23min, but decided to wait until 1h25min, just because. That was when the car stopped working and it was so real-life stressful, it was like I got a shot of adrenaline, which was enough to get me awake till the end of the movie and even a couple of hours after that! Impressive movie, very impressive.