I'm quoting this because it makes me feel good.
Throw MP, MC and TG in that mix too please.
Aw, how cute.
Another vote for Dancer In The Dark here as well.
No seriously, I still haven't seen it all the way through. I just happened to catch the last 40 mins or so on TV one time. And as a Björk fan, and after liking Catherine Deneuve very much in Repulsion, I decided to have a sneak peek. I kinda got lost in the commotion of what was going on as I obviously wasn't aware of the full story. But nothing had prepared me for what lead up to that final scene. It stunned me to the core, and I almost felt my heart stop. It was quite possibly the most heartbreakingly beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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My second choice would be Andy Warhol's Blood For Dracula. This just so happened to be on TV the night I decided to drop a hefty dose of acid. I simply couldn't figure out if everyone
actually looked lizard-like, or whether it was the 'cid. The appalling OTT, yet terrifying acting did nothing but confuse me too. And this combination of confusion, terror, and laughter really left me in an awkward place. I couldn't decide how I felt about it, but my head was surely confuzzled.
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I actually went ahead and bought the DVD after, and it still sits on the shelf in the cellophane. I can't bring myself to deliberately put myself in that head space again.
Then I would go for Gummo. I really didn't like it on any level. I mean I too like bleak films, but the kind you can laugh at, then feel bad about laughing at after. But this was just plain
horrible. I don't know what the intention was of this film, but to me, the characters were completely unlikable. And for me to give a shit about what I'm watching, I first need to relate, or at least have some sort of understanding of where they're coming from or going. But that's just it, they're not going anywhere, and they never will. T'is highly disrturbing in my eyes, and perhaps that is indeed real life. But it's certainly not something I care to watch ever again. I simply couldn't find any beauty in it's bleakness, and I think there should always be a flip side. Or else it leaves me feeling empty towards the subject.
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