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I'm kind of surprised Requiem for a Dream didn't make more of a splash in this thread, as it is a good mind-fuck movie. Or is it too mainstream?
When I was a little kid, I walked in on my sister watching the very end of The Good Son , right Spoiler: when the mom drops Macaulay Culkin off the cliff . I was like 8 and it messed with my head. Haven't watched it since.
How about the Larry Clark movies? Kids, Bully, and most recently, Ken Park. They're all fucked up in their own way. I just saw Ken Park a couple months ago after my friend had to buy an illegal copy off eBay because you can't get it in the States. I wouldn't say I was slack-jawed the whole way through, but by the end I definitely stared at the credits for a several minutes and just said "What the fuck," several times, and then asked my friend "What the fuck?" and he said "That's fucked up." Sorry to cuss so much but that was pretty much verbatim.
On a small tangent, I was watching TV the other night (in London) and they showed Kids on one of the local broadcast channels, uncensored and all, followed by Bully in the same fashion. No way ever would either one of those make TV back home (the States), no way no how. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
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