[Film] What's the most thought provoking/controversial film you've watched?

[TomandJerry]

Just finished watching A Clockwork Orange and I'm blown away - not many films made like that

 

[FamilyGuy]

I watched "Darkest Hour" again last night - a wonderful film (if not always entirely accurate), but for me it illustrates the pressures and dynamics of the situation and of the players.

 

[Chicken Run]

Just finished watching A Clockwork Orange and I'm blown away - not many films made like that

Crimson Tide

 

[telboyWotR]

Bad Boy Bubby

 

[TomandJerry]

I watched "Darkest Hour" again last night - a wonderful film (if not always entirely accurate), but for me it illustrates the pressures and dynamics of the situation and of the players.

A gem of a film - slow burning but absolutely gripping

 

[Is it PotG?]

Funny Games 1997.

 

[5Ways Gull]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Maybe not that controversial, but definitely thought provoking for a me at 17 years old.

 

[The Clamp]

So many.

Thought provoking?.. Anything from A Matter Of Life and Death to Fight Club, The Browning Version, the list goes on.

Thought provoking AND controversial? Hmm,

La Haine

Lolita

Betty Blue

Mississippi Burning

Leon

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

To name a few

The 70’s and the 90’s were good decades for cutting edge but very watchable controversial films.

 

[The Clamp]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Maybe not that controversial, but definitely thought provoking for a me at 17 years old.

The novel was certainly controversial. Depicting mental health patients as humans with feelings, aspirations, and social awareness was not really seen up until then.

I heard a good story about the making of that film.

Milos Forman the director, had put all the cast on a plane and flown them over to location early.

The plane landed and Forman was waiting on the runway.

Jack Nicholson had given them all acid on the journey.

The hatch opened and this mob of gurning loons; Nicholson, The Chief, Danny Devito, Christopher Lloyd all came tumbling out, down the steps, wondering through the airport like, well like mental patients.

Forman said he just thought to himself “what have I done”?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Schindlers List

 

[DJ NOBO]

Saving Private Ryan.

The indifference shown to taking a man’s life.

 

[BN9 BHA]

101 Dalmatians

 

[Taybha]

Lolita

 

[WASH]

Threads

 

[nevergoagain]

Man Bites Dog - One of the very few films that I found disturbing.

 

[GT49er]

Fritz the Cat.

 

[Weststander]

Cuckoo’s Nest is a great choice. Vividly highlighting the cruelty within mental institutions of the time, also showing how just one faux pas (Randle feigning mental ill health) instigated a likely life drugged to the hilt within such a place.

My choice …. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button … although a fantasy, a poignant tale of love and growing older, highlighted through the reverse in BB’s case.

 

[dazzer6666]

Awaits a contribution from @El Presidente

 

[cheshunt seagull]

I can remember seeing Soldier Blue when I was about 15 as being the moment I started to question so much that I was being taught in school. I've never been able to watch it since then.
Not sure if it counts as a film but The Naked Civil Servant had quite an impact as well.

 

[pocketseagull]

Funny Games 1997.

Michael Haneke is very good. The Seventh Continent is probably the most shocking film I've seen.

Not controversial but A Real Pain is very thought provoking and extremely well written and acted.