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

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pocketseagull said:
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.
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Yup, was going to say Hidden. Of more recent vintage, A Zone of Interest is worth a shout. Apocalypse Now impacted me in my teens.
 


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pocketseagull said:
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.
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Yeah, I liked A Real Pain. Was very well done.
 




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Clockwork orange is a great shout as is one flew over.....

I would also add the Magdalen sisters to this. It was the first time the Catholic laundry scandal in Ireland had made mainstream
 


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Ex Machina was very thought provoking. And controversial in the sense he was making AI for his own sexual pleasure and to serve his God complex.

And it’s a very good film. Alex Garland at his best.
 
















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The Clamp said:
Ex Machina was very thought provoking. And controversial in the sense he was making AI for his own sexual pleasure and to serve his God complex.

And it’s a very good film. Alex Garland at his best.
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I thought Ex Machina was superb.

I'm terms of films that really stuck with me? I would say Parasite and a Real Pain. Both powerful in different ways
 


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Pogue Mahone said:
The Vanishing - or Spoorloos as it was called in the Netherlands where it was released in 1988.

I still have flashbacks to it, and it caused me many sleepless nights when I saw it over 30 years ago.

Seek it out.
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Disturbing film indeed, and the US remake was disturbing I'm a totally different way. It was rubbish.
 




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JBizzle said:
I thought Ex Machina was superb.

I'm terms of films that really stuck with me? I would say Parasite and a Real Pain. Both powerful in different ways
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Yes. I largely agree.

I must revisit Parasite as I didn’t get what everyone else seems to about it. Needs a rewatch.
 




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And although it’s very high profile ‘Everything everywhere all at once‘ certainly brings the multiverse concept into focus.
 


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The Antikythera Mechanism said:
The Wicker Man (original)
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Nice.

I read the book recently and it explains a lot more that watching the film, first time anyway, does.


SPOILERS







Why they try to turn him away from the island. Why Britt Eckland tries to get him to sleep with her etc

All attempts to try and save him from sacrifice.


Well, I didn’t get that from the film. I’m sure others would have.
 








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