So Idk if anybody's watched this yet, but I did, and, uh, "trigger warnings" doesn't really cover it. I started watching it with some friends, but one, who is an abuse survivor, triggered really bad about 20 minutes in. We turned it off, and I finished it later by myself.
Y'all, I watch a lot of fucked up movies, and I've got a pretty strong stomach, but this.... There was one part (Renner's one scene, weirdly) where I had to pick up my computer and read something happy on the internet because I just could not give my full attention to what was happening on-screen. I stayed pretty disconnected for the rest of it.
Cinematically, it's a beautiful film, but it's almost impossible to watch. In the end, there is no grace or triumph or redemption, just a lot of really terrible things happening to a little kid.
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Y'all, I watch a lot of fucked up movies, and I've got a pretty strong stomach, but this.... There was one part (Renner's one scene, weirdly) where I had to pick up my computer and read something happy on the internet because I just could not give my full attention to what was happening on-screen. I stayed pretty disconnected for the rest of it.
Cinematically, it's a beautiful film, but it's almost impossible to watch. In the end, there is no grace or triumph or redemption, just a lot of really terrible things happening to a little kid.
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Whatever you do, DO NOT WATCH THESE MOVIES BACK-TO-BACK. NO SERIOUSLY.
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And yeah, the Hurt Locker, good film, not a good film to watch in combo with this one. At all.
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