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What's your favourite emotionally devastating movie? (lemmy.world)
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The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven't been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.

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[–] kip@piefed.zip 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Happiness (1998) is extremely dark and very funny at the same time

The War Zone (1999) is relentlessly bleak and uncomfortable

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The breakfast scene in that movie (happiness). Just ..... Fuck.

[–] kip@piefed.zip 3 points 2 hours ago

it's full of those sort of sinking feelings but that's a grim one