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Tonight's Movies!
Tonight is the final Death and Dismemberment Thursday of the year! What started as the nucleus of an idea in the visual_cuisine chat not quite 5 months ago is now our regular Thursday night thing. I was curious what kind of highfalutin' concepts or themes might emerge as we riffed off each others choices of films but it became clear pretty quickly that we share a fondness for dark, dark comedy. And death and dismemberment.
That said, we're returning to our roots with a special Christmas re-screening of the first film Cud showed, In Bruges (2008), followed by one of my favorites: The Third Man (1949). What does honor even mean when everything is in rubble? What is a life worth? How many Dutch angles can you fit in a movie filmed in Vienna in 1948, while it was still under occupation?
In Bruges (2008)
I'm stealing Cud's description of this from her first D+D movie night, 5 months ago:
Irish hit man botches his first job. He and his mentor are sent to lay low in the small fairy-tale town of Bruges til it blows over. Shenanigans, existential angst, drugs, violence, and a whole lot of Colin Ferrel looking very sad ensue.
On a personal note I think this is the funniest serious movie I know of.
- Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/in-bruges/
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780536/
The Third Man (1949)
Description stolen from Letterboxd:
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry’s death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry’s grief-stricken lover, Anna.
CWs
In Bruges (2008)
Links
- IMDB parental guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780536/parentalguide/
- doesthedogdie.com: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/10064
- UnconsentingMedia: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/4892
List
Copy-pasted from https://hexbear.net/post/5783567
- Trauma to an eyeball
- Death of a child on screen
- Murders
- Several scenes of gore, quite graphic.
- main characters die bloodily on screen.
- Depression
- Suicidal ideation
- Suicide attempt
- Suicide depicted.
- Misogyny, threats of domestic violence
- Alcoholism
- Fatness as the butt of jokes
- reference to child molestation
- Sex pestery passed off as lads being lads — repeated attempts to flirt despite a clear "no"
- Sex depicted and referred to.
- Depictions of sex work
- Lots of drug use shown on screen
- Sexual assault mentioned, discussed, implied
- Disrespectful language for sex workers.
- Slurs for little people
- Racism
- Ambiguous ending — is it happy? Is it sad? Both? Neither? I have my opinions but it's unclear.
IMDB Parental Guide:
Sex + Nudity: Mild
- No sex or nudity, and some mild sexual talk.
- A sex worker says that she moved from Amsterdam to Bruges so she could "get more money for my pussy."
- Some brief, non-graphic discussion of sex
- A brief scene of man and woman kissing on a bed (no nudity or sex happens because they are interrupted).
- Mention of prostitution for comedic effect
- Two sex workers with two men in a room, one sitting on the lap of one of them, wearing revealing clothes and kissing.
- A man with a sex worker, she is wearing shorts while camera zooms on her legs. They kiss.
Violence + Gore: Severe
- Little to no blood until the last 30 minutes. Then there is extreme violence with blood, blood splatters, detailed gore / gory aftermath, suicide, and implied violence against a child.
- Ray punches a man in the face and then punches the mans girlfriend.
- A character head-butts a man and we see blood coming out of his nose. The character then shoots the man in the eyes with "blanks," leaving the man blinded.
- Harry starts to beat a man in the face. This is done off screen but the sounds and screams can be heard.
Profanity: Severe
- Lots of Irish slang and swears.
- 100 uses of "fuck", 20 uses of "shit", 4 uses of "removed" (7 of them in one scene), 2 uses of "cock", 2 uses of "shag" British slang for "to have sex", and 1 use of "wanker". Also there are a couple uses of "poof."
Alcohol, Drugs + Smoking: Severe
- Chloe mentions that she sells heroin and cocaine to the members of a movie cast. She tells us that she sold horse tranquilizer to one of them.
- Ray finds cocaine (5 grams) and other drugs (Acid and ecstasy).
- Ray says that he snorts about a gram of the cocaine.
- We see a group of men and women snorting cocaine and drinking alcohol.
- Ray mentions the acid and ecstasy.
- There a few scenes of casual drinking and smoking.
Frightening + Intense Scenes: Moderate
- It's a dark comedy
- Heavy themes of depression, mortality, heaven, hell, redemption, and coming to terms with your own guilt.
- This film is very violent. The second half of the film is far more intense than the first half. The bell tower scene at the end is frightening and final ten minutes are intense.
- Ken's death may be sad for some
- After accidentally shooting a short man in the head during a gunfight, the shooter mistakes it to be a child, and he subsequently shoots himself in the mouth. Disturbing and a bit sad, considering the context of the rest of the film.
- A child is shown shot in the head due to a failed hit. It is treated seriously and has a heavy effect on Ray.
- Ray is suicidal and extremely depressed throughout the movie, at one point nearly shooting himself at a playground.
The Third Man (1949)
Links
- IMDB parental guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/parentalguide/
- doesthedogdie.com: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12246
- UnconsentingMedia: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/733
List
- Artistic nudity (Hayes Code-compliant)
- Violence, none explicit
- Vehicular homicide is discussed, not shown
- Infanticide discussed, not shown
- Man murdered offscreen
- Smoking, drinking throughout
- Postwar ennui
IMDB Parental Guide:
Sex + Nudity: None
- An artful painting of a nude lady is seen in the background very briefly, maybe one second.
- There is one scene of brief partial nudity when a stripper wearing pasties dances in the background. At minute marker 58:50.
Violence + Gore: Mild
- People are shot and killed.
- People describe the death of a character from being hit by a car, but not in detail.
- A man is murdered offscreen -- the only thing shown is the body-bag being taken out of the building.
- Two people are shot, one being shown onscreen. No visible wound or blood.
Profanity: None
- One utterance of "God," and one of "Lord."
Alcohol, Drugs + Smoking: Mild
- References of a black market implied drug dealing but not out right mentioned and never shown.
- Various scenes of people smoking and drinking in social situations. In one instance, a man becomes intoxicated at a bar.
Frightening + Intense Scenes: Mild
- A man disturbingly speaks of people as though they are meaningless to him.
- This movie is very suspenseful and intense, especially the ending scene.
tankie.tube links:
- In Bruges (2008): https://tankie.tube/w/7gWwuavbM1tcHxojr1PnCN
- The Third Man (1949) https://tankie.tube/w/3GpD4NfE28Psotb7vkepfe
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