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58. Toss up. "The Boy in Striped Pajamas" and "Hurt Locker"

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Fri Feb 17, 2012, 05:54 PM

Feb 2012

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/
Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/
Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
(Came out on my son's third deployment)

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What is the most depressing film you have ever seen? (Fiction only) [View all] banned from Kos Feb 2012 OP

"Melancholia" jimlup Feb 2012 #1

I agree knowbody0 Feb 2012 #4

Oh, its Lars von Trier - missed it banned from Kos Feb 2012 #7

I just watched this a few weeks ago and I agree. I have another too: Avalux Feb 2012 #53

Oh, that was a HAUNTINGLY beautiful movie. I can never forget the pool scenes. PassingFair Feb 2012 #72

An old movie, "The Pawnbroker." The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2012 #2

Great movie. I should see that again. mucifer Feb 2012 #32

The Road Major Nikon Feb 2012 #3

I didn't see that movie because I read the book and had the same reaction n/t dogknob Feb 2012 #21

Testament cliffordu Feb 2012 #5

when she is going for the last bit of peanut butter and the way the people were all slowly WCGreen Feb 2012 #42

Her putting the batteries into cliffordu Feb 2012 #60

This message was self-deleted by its author Saving Hawaii Feb 2012 #6

'Umberto D' and 'Requiem for a Dream' CrawlingChaos Feb 2012 #8

RfaD is the most terrifying and depressing movie I have ever seen. I can never watch it again. LonePirate Feb 2012 #10

Requiem for a Dream is very painful to watch. Saving Hawaii Feb 2012 #12

1984. Oops, sorry. You wanted fiction. nt valerief Feb 2012 #9

Grave of the Fireflies sakabatou Feb 2012 #11

Biggest tear-jerker EVER. nt PassingFair Feb 2012 #28

"The Seventh Continent" PassingFair Feb 2012 #29

Irreversable. Chan790 Feb 2012 #13

Saw that. It was brutal. banned from Kos Feb 2012 #15

Even Monica Bellucci naked couldn't make-up for that fight scene siligut Feb 2012 #51

District 9 Odin2005 Feb 2012 #14

No way. Depressing but not that depressing. Saving Hawaii Feb 2012 #19

Black South Africans treating the aliens as they had been treated by whites... Odin2005 Feb 2012 #37

Breaking the Waves nolabear Feb 2012 #16

That was my immediate first thought as well petronius Feb 2012 #20

'The Forest for the Trees' Populist_Prole Feb 2012 #17

"Dancer in the Dark" and "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas." Behind the Aegis Feb 2012 #18

I was going to say Boy in the Striped Pajamas as well. RiffRandell Feb 2012 #41

Looks like Dancer in the Dark might be the champ... dogknob Feb 2012 #22

Watership Down was definitely depressing Art_from_Ark Feb 2012 #24

Dancer in the Dark wins, hands down. Frank Cannon Feb 2012 #27

Idiocracy. Aristus Feb 2012 #23

I know what you mean. Doc Holliday Feb 2012 #47

There you go with that Fa&&ot talk again! dogknob Feb 2012 #52

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Bad_Ronald Feb 2012 #25

Dude! MountainMama Feb 2012 #83

Let The Right One In AsahinaKimi Feb 2012 #26

I just watched that the other week RZM Feb 2012 #66

Leaving Las Vegas HappyMe Feb 2012 #30

Agreed. Doc Holliday Feb 2012 #38

Swing Vote was great! dogknob Feb 2012 #48

I was looking to see if anyone listed Leaving Las Vegas SCantiGOP Feb 2012 #55

The Mist. I'm scarred for life after seeing that. n/t LeftinOH Feb 2012 #31

Brazil. mucifer Feb 2012 #33

"Glory" and "Sid and Nancy" -- Hell Hath No Fury Feb 2012 #34

Oh man. HappyMe Feb 2012 #36

There was something really gutwrenching about that film. Hell Hath No Fury Feb 2012 #46

'Synecdoche, New York'... skypilot Feb 2012 #35

Too many to list, and I've made a decision . . . HughBeaumont Feb 2012 #39

Revolutionary Road geardaddy Feb 2012 #40

Big time! RiffRandell Feb 2012 #43

that movie came to my mind as well as dana_b Feb 2012 #44

Sophie's Choice elleng Feb 2012 #45

O da troot! I don evaknow wat is da troot! dogknob Feb 2012 #49

The only movie I've ever been to where beac Feb 2012 #85

Requiem for a Dream, hands down! hedgehog Feb 2012 #50

Cannot unsee. Iggo Feb 2012 #75

On the Beach--both versions classof56 Feb 2012 #54

Snakepit fadedrose Feb 2012 #56

Requiem for a Dream, Brokeback Mountain and Brazil all tie Taverner Feb 2012 #57

Toss up. "The Boy in Striped Pajamas" and "Hurt Locker" w8liftinglady Feb 2012 #58

Blue Velvet. nt bathroommonkey76 Feb 2012 #59

Can I have some popcorn now? GoneOffShore Feb 2012 #61

It's a tie between "The Name of the Rose" and "Blue Velvet". Moondog Feb 2012 #62

Gallipoli WilliamPitt Feb 2012 #63

The Last King of Scotland. LeftyMom Feb 2012 #64

You made me watch Children of Men! XemaSab Feb 2012 #76

Agree with many of these. I have to add Atonement to the list. alphafemale Feb 2012 #65

I was bawling by the end! GermanDem Feb 2012 #78

Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2012 #67

Antonioni's "The Passenger" dogknob Feb 2012 #68

"Longtime Companion" and "Grave of the Fireflies" ScreamingMeemie Feb 2012 #69

Mystic River mikeargo Feb 2012 #70

The Killing Fields, and The Deer Hunter. Brickbat Feb 2012 #71

Sweeney Todd Lady Freedom Returns Feb 2012 #73

Unfaithful. dawg Feb 2012 #74

Threads charlie and algernon Feb 2012 #77

Monster's Ball Burma Jones Feb 2012 #79

"La Strada" and Werner Herzog's hifiguy Feb 2012 #80

The English Patient. Vidar Feb 2012 #81

Ulee's Gold GoCubsGo Feb 2012 #82

Schindler's List MountainMama Feb 2012 #84

I felt the same way about "The Pianist". GermanDem Feb 2012 #88

American Beauty BrendaBrick Feb 2012 #86

They Shoot Horses Don't They WiffenPoof Feb 2012 #87