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15. what really haunts me

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 03:45 PM

Mar 2015

is I tried watching some documentaries on Netflix about the Holocaust, including interviews with some of those responsible, but it is just overwhelming....I can't seem to get past the part not being able to understand why, how it could be done, how it could go on for so long.........and I now I feel the same way when I see almost daily news events of atrocity and horror

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Name a movie that haunted you after seeing it. [View all] Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2015 OP

Se7en! Behind the Aegis Mar 2015 #1

Yeah, I did a little soul searching after Se7en. NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #75

"The Search" with Montgomery Clift. "Breaker Morant." WinkyDink Mar 2015 #2

Flatliners really made me think for quite awhile about bullying. gvstn Mar 2015 #3

Platoon pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #4

The Killing Fields The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2015 #5

"Mulholland Drive" and "The Tree of Life" hifiguy Mar 2015 #6

Faces of Death LynneSin Mar 2015 #7

I still remember the scream of the woman as she jumped off a building. Kaleva Mar 2015 #22

The Seventh Continent. PassingFair Mar 2015 #8

Jesus Camp Fix The Stupid Mar 2015 #9

Sid & Nancy HappyMe Mar 2015 #10

Yes, to "Sid and Nancy" -- Hell Hath No Fury Mar 2015 #119

United 93; fact-based and grim. Some liberties LeftinOH Mar 2015 #11

The Diary of Anne Frank, Schindler's List Skittles Mar 2015 #12

The Auschwitz scene from Shindler's List definitely haunted me. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2015 #13

what really haunts me Skittles Mar 2015 #15

I actually fear losing my mind if I think about it for too long. nt redwitch Mar 2015 #23

yes Skittles Mar 2015 #24

The little girl yelling, "Goodbye, Jews!" made me gasp shenmue Mar 2015 #26

me too Danmel Mar 2015 #44

The scene when Goeth has the engineer executed really stunned me Orrex Mar 2015 #106

Schindler seeing that little girl's red dress in the stack of gassed Jews clothing... CTyankee Mar 2015 #58

Same here with Schindler's awoke_in_2003 Mar 2015 #64

Chinatown First Speaker Mar 2015 #14

+1. Timeless. n/t Smarmie Doofus Mar 2015 #31

+2. Then, now, and always. (nt) Paladin Mar 2015 #105

MEMORIES OF MURDER. zappaman Mar 2015 #16

Sophie's Choice cwydro Mar 2015 #17

As I've posted here on DU before, "The Big Chill" hunter Mar 2015 #18

Interesting. I never heard of anyone else who reacted that way to the "Chill". Smarmie Doofus Mar 2015 #29

"Days of Wine and Roses" blue neen Mar 2015 #19

Agreed Sherman A1 Mar 2015 #102

The House of Sand and Fog. The book also. kairos12 Mar 2015 #20

The Bridges of Madison County Kaleva Mar 2015 #21

I love that film so much. I play it on Youtube all the time. That slow dance with CTyankee Jul 2017 #124

That movie was way too slow paced for me. Kaleva Jul 2017 #125

Gallipoli shenmue Mar 2015 #25

Oh, yeah. Jacob's Ladder. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2015 #37

When a Stranger Calls Lil Missy Mar 2015 #27

I'm with you on The Mist and Fargo. Enthusiast Mar 2015 #28

Winter Bone's KG Mar 2015 #30

Jennifer Lawrence at her best. Great movie. kairos12 Mar 2015 #95

The Exorcist. Gack. Also "On the Beach." Double gack. catbyte Mar 2015 #32

I remember how scary the Exorcist was... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2015 #61

I only watched it once--I think it was Linda Blair's makeup. The Shining creeps me out too. catbyte Mar 2015 #71

ON THE BEACH--wow...! Been years since I've seen that 'un! MADem Mar 2015 #76

I first saw it in a college film class in 1974, when the Cold War was still limping along. catbyte Mar 2015 #85

I saw it maybe a year or two after it came out, in an outdoor movie theater... MADem Mar 2015 #86

Great cast did a great job. Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Tony Perkins. It was just so utterly hopeless catbyte Mar 2015 #87

Well, the first film was something light and fun, no doubt--and in color! At least they went for MADem Mar 2015 #89

Ohhhhh, "Devil at Four O'Clock"--Frank Sinatra & Spencer Tracy. A proto-disaster movie. catbyte Mar 2015 #90

"There's got to be a morning ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhft-TERRRRRRRR!!!!" MADem Mar 2015 #91

NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO! catbyte Mar 2015 #92

Event Horizon Paulie Mar 2015 #33

Closet Land Prisoner_Number_Six Mar 2015 #34

Lawrence of Arabia Mac1949 Mar 2015 #35

Peter O'Toole was riviting in that film. CTyankee Jul 2017 #123

Schindler's List Wow. BlueJazz Mar 2015 #36

Stigmata a la izquierda Mar 2015 #38

Grave of The Fireflies. Xipe Totec Mar 2015 #39

Pan's Labrynth is such a beautiful & sad movie. Inkfreak Mar 2015 #80

2 - An old movie called Asylum that I saw as a kid at the walk-in, and Night of the Living Dead. cherokeeprogressive Mar 2015 #40

Henry V IrishEyes Mar 2015 #41

Brazil DamnYankeeInHouston Mar 2015 #42

Citizens forced to obtain financing for their torture session or risk losing their credit rating IDemo Mar 2015 #70

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. Still scares me to think about it NightWatcher Mar 2015 #43

Deliverance, murielm99 Mar 2015 #45

Billy The Kid Versus Dracula was so mindbendingly bad that I thought it must have been a bad dream aint_no_life_nowhere Mar 2015 #46

Brokeback Mountain vanlassie Mar 2015 #47

same here. nt awoke_in_2003 Mar 2015 #62

Se7en. nt geek tragedy Mar 2015 #48

Suddenly, Last Summer gratuitous Mar 2015 #49

That is a masterful sequence Tom Ripley Mar 2015 #52

Aliens 2. underahedgerow Mar 2015 #50

Stroszek, Woyzeck, and Cobra Verde Tom Ripley Mar 2015 #51

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? For those of you who haven't seen it, raccoon Mar 2015 #53

On The Beach mainer Mar 2015 #54

Snowpiercer (could not get past the scene with the arm) that scene still haunts me. Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2015 #55

Hell of a movie. I've watched it 3x, already. Inkfreak Mar 2015 #81

I bet it is but, I could Not get past that scene. I wanted to throw up. Maybe, if I were to watch it Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2015 #93

Requiem for a Dream. Blue_In_AK Mar 2015 #56

YES! AwakeAtLast Mar 2015 #107

Ten Commandments madamesilverspurs Mar 2015 #57

The Flat. Smarmie Doofus Mar 2015 #59

the Secret of Roan Inish frogmarch Mar 2015 #60

love that movie KT2000 Mar 2015 #99

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This message was self-deleted by its author NRaleighLiberal Mar 2015 #65

Twin Peak Prequel "Fire Walk With Me" and "Inland Empire". Lynch at his most unsettling NRaleighLiberal Mar 2015 #66

Darby O'Gill and the Little People Adsos Letter Mar 2015 #67

perhaps the only movie where Sean Connery SINGS. kath Mar 2015 #94

The Machinist was pretty bad jmowreader Mar 2015 #68

Children of Men IDemo Mar 2015 #69

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2015 #72

Instinct with Anothony Hopkins AtomicKitten Mar 2015 #73

Apocalypse Now. I don't even like to talk about it. NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #74

The Deerhunter scarred me. There are others that have already been posted so I nirvana555 Mar 2015 #77

I haven't seen that one - I intentionally avoided it. NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #78

There's one scene in the Deer Hunter that haunted me when I saw it. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2015 #83

Garfield. Katashi_itto Mar 2015 #79

Session 9 PoliticAverse Mar 2015 #82

My favorite!! CrawlingChaos Mar 2015 #114

Sybil. The torture scenes, in the kitchen and at the piano. Cannot think of them or I can't sleep. auntAgonist Mar 2015 #84

In Cold Blood. Psycho. Black Like Me. eom Hoyt Mar 2015 #88

Billy Jack seveneyes Mar 2015 #96

I saw Threads when I was a kid, and that haunted me. It's a nuclear war flick. ZombieHorde Mar 2015 #97

films list turner52 Mar 2015 #98

Dead Ringers KT2000 Mar 2015 #100

The Master - manipulation & mind control of early scientologists. lovemydog Mar 2015 #101

I recently saw "The Pianist" -- betsuni Mar 2015 #103

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas AwakeAtLast Mar 2015 #108

Oh dear, just reading the film's synopsis made me cry. betsuni Mar 2015 #113

Eraserhead, Leolo, and Taxidermia My Good Babushka Mar 2015 #104

The Wrestler and The Place Beyond The Pines ButterflyBlood Mar 2015 #109

The Ring. bullsnarfle Mar 2015 #110

Let The Fire Burn damnedifIknow Mar 2015 #111

what comes to mind right now... bookworm65t Mar 2015 #112

I know some people thought it was cheesy, but "I Am Legend" XemaSab Mar 2015 #115

That one stayed with me too stopwastingmymoney Jul 2017 #132

District 9 had some intense moments AwakeAtLast Mar 2015 #116

Fahrenheit 9/11 NewJeffCT Mar 2015 #117

also, The Killing Fields NewJeffCT Mar 2015 #118

Reefer Madness Major Nikon Mar 2015 #120

The Deer Hunter. Saw it for first time last year. Haunted me for days. KittyWampus Mar 2015 #121

The beginning of "The Naked Prey" with Cornel Wilde GreatCaesarsGhost Mar 2015 #122

Games California_Republic Jul 2017 #126

The Pawnbroker Sneederbunk Jul 2017 #127

Looking for Mr. Goodbar - one of the most horrifying movie endings ever virtualobserver Jul 2017 #128

"The Last House on the Left" - 1972 version. I haven't seen the remake. Glorfindel Jul 2017 #129

On The Beach Chipper Chat Jul 2017 #130

Also 'Imitation of Life' Chipper Chat Jul 2017 #131

No Country for Old Men. Nay Jul 2017 #133