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69. Children of Men

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 10:54 PM

Mar 2015

Ignoring the plot point about infertile women, its dystopian view of future society looks quite believable from here.

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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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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