Thursday 11 January 2018

Thursday Movie Picks: Once Was Enough



There are actually quite a few films that fit this description.  Some are because these films were utter trash, other because they were just so depressing and there are a few there I can appreciate for being brilliant but I will never see them again.
Silence
One from last year, Martin Scorsese's film, meant to be a big hit with awards instead it just became the talk of a few conversations. Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan after they hear their mentor has renounced his faith after being tortured. Its a harrowing story and thats putting lightly. The torture the Japanese converts experience in the name of faith is appalling, again, understating it. Not to mention the emtional trauma as well as physical that everyone goes through. It is spectacularly shot, the atmosphere is captured and you feel as if you are there (not always a good thing) but ultimately it isn't a film I can watch again as it does anger me as well as disturb me.

The Eyes of My Mother
 Speaking of disturbing... this film. I can't even bring myself to talk about this film again. I did write about it last year, which you can read HERE if you are intrigued. My gad I can't think of this film again.

Happiness
This is always one on the list of films I never want to see again. I bought the DVD after reading so much about Todd Solondz thinking this film was going to be about a family and their problems. What I got was that but its also the film with Philip Seymour Hoffman playing a creep, Dylan Baker playing a horrifying pheodohile where you don't see what he does but you find out what happens to the kids and it is beyond disturbing, not to mention that conversation he has with this son. Then there are the three sisters are each messed up or despressed in their own way...... I really don't like this film. Apologies for not being eloquent enough.


Don't forget to check out where it all started over at
Wandering Through the Shelves