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What are some works that have absolutely destroyed you, emotionally?

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B_Spooky13 said:
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shit!!! I didn't even know anything about this!!!!

damn Willl....

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funny how much japanese media is in here. nobody knows quite how to emotionally gut people like they do.

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In a Glass Cage is about an ex-Nazi pedophile who was paralyzed following a botched suicide attempt. Trapped inside an iron lung, he hires a mysterious young man to care for his needs. Its a harrowing experience of psychological horror that explores the cycle of abuse and the corrupting nature of evil. As beautifully shot as it is nihilistic and perverse, it's a bleak ass movie that never flinches from the abyss it descends into. It ends with a disclaimer stating none of the children involved in the production were harmed. Thank god for small fucking favors.
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glad someone mentioned this. I think I just turned the tv off and sat in the quiet for a while afterwards
 
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Secret Sunshine - Lee Chang Dong
It's a drama about a woman and her son, returning to the small village her recently deceased husband grew up. To start anew and to be close to him, after his death. It's a sad premise [light spoiler - still better to go in blind]
but it get's incredibly more dark and sad when her son is abducted and killed. And she struggles and tries to cope with her overwhelming sadness. The picture i posted kills me, because in an early scene, you see the son pretending to sleep in that position, because his father (the deceased husband) used to do so after work.
It's a film full of despair, anger and a lot of sadness. The main actress is incredible and rightfully snatched several awards for her performance, both in korea and abroad.
 
Blue Valentine, that movie doesn't get the love it deserves.
 
Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai

Angel Beats

Kokoro Connect

I'm not sure why but i always get really invested in anime. I remember after watching these i just didnt want to watch anything else for a while. Angel Beats really got to me ><
 
Toy 3

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One Piece: Aces death

Grave of the Fireflies

(Will never watch this again. Far to much for me, masterpiece regardless)

and this destroyer of world's

Heavenly Forest
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I can't express the joy and connection i had to this. But also the complete an utter heartbreak after it all unfolds. Probably one of the few times were a story hit me so hard that it hurt, they didn't stop coming down and it stayed with me right after. I was not ready.
 
movies:
Dancer in the dark - I was legit disturbed after watching this, loved it
Irreversible - I took a date to this one, horrible fucking idea, this movie wrecked me for a month.
Glory - I cry every time I watch it

Books:
The odd sea

Games:
Valiant hearts made me cry, that last scene my god.... Masterpiece

Tv:
Mr robot - there are a few episodes that really moved me, along with the reveals. The social anxiety and father figure really hit close to home.

Flesh and Bone on starz really messed with me, I loved it but needed to take a two week break after one of the episodes. It was really heavy.
 
The most random scene to get a reaction out of me was the ratatouille scene with the food critic. Just seeing a cold man reflect on a childhood memory was so effective.
 
My top answers have already been said:

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Grave of the Fireflies
Jurassic Bark

Also some parts of Lost really got me, like NOT PENNY'S BOAT, The Constant, and the final minute or so of the finale.
 
Anything where a dog waits for its master who will never return. I just want to blow up the Earth because there is too much hurt in those moments.
 
efyu_lemonardo said:
Oh it affected me deeply for sure, only film in my adult life to give me recurring nightmares. Terrifyingly disturbing stuff, the more you think about it. The complete and utter loss of identity by the time the film ends left me legit shook. It was a very different feeling for me than being sad or depressed, but I may have misunderstood the OP in which case Synecdoche, New York applies big time.
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Fear, horror, terror; they're all emotions. Some poster put Funny Games down earlier, so I'm pretty sure this counts.

The real issue here is finding out which perverse marketing fuck out there put that "Smash hit Comedy of the Year" sticker on the cover of the goddamned DVD...

Son of a bitch must pay.
 
My dad died when I was 9, so the Lion King, which came out when I was 6. I was already a big fan, but when my dad died I saw the movie in a whole new way. Still my favorite movie.
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Watching Nami's Backstory/Arlong Park arc in One Piece certainly did it to me. Going through some... traumatic stuff as a kid that I felt like I was still struggling with even in my adult life. It destroyed me emotionally, but it really helped me for the most part.

Recently, I'd have to say Wolf Children.
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Came for this, exactly. It crushed me.

Recently, it was Rocinante and trafalgar law's story. Beautiful stuff but so sad.
 
Failan: Really shows the power of redemption, and you don't even see it coming...
Waltz with Bashir: That scene at the very end,
with found footage of a child's corpse among a pile of bodies...
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Getting through Making a Murderer was pretty rough. I love True Crime stories as well as documentaries/reports on potential false accusations/convictions, and MaM takes the cake for some of the most frustrating shit I've ever seen. I couldn't make it through certain parts without getting absolutely furious at how bad the justice system was screwing certain people (everything pertaining to Brendan was just infuriating).

As someone above mentioned, FMA has some pretty emotional moments that I remember pretty clearly. The plotline with Nina and Hughes Death stand out the most.

Also, this scene from Interstellar is my favorite, and probably the high point of the movie and Mathew Mcconaughey's career.
 
I was reminded that as a child, the last episode of the Macross portion of Robotech basically destroyed all us kids. We'd already been through a series of deaths on that show, in fact the reason my mom approved of us watching it was because it handled war better than GI Joe, but that last episode... It amazingly has a higher body count in the Robotech version than in the original Japanese! And we honestly thought (as we were supposed to) that EVERYONE on the bridge was dead and we were just sobbing and sobbing and even when the survivor showed up we were inconsolable. I really pity my mom having to deal with three hysterical kids that day.
 
As both an adoptee and a gay man, Philomena punched me right in the gut. I'm not one to cry over movies, but I bawled my eyes out.
 
B_Spooky13 said:
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psynergylover said:
shit!!! I didn't even know anything about this!!!!

damn Willl....

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This is a completely made up rumor. Classic internet. Will Smith's father Willard is and always has been in his life and supportive. Here's a quote from an interview he did with Reader's Digest after Pursuit of Happiness.

Smith: &#8220;Oh, yeah, he was very serious about things being a certain way. When my father got out of the Air Force, he started his own refrigeration business. I might have been 12 and my brother 9 when one day he decided he wanted a new front wall at his shop. He tore the old one down &#8212; it was probably 16 feet high and 40 feet long. And he told us that this was going to be our gig over the summer. We were standing there thinking, There will never, ever, be a wall here again.

We went brick by brick for the entire summer and into winter and then back into spring. One day there was a wall there again. I know my dad had been planning this for a long time. He said, &#8216;Now, don&#8217;t you all ever tell me there&#8217;s something you can&#8217;t do.&#8217; And he walked into the shop. The thing I connect to is: I do not have to build a perfect wall today.

I just have to lay a perfect brick. Just lay one brick, dude.&#8221;

Please stop propagating this rumor and in doing so the myth of the "absent black father" thank you.
 
Welcome to the NHK suicide island arc hit me pretty hard.

Dear Zachary pissed me off like no other.

Inside Out hit me hard too. Like, shit it wasn't even funny for a good 40 minutes. Just super depressing.
 
Nightcrawler.
Not really destroyed me but it annoys me to think that I'm kinda similar to that guy. Which make me a bad guy material.
The ending is pretty gut punching too.
 
Dennis said:
You understand of course that no one knows what you are talking about when you don't post a title.
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For anyone who's wondering what the fuck that is, it's Y the Last Man.

Only comic to make me cry and not only cry but actually sob. Shit hit me right in the gut.
 
Prisoners, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Literally after it ended I let out a deep exhale and said to myself, "Wow that was a great movie, I don't think I'll ever watch it again."
 
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