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You need to watch from oldest to most recent video, keeping the subtitles on
Movies:
• Any Pedro Almodovar movie. I’d say they’re shocking in the way they creep in and suck you into the absurdity of the universe Pedro throws you in. I like Volver (2006), Talk To Her (2002), What Have I done To Deserve This? (1984). I’ve heard The Skin I Live In is disturbing but I haven’t watched.
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017).
• The Suicide Club (2001).
• Crimes of the Future (2022).
• Titane (2021).
Books:
• Flowers in the Attic by V.C Andrews.
• Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs: A memoir. A mother gives away his kid to his psychiatrist and lives in his house for a while. It’s a crazy story. Everything really happens to him.
• The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela. This one is one of the most violent books I’ve read.
• This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill. It’s about the Me Too era. It‘s sparked lots of discussion and is very short.
• Currently reading Fanny Hill. I would say is shocking now because the protagonist is 15 but is considered to be the first erotic British novel, written in the 1700s. Aside from that, it’s pretty accessible and easy to read, which was unexpected because my native language is not English.
• Paintings by Bosch, Caravaggio and Remedios Varo.
Easy shocks:
• 120 Days of Sodom. I don’t know about the movie, but the book I haven’t finished reading. I know I’ll pick it up again someday but it’s already incorporated pretty much every crime in existence.
• The Human Centipede (2009).
• A Clockwork Orange (1971).

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@worldonfire

went to look up 120 days of sodom on wikipedia and it’s already in my wild shit reading list, you are incredibly brave for choosing to read it. thanks for these recs i’m on the train and a man sat next to me so im going to start that daisy youtube series rn

18h ago

@mariamaria

@WORLDONFIRE let me know what you think 🙂‍↕️

17h ago

@isbiltur

"The Skin I Live In" presents quite disturbing idea but once it's revealed the movie doesn't have that much to offer and gets pretty predictable. It's still a good watch though

2d ago

@natilla

the 120 days of sodom book is actually so disturbing

2d ago

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@cilantro

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I'm not sure if any of these are particularly what you're looking for bc I haven't extensively studied those movements, but you might be interested in 'The Zone of Interest', or the documentary film 'Daughters', theyre both pretty slow and not super plot centric as much as designed to be atmospheric. I though 'A Real Pain' was pretty good I watched that recently. Or if you're looking for absurdism/unexpected plots I'd suggest 'Rotting in the Sun', 'Sorry to Bother You' were both great films that shocked me. Or 'Hundreds of Beavers' which I haven't seen but I've heard good things about the absurdist qualities.

@mad1

Apr 15, 2025

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——— Typed "romance" into Max, and it recommended The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001), so... I watched it.
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