Most Soul Crushing Film?

Honorable Mention to The Bridge (2006)

The Lives Of Others wasn't crushing. It had closure and optimism.

The Bridge was a documentary which made it even more soul crushing than fiction. OP, I wish there was an option for multiple answers - maybe the Top Three most soul crushing?

R3 It's hard with only ten options.

From this list, I choose Requiem. But the movie I’d choose over anything else is Snowtown. I’m not sure how I managed to finish it, but you couldn’t pay me to watch that movie again.

The House of Mirth (2000)

Noel with Robin Williams and Susan Sarandon makes The Deer Hunter look like a comedy.

^Never heard of it. Now I have to find it.

R1 - I've posted this before, but I came across this one night years ago on some smaller cable channel. I missed the first 10-15 minutes of the beginning - and I thought I was watching actors re-create some of these suicide jumpers.

When I realized I was watching the actual people before and during their suicide jumps - I got sick to my stomach. You see them pacing around and contemplating - the rest of the world oblivious to what's going to happen.

I know the filmmaker did not intend to capture this - he originally wanted to capture the colors and environment changes of the bridge - but he unwittingly captured all the suicides and turned it into a film.

Threads

Sophie's Choice.

- Not Glenn

Testament

Sophie’s Choice should have been on the list, it rips your heart out and stomps on it.

From this list, Requiem. For me the most soul crushing was a double bill I saw at a repertory house in the mid-70s: Midnight Cowboy was on first, then The Boys in the Band. A very bleak prognosis for a 13 year old kid discovering his sexuality.

R13, the first time I watched Sophie's Choice, I was literally stunned and sat staring at the TV for a few minutes. The whole movie is as you describe. I was not expecting the ending, but, in hindsight, and much older and a little wiser, I know realize that it was the only endling possible.

“Midsomnar”

Oh, dear.

Dancer in the Dark

The House Of Mirthless

The one with Laura Linney and the talking gorilla.

R19 Disney's Mighty Joe Young

Crushing? The House of Girth & Mirth.

CONGO!

Laura Linney, a gorilla called Amy and Tim Curry. FROM THE CREATOR OF JURASSIC PARK

E.T. fucked me up when I was a kid.

Spielberg's A.I. is not uplifting whatsoever. It's dark and really sad.

I saw Requiem Of a Dream at the cinema. It was excellent, but so incredibly dark and depressing, I have no desire to see it again.

Bambi! I was 3 and cried for days.

R25 - I left the cinema traumatized and had to find a bar to get a drink at 2 in the afternoon.

Chinatown.

The villain wins and apparently will get to repeat his heinous crimes once again.

Requiem is rough but it’s not even playing in the same league as Come and See. I’m going to give myself nightmares just thinking about it.

Speak No Evil, the original one. Haven't seen the remake.

Absolutely repulsed by the violence and the depravity. I couldn't believe that Danish couple just allowed themselves to be murdered like that. I had to watch something really upbeat afterwards just to rinse that filth out of my brain.

MAME

Requiem FOR a Dream.

Fuck's sake.

The Mist