ItWasntMe wrote:Grave of the Fireflies certainly ranks up there..

Heartbreaking.

The boy lives through it all, the death of his parents, the death of his sister, only to die of starvation at war’s end.

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:04 pm The boy lives through it all, the death of his parents, the death of his sister, only to die of starvation at war’s end.

Thanks, Captain Spoiler !

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:04 pm

ItWasntMe wrote:Grave of the Fireflies certainly ranks up there..

Heartbreaking.

The boy lives through it all, the death of his parents, the death of his sister, only to die of starvation at war’s end.

I read somewhere that the intention of the book's author, was for Seita to symbolize the people of Japan during WWII, how as things got worse, they just kept going and going trying to by willpower somehow make things work, in the end making the whole situation much worse

Surprised it's not been mentioned yet but Scarface...maybe just too overdone.

Anyway, some others that have stayed with me:
The kerb stomping in American History X

Psycho. Saw it young. Still gets me.

Others mentioned here, Grave of the Fireflies and of course Roy Batty.

But the one that got me most was towards the end of a film I got from a friend, unknowingly. Okay, the title is a giveaway but there's a guy towards the end that made my skin crawl. Executions is the movie. Never want to see it again.

The heart plug.
That was mean and gratuitous, and skipped in the new Dune.
Wicked David Lynch ^^

Ghostwriter wrote:

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:04 pm The boy lives through it all, the death of his parents, the death of his sister, only to die of starvation at war’s end.

Thanks, Captain Spoiler !

Admit it, you were never planning on watching it anyways.

Only die hard anime fans know of this Takahata gem.

My synopsis doesn’t do justice.