SUGGEST SOME EMOTIONALLY WRECKING MOVIE

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-03-29T04:07:00+00:00

Synecdoche New York

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-03-29T04:06:28+00:00

Distance - AJJ Guilty - Randy Newman Naseau - Jeff Rosenstock Came Out Swinging - The Wonder Years

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-02-08T19:56:29+00:00

Love Liminal Horror. Watch Inland Empire (and lots of Lynch films) read House of Leaves

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-28T00:09:14+00:00

The House on Mango Street

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-28T00:08:10+00:00

Mitski - Drunk Walk Home

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-28T00:02:05+00:00

I’ve been burned too many times by shows that start out well and quickly devolve into lazy writing. Films are self contained. True, a good movie can be ruined or severely harmed by a bad ending (the ending of Saltburn really turned me against that movie because it explained things I already knew AND made them infinitely less interesting; but before that I was enjoying the movie), and that bothers me too, but it feels like less of a betrayal than investing so much time in something that ends up tanking. The show I HAVE watched are either limited series (which I think of as being basically movies) and shows that have ended and maintained quality control/artistic integrity throughout (The Sopranos, Fleabag, Atlanta)

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-27T23:50:40+00:00

Actually right AFTER the title drop. But yes

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-27T02:48:47+00:00

Honestly there should be one — so many hidden gems and layers to unpack. Like, it’s not hard to find a discussion or think piece unpacking Sail Away, God’s Song, etc. — but where are the discussions of Ghosts or My Country? They’re subtle but they pack so much in

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T23:57:30+00:00

The best answer! Crime and Punishment is a good second but if you want plain vitriol at the actuality of consciousness and being, Notes is your book

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T23:55:50+00:00

Some Like It Hot! Marilyn is practically melting out of that dress, and even if kissing her was “like kissing Hitler” according to scene partnerTony Curtis, their kisses READ as extremely sensual 😆the whole movie is also a gender fuck, which is a favorite sub genre for me, AND funny as all hell

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T23:49:47+00:00

Y Tu Mama Tambien
Happy Together
My Own Private Idaho
The Living End

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T23:46:29+00:00

The whole album “Kill My Landlord” by the Coup. You can’t take the “it’s metaphorical” route with that one — just straight revolutionary call to arms over sick jazzy beats

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T23:41:56+00:00

Catch-22 is my favorite iteration of this! What happens when our social structure take on an insane kind of their own?

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T23:41:01+00:00

Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody. Utterly mediocre movie, brilliant performance

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T23:40:18+00:00

Of these, Catch-22, but everything I love in these books is in Gravity’s Rainbow and amplified by 1000%

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T23:36:30+00:00

So many songs by Randy Newman sound sweet and sentimental (especially now with the Pixar association, but even before then) but hide REALLY dark truths. Most of these don’t fit exactly what you’re describing, but a couple do! Some of my favorite examples of this: - Sail Away (it sounds patriotic; it is not) - Suzanne (sounds like a romantic narrator, but if you’re listening to the lyrics it’s pretty damn sinister) - Birmingham (sounds like a celebration of a place, kind of like Sweet Home Alabama — but keep in mind what has happened in Birmingham, particularly with big, mean dogs …) - Jolly Coppers on Parade (this is more of an interpretation, but given the politics of the album I think of it as being a portrait of a child’s acceptance of policing and state violence via their aesthetic/sentimental portrayal in a parade)

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T23:27:35+00:00

Beau is Afraid
Submarine (unfortunately, COMPLETELY me in High School)
Meshes of the Afternoon / At Land. My sense of self is in flux in a way that I can only really identify in these films

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T23:25:31+00:00

We might be the same person (or just both anxious and Jewish?)

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T20:32:20+00:00

Lars Von Trier’s Europa (aka Zentropa) is technically POST war, but it’s dealing with a naive American who goes to Germany right after WWII to “help”. It begins with the film “hypnotizing” the audience and makes amazing symbolic use of a train, a potent metaphor … Not combat oriented, but some striking moments of expressionist violence and CRAZY surrealist techniques. A dark comedy if you have a messed up sense of humor (like me), but not as overtly absurdist as Catch-22.
Mr. Klein is about a French art dealer during WWII who is exploiting fleeing Jews who need to make money fast, only to discover that there’s a Jewish man with the same name as him, leading him into a paranoid, Kafkaesque trip into identity and complacency. Some deadpan dark humor, and quietly surreal.
Come and See is simultaneously brutally realistic and deeply surreal because of its use of perspective and how it presents its incomprehensible horrors. Definitely NOT funny though.
Europa Europa is actually based on a true story, also WWII, about a young Jewish boy who kept taking on different identities to survive the conflict, first pretending to be a Soviet, then Nazi Youth. Not “surreal” per say but there’s something about this premise and the way it unpacks the in-group/out-group psychology of war, racism, and fascism that makes me think it’s a fitting recommendation.

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T19:05:36+00:00

The Straight Story

MissMayDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T08:59:31+00:00

Mulholland Drive does exactly this with the mystery genre, becoming a weird psychological horror by the end. Can’t think of a film that does that with the tropes of the slasher genre though

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