I recently watched a movie entitled "The Devils Advocate" while I was home sick. It was odd but all-in-all good. There was a specific scene in this movie, however, that brought me great distraught and terror. I've grown up knowing death and even trying to kill myself and not fearing the such but feeling pitty for those who died and those around them who had nothing left but memories. The scene is the leading lady taking a shard of glass, jabbing it into her throat as hard as she could, and then slicing it across. There was so much blood..and the husband was understandably horrified. As soon as I saw this, my stomach litteraly began to hurt, my heart felt like it would burst. I was cringing and scratching at my skin, and curling up into a ball to try to get rid of the horrifing scene. Anyone else feel like that? Anyone know why it happened? It never has before..that was the first time I was truely horrified..Sickened..Scared..
2006-11-20 13:51:53 · 10 answers · asked by AndrewL 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I was sickened as well by that scene... I think it is a natural response to seeing an ending that shouldn't have happened, maybe because you have BEEN there, you felt an overly responsive feeling to what it would be like to be that person that is so hopeless... but you have lived on, and you are more powerful that the past, remember that always, what you have been able to overcome, even in the moments you are reminded of those dark places within the past.
2006-11-20 13:56:04 · answer #1 · answered by Craptacular Wonderment 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
God, I saw that movie when I was aprx.10 years old, and I was left almost with a trauma, maybe it was the most impressive movie I've ever seen, I mean, maybe some other movies like Saw or the Texas chainsaw massacre, that are so popular today for all the blood, and all that, maybe those are even more impressive, but they don't have the plot of the Devil's advocate, I particularly chase movies with topics about the devil, and I am not satanic, or anything, I am christian, but those kind of movies just attract me, because they really gives me the shivers, and make cry just thinking of hell, I also feel so weird inside with those movies, I feel like petrified, I mean, I cant explain it very well, but it's also the same that happens to you.
2006-11-20 14:09:21 · answer #2 · answered by Abbey Road 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The specific scene had a profound effect on me as well. I was appalled at the suicide scene. And, I wasn't prepared for exactly how gruesome it was portrayed. I love to watch horror movies, and I actually liked this movie. This scene happened, because she had to die. The devil needed her to die so Keanu Reeves would couple with his "sister". So basically, Charlize Theron needed to be out of the picture (literally). Although, things did not turn out that way after all, if my memory serves me correctly.
The scariest movie I have ever scene to this day is "The Exorcist". Second in line is "The Ring". I had a sort-of supernatural experience with "The Ring", and I won't go into it here, because no one would believe me anyway. But I will tell you this--I WILL NEVER watch that movie again. And after that happened to me, I put the DVD in the trash.
2006-11-20 14:05:16 · answer #3 · answered by adstidamrn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember that the story is told in tableau, it never really happens the ending shows us that it was only temptation. Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey . Charlize Theron was being driven to madness by Pacino's character, AKA Satan. She was attempting suicide to relieve the pain of what she had seen. The most disturbing scene for me was the fresco in Pacino's Apt/condo. When the figures started moving and the agony they represented was a real stomach turner as you say. Remember you have the power to resist. The thing that separates those who do and those who don't is the idea that just because you can think it doesn't mean it has to be acted upon.
2006-11-20 13:58:28 · answer #4 · answered by Joe Schmo from Kokomo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes when you're unwell, your conscious mind takes a bit of a back seat and you become vulnerable to suggestion and start to empathise with things on TV and in films.
It's a film about Evil messing with humans who are foolish enough to not see they are being messed with. And about somebody turning their back on everything that is important to him so he can have more, and more....and more......until he ends up with nothing. That should bother most people but most will say "It's only a film." There are plenty of people who are blindly led down the garden path by evil which is why we empathise with that kind of story. That film does make you feel empathy to his helplessness, especially in that scene.
If you react that badly to some films, you should probably avoid that type as it won't do you any good to watch them. There's no shame in that, it's just how it affects you.
Devil's advocate didn't scare me, nor did The Exorcist (the sound of the posessed voices was partly from arecording of a real exorcism and it makes my skin shrink) but the original Japanese version of The Ring did make me feel very uncomfortable when going up the dark stairs to bed!
2006-11-20 14:13:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a panic attack and it is normal for some. I have a friend who had the same thing happen wheh she saw The Emily Rose movie...she just couldn't stomach it. The movie was supposed to scare you it's just that most of us are too jaded to scare at movies...or anything else for that matter.
2006-11-20 13:55:25 · answer #6 · answered by Mary B 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry dear. I knew it was coming so I didn't watch. By the way, that is a movie you don't want to watch again...it's evil. When I saw it in the theater, I could feel demons taking great pleasure from so many people being sickened by the very things you are describing. Very much like "The Exorcist".....satan loves these movies.
2006-11-20 13:54:23 · answer #7 · answered by Esther 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That's called a visceral reaction. That's exactly the type of responce the director looking for. The shock of the image shown is so overwhelming it causes a physical reaction in the audiance.
2006-11-20 14:02:13 · answer #8 · answered by S.A.M. Gunner 7212 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe I didnt get that scared but, it made me burst out in tears.
I couldnt believe how real everything was. I was so glad the ending was how it was. But it still scared me when it turned into Al Pachnio's face though! :)
2006-11-20 13:56:25 · answer #9 · answered by ◙Blue-Eyed♥Red-Headed♥Bella◙ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really enjoyed the movie, but it did not have that affect on me.
Another movie did affect me, made me sick to my stomach, so I do understand your feelings.
2006-11-20 13:55:38 · answer #10 · answered by peaceandharmonyandmercy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋