Re: Most disturbing movie scene
[quote]Originally posted by Cam
[b]What do you feel is the most disturbing movie scene you can recall? Whether it is disgusting humor, graphic violence, or horror it doesn't matter. Something that when you saw it for the first time, you almost had to avert your eyes, or just felt like throwing up. And still gives you that feeling whenever you think about it or see it.
For some reason I don't really understand (because there's lots more graphic and awful stuff on the movie screens these days), my most disturbing scene is from the film "Never Give A Inch" (now retitled to match the book from which it was made, Ken Kesey's "Sometimes a Great Notion"). There is a scene when one of the logging family members is trapped underwater by a log, and his brother tries to buddy breathe with him until the water rises enough to float the log off of him. The brother who is pinned finds humor in having to "kiss" his brother through this predicament, and begins to make goofy faces, finally breaking out in laughter...underwater. And he drowns.
It is a very disturbing scene in so many ways. Anyone else seen this very fine and often overlooked Paul Newman film?
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