can I slit my wrists now?

[winterbadger]

Flipping through my "saved to Instant view" list on Netflix, I came across a lode of Scottish films I added all together and decided to watch "Aberdeen".

Wow. I think the blinding headache and the feeling of mild-to-medium nausea I'm feeling may be the result of putting my contacts in again after a couple of weeks of not wearing them, plus too much coffee during our work off-site today. But it may be the result of watching the far-too-good acting of Stellan Skarsgard as a bingeing alcoholic and Lena Headey as his despairing and frequently coked-up daughter road-trip their way across Norway, England, and Scotland.

That is the sort of movie that is hard to watch, difficult to enjoy, but shows incredible talent by writer, director, and--most of all--actors.

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[schizokitty.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, those brilliant movies you watch once and only once because they were so painful. For me, things like Shawshank Redemption and Antonia's Line. And they even have an ultimately uplifting message. (I'm an emotional wuss. :-( )