• ToeKneegee@lemm.ee
    4·
    7 days ago

    The documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a son About His Father.

    Starts out as a home project someone was putting together after his friend died so that his unborn son would know his father and it just gets worse from there. Amazing movie, would not recommend unless you need a few good cries

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    101·
    8 days ago

    More recent, The Whale is a triumphant return for Brendan Frasier that was absolutely stunning. And I can never watch it again. It’s so good because it was so gut wrenching. Everyone should see it - once.

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
    91·
    8 days ago

    Everyone should watch and enjoy Life is Beautiful.

    And then everyone should have a nice rest period to let their feelings recover before considering rewatching. Minimum a decade, no maximum.

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
        3·
        7 days ago

        Agreed! I’ll usually choose an audio dub over the original audio, but for “Life is Beautiful”, the original Italian is so incredibly expressive, it’s worth the subtitles to me.

        The lead actor does speak English, and if I recall correctly, he did record the English audio dub. But I feel like it still loses some of the impact of original Italian performance.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    8 days ago

    Probably Dragonfly. It’s not a world class movie or anything. Most of it was draggy as hell. But then that ending hits, and it’s worth it.

    But I don’t think that a second watch would have the same wow factor at the end. Knowing it’s coming, and still having to slog through the first half, I don’t believe I’d enjoy it.

    Edit: or gone with the wind. Great movie, but it’s gotten harder to ignore the flaws in the story despite the movie itself being a masterpiece. I think if I watched it again now, knowing more about the era and the bullshit that got crammed into the book that showed up in the movie, I couldn’t be immersed in it.