Hard Candy - she pretends to castrate a man on a belief that he’s an internet stalker of young girls - that scene was hard to watch especially with the terror on the victim’s face.
Sleepers - the whole ‘ownership’ attitude of the guards when they sodomize the kids in their ‘care’
Happiness - this movie was pitched as a comedy drama with a father teaching his son how to masterbate, a father who’s a child molester and rapes a friend of his son - wrong on all levels
Kids - watching children rape children isn’t just confronting and an ‘arthouse reflection of real life’; it’s almost an indulgence of the film-maker’s own fantasies
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - very strange movie, the erk factor being when the lover and the wife are hiding in the maggotty meat van outside the restaurant. A meat van crawling with green, slimy rotted meat, maggots and all manner of vomit inducing things
The Ice Storm - not just a snapshot on a couple of ‘average 70s families’ but a whole lot of lies, swinging between couples and OMG, you just knew that that boy was going to die at the end for no good reason after the ice storm hit. Big time squirm.
But for you the Borat wrestling scene? I found the whole retarded brother raping the prostitute sister far worse! “But one day, he break outta the cage, and he get the ginnie” (But for women, a pair of hairy balls on one’s chin probably isn’t unheard of!)
Squirm for whatever reason, eh? There’s a particular setup common in American sitcoms where embarrassment (usually due to misunderstanding) is supposed to be funny, but all it does to me is leave me awkward and slightly embarrassed myself.
Except in Coen Brothers movies. They do “awkward” very well, so I squirm a little bit but enjoy it nonetheless. In particular, the “Marriott” scene in Fargo.
I squirm uncomfortably in any movie that has a character making some embarrassing speech to another character. I feel all of the physical reactions of being really embarrassed myself. I am, of course, drawing a blank on any titles right now. Usually it’s fluffy romantic comedies with scenes like that in them.
This doesn’t really count in movies and I may not be squirming for the same reasons as many of you, but Steve Carrell in The Office does this to me. Some of his speeches and comments are so off the wall or inappropriate that I just can’t help but squirm and think “oh my god, did he say that?”
Really?? Me too! I end up crying through shows that are supposed to be funny, because I feel so bad for the person(s) getting embarassed.
Anything that has eyeball stuff makes me squirm. ANYTHING! Even seeing someone put in contacts. I can watch people getting dismembered or blown up, but eyes make me shudder.
Also, anything that has bad things happening to kids. Rape, murder, disease, you name it. I have a really hard time watching stuff like that, mostly because I have a very high suspension of disbelief, so it ends up seeming far too real and making me squirm.
Yes . . . Reese had already had an affair with another teacher, Broderick’s friend, who got fired when the principal found out. I got the impression Broderick wasn’t exactly lusting after Reese; rather, he was scared shitless of having to work with her as faculty advisor to the student-body president and being exposed to the constant temptation; also she kinda squicked him out. That was why he talked the popular, dumb, good-hearted football hero into running against her.
The Cell. The scene where the boy (the murderer in his memory) is about to get hit with an iron, I believe? I turned it off. Both times I tried to watch it. And there’s a hazy memory about the boy’s father trying to get him to have sex with the mother? Can’t watch it.
Actually I think he simultaneously lusted after her AND loathed her. There are a few little clues, like his secret stash of cheerleader porn and the little interlude with her face popping up on his wife that hint at that. He almost certainly would never have acted on it ( he did intensely dislike her and had his own warped, self-deceiving sense of propriety ), but IMO there was a spark of sexual attraction that added to his overall confusion and misery.
