What movie fucked you up mentally?

The Wall, Pink Floyd

I know that this isn't a movie, and it didn't actually fuck me up mentally, but it caused a strong impression in me for the rest of my young life, I learned what loneliness was even before feeling lonely for the first time or learning the word loneliness, the songs and the video were so good at communicating this adult angst that I understood it all without knowing those feelings or even the words for them. I was certainly less than 6 YO, maybe 5 or 4, funny thing is that my teenage brother had watched Akira with his friends and didn't wanted to me to see it because of all the gore and violence, but I saw it all and it didn't faze me in any way, I thought the animation was cool and that the anime was probably talking about something very important that I couldn't understand. Then some days latter my dad made me watch Yellow Submarine with him, I thought it was silly, nonsense and annoying, and basically hated it for the rest of my life. Later my dad begun to watch The Wall alone, probably because he thought I wasn't going to be interested, I sat there to watch it with him. I'm not even a native english speaker, I couldn't understand jack shit of what they were singing and showing, but I just could see and understand that the dude in that video was suffering a lot, it caused a very strong impression in me, I remember thinking something like "so this is what adults go through when they are sad". I mean, kids that age didn't experience loneliness yet, so they can't relate to a video or song that talks about loneliness, but The Wall communicates its message so well that I understood it. The hammers marching, the teacher yelling, the wall, the kids becoming potato face (I remember that I also wanted to become potato face), it all stuck with me for the rest of my young life, some kind of reminder of the kind of fucked up shit that I was going to face in my adult years, and it dreaded me, "I don't want to go through that kind of stuff" I thought many times during my child years. I also thought that my dad should have never allowed me to watch that thing, I wondered if The Wall was one of those adults things that I shouldn't have watched but my dumb dad allowed me, or if adults weren't aware of how fucked up that thing was for children. I certainly wouldn't allow my children to watch it.

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