Hello and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks, the weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves. The rules are very simple, each Thursday we pick three to five films to fit the week's theme.
This week we have to pick films that are either too bad, too disturbing or too painful to watch twice.
Compliance (2012) [Review]
Becky is accused of stealing from a customer and she gets sexually humiliated by a man on the phone who claims to be a police officer. This is one of the most twisted films I've seen. I take that back. It's one of the most disgusting films I've seen because this actually happened in the US. The movie itself isn't great but I kept watching because I needed to know those crimes weren't left unpunished.
Hotel Rwanda (2004) [Review]
During the Rwandan Genocide, Paul Rusesabagina saves the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages. Again, another true story that is so brutal, it makes the film very hard to watch. This is, however, a great film about a true hero and deserves to be watched.
Precious (2009)
Precious is an abused and illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child, both children fathered by her biological father. She joins an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction. I think I've seen this movie 8 years ago but I still remember how I felt while watching it. This one too is great but it's also one of the most brutal and emotionally wrenching films I've seen.
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