I recently saw “Rampage” from 2009. Its basically a movie where a spree shooter is portrayed as the good guy/anti-hero. Several parts gave me that pit in your stomach, teeth gritting uncomfortable moment. I really hated it. Although I’m not surprised there are sequals I am disappointed and will not be watching them.

  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    6 days ago

    The Hunt (2012). Sweet guy gets accused by the child of his best friends to have abused her, thanks to suggestive questioning. Whole town turns against him, even though he’s innocent. I couldn’t finish watching it, because I was trembling and couldn’t watch the hopelessness and unfair treatment. Even worse, it’s based on a true story.

    • tedd_deireadh@piefed.socialEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Great movie. Mads Mikkelsen is fantastic as always. Horrible to watch someone go through that. I didn’t know it was based on a true story.

      • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Sorry, i misremembered: Vinterberg (director) got handed a bunch of anonymized cases by his psychiatrist:

        They were real cases from around the world. Most were about false memory syndrome and invented memories. The Hunt isn’t based on any individual case but it’s inspired by the ideas in them. The psychiatrist’s idea was that thought, ideas, can be a virus. Once a certain idea about a person takes hold, it can spread like wildfire. If The Celebration was about kids being victimized, this film is too but about victimization of another kind. When someone is accused of child abuse, the kids get interrogated by policemen and psychiatrists who repeatedly ask them the same questions. Sometimes, the kids give the grown-ups the answers they want. They say, ‘yes, he abused me.’ Then everyone goes crazy and for the child, his whole world falls apart.