Nightmare
I remember I was young first seeing it. And it is the only film I ever had nightmares afterwards. Shaking from fear running to my moms bed for safety. Haven't seen it since then.
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i've never seen the movie, but i've read half of the book, and it gave me nightmares. which is pretty pathetic, because i'm 15 and should be above such things, but i suppose i must have a vulnerable metality, because the novel is highly distrubing, thought-provoking, nightmareish, and fascinating all at the same time. if the film is anything at all like the book, i can very well see why it gave a young child a nightmare. after all, the book gave me a few. of course, i must mention that i get nightmares frequently about various things, so perhaps it was not the book that gave me nightmares, but myself. i can only compare the all consuming terror o my dreams to something an alienated fictional character such as Oskar might feel.
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Wow, talk about a slow respons. I was dumb enough not to mention in my post that I was about 7 or 8 when I saw the movie, maybe even younger. And just because I had nightmares about the movie, it doesn't mean it's a bad movie, contrary even!
shareBelieve it or not I watched this movie as a kid...like on cable at 11 or 12 and so did some of my friends in the neighborhood!!! (Boy were our parents liberal or what!?!) While I did not get all of it then, later on in college I was struck by the similarity of the imagery and symbolism in this film and that of the Bunel and Dali film Un Chien Andelu
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