ITT: Movies that give you a unique feeling you can’t articulate

I’m generally pretty good at putting my thoughts and feelings into words, especially when it comes to things like film and literature, but sometimes a movie will give me a unique feeling that I REALLY enjoy but struggle to describe. It’s a different feeling with each movie but they’re all equally difficult for me to describe, which makes it hard for me to find movies with a similar feeling. Sometimes my friends with similar tastes will understand what I’m trying to describe and will have an equally difficult time articulating it, so we just call it a je ne sais quoi and move on. Most of the time, however, it seems like it’s only me who gets that feeling from a movie.

It’s similar to those nostalgic memories you have that would probably seem mundane to other people but are significant to you. No amount of describing the memory will make another person understand why it’s significant to you because they aren’t you. The same goes for these unique feelings I get from movies sometimes. The wistful feeling Brick gives me is the easiest to describe because it fits with the movie’s melancholic tone.

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Brick was filmed in my high school. I cry every time I watch it but I cant explain why.

I watched this when I was sixteen and afterwards laid down in bed just completely devestated with life for some reason. I'm sure I'd find it tame now as my soul has been ruined beyond repair in the 11 years since but when I was pure it absolutely haunted me.

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Really?

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I'm not a huge fan of Brick, but you can tell it meant a lot to the filmmaker at the time he made it, that's probably what you're talking about. You can tell when a movie's made with love instead of just a cash-grab flick

Brick is gay shit for dumb fags, clearly

I wonder how outerspace Brick will be

this one gave me such an odd feeling that i really cant describe. i'm not even sure if i like the feeling but i definitely like the movie

The guy who directed this is now directing Star Wars, and it looks about as imaginative as someone copy and pasting ESB and saying they made it.

I know what you mean. I was fourteen when I watched it and it hit me pretty hard for some reason. It doesn't help that the whole movie was filmed a town over from where I lived at the time.

off yourself, faggot

beautiful girls for me. knight of cups, also.

very personal movies give that odd vibe that you can't describe. you peer into the director's soul.

>you peer into the director's soul
I peer into your bitch's pussy after I bust her wide open, faggot

good example

this movie gave me a unique feeling in my pants

brick was filmed in my high school

I couldn't tell ya.

btfo

t. trenchcoat laden beta

for me, it was La Grande Bellezza. i guess blissful would be a good word for the feeling i felt during/after it. one of the few movies that made me want to live a better life.

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I really wish that movie gave me the same end-of-movie emptiness that Interstellar did. I mean I love both Adams and Renner, and I have a (somewhat biased) soft spot for Denis' movies, but it didn't exactly wrap everything up in a nice envelope of existential questions and vastness. It felt a little pushy on the whole "please bring peace to your hearts" ordeal.

off yourself, faggot

t. trenchcoat laden beta

The Social Network. It really resonated with me in HS in some way that I just can't seem to articulate or put into words. A certain comfiness and reassurance that Jesse Eisenberg's portrayal of Mark "The social retard" Zuckerburg gave me, despite hating Fakebook Mark's kike ass.

It really helped to inspire my love of computers and IT in general, but it's difficult to explain why. Part of it may have been the reassurance I felt from the premise of Mark creating Facebook out of spite of his gf dumping him or something.

off yourself, faggot

I liked this movie a lot better before the Star Wars fags became aware of it.

t. trenchcoat laden beta

Forgive me for being out of the loop, but what do you mean? What did Star Wars fags do to Brick?

off yourself, faggot

specifically these sequences where he's wandering tokyo in a daze.

t. trenchcoat laden beta

That's the power of a Trent Reznor soundtrack.

I don't know what it is. I've seen the movie a ton of times but I can't put my feelings into words.

understanding maybe? feeling less alone?

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off yourself, btw

It is a pretty GOAT OST.

In Bruges.
Just left me sad that it ended

t. trenchcoat laden beta

Carlito's Way makes me feel a little nostalgic (maybe because when Carlito comes back to his life he sees everything he knew has changed) and a little anxious (because he's trying to do his best and I feel like I am wasting my life away every fucking day)

Gonna get memed on for this, but Silver Linings Playbook. Mainly because my brother has suffered from mental illness his whole life much like the main character in that movie, only my brother's is a lot more debilitating. Still, overall, the movie really nailed all the ticks that make paranoid schizophrenics start to unravel, and the way it was presented just made me stop and think about him for a while.

I was never very understanding of his issues and I always blamed him for the violent things he'd say and do. I wonder now whether or not he'd be different if I had spent more time trying to help and less time trying to avoid.

Felt sick leaving the theatre. Movies and shows rarely make me feel anything these days but this one did it.

The pageant scene was masterful.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Something about two people being drawn together by a mutual sense of loneliness and detachment really tickles my pickle. I can only really describe the feeling the movie gives me as a slight sense of solace.

whole movie makes me feel like i'm alone in winter

I never know if I should cry, get sick at my stomach or masturbate.

Maybe all 3 at the same time.

Like regret mixed with nostalgia mixed with my dick mixed with sadness and disgust

Drive

Harmonymind

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Not nostalgia, because I didn't have any of this sensation in college, not jealousy, I have no idea what feeling it is, but I feel wistful.

Linklater movies do. Sometimes I think I'm not doing much with my life and that feeling of wishing I could've done more in my youth+remembering the good times I did have+the inevitability of age with time and growing old and not wanting to but time goes on quicker and quicker. I don't know how he manages to make me feel all these thing with almost all of his movies. It's the most crushing feeling.

>same exact time
>one number apart
>same director
>content of the post is almost the same
what the fuck

this movie hit real fucking close to home for me. my dad wasn't crazy but he went through a ten year phase when i was a kid where he was really into conspiracy theories, especially religious ones. he kept going to increasingly greater lengths to "prepare" us for the inevitable shitstorm, whether it was a race war, US civil war, government persecution of christians, or whatever. eventually we were able to convince him that he was fucking losing it and hurting the family as a result and he's been fine ever since. he's still into conspiracy theories but he doesn't pester us with them and doesn't let them affect his life.

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Do you carry the fire?

the power of har-money

Tragic but glad to hear he's doing better.

Jeff Nichols is a master at scoping masculinity.

In the Mood for Love
Last Life in the Universe
Fallen Angels
Paris, Texas

With third season, mr robot is very reminiscent of Deus Ex (1) for me. I mean, there's obvious things like vaguely reminiscent music, trash in the streets and desperate people. But also, the hurried feeling that "it's not cyberpunk just yet, but we're on the verge of it, any second now".

So I put it into words, I guess I'm disqualified.

I don't really know, I can't think of a vibe around any movie that I can't describe. Sometimes it's hard and the explanation will be extremely vague, but it's an explanation nonetheless, definitely something I can put my finger on.

gf contributes though, with 25th hour. Just described it with "I shouldn't like it, there's no reason for me to like it, but I do for some reason".

You're the apple of my eye (Taiwanese film)

Derek cianfrances movies, Blue Valentine and especially place beyond the pines. something about the upstate new york/new englandy thing

Wow, you're not kidding. I just took a look at his filmography and didn't realize he was the guy who did Take Shelter, Mud, and Midnight Special. He even has a hard-on for my favorite underused actor in Hollywood (Michael Shannon). I'm not sure how this director wasn't on my radar already.

>having feelings
What are you a woman

I'm scared

I've been metaphorically sucking his dick as a director for years. He's so underappreciated in a time when so many men seem to be confused about what it means to be one.

Whether it's fatherhood, being a husband or a son, a friend or a mentor, he just understands the difficulties and efforts made in each.

I think having repressed or confused feelings brought into the forefront by movies is sort of the theme here.

The last 5 minutes of Six Feet Under.

I know what you mean perfectly. And you posted the perfect movie to describe it too. This movie made me feel something I can't yet describe fully, maybe it was the dreary atmosphere, maybe it was the strange dialogue, because normal people don't usually talk like how they did in the movie which gave it a surrealistic feeling. It feels like a dream movie, maybe that's what you mean.

I know what you mean, user. It's Such A Beautiful Day absolutely fucking annihilated me and I can't really put into words how. I was suicidally depressed when I first saw it, and it left me in such a profound, emotional state I basically locked myself in a room for two days.

>It feels like a dream movie

That's a great way to describe it.

brick has so many young and handsome why didn't they have hot gay sex especially brendan and brain ;_;

I get this feeling from a lot of animated films, especially if I watched them when I was younger. This sounds like I'm shit posting, but I actually feel this feel the most when I watch Ed Edd N' Eddy's Big Picture Show, the full length film that aired on Cartoon Network and acted as the series finale for the show. There is something about this film that is so surreal and comforting. About a third of the way through the film, the main characters walk through an open farm field and then into a sunflower field as the sun hangs over them, and for whatever reason it is just blissful as fuck to look at. The feeling reminds me of that old "Bliss" wallpaper that Windows used to have as the default wallpaper.

>first scene
>oh shit it's gonna be kino
>the rest is pure garbage
fuck this flick

Something I never got about that movie - was everybody in the script supposed to be "different"?

He has mental illness
She has mental illness
His dad clearly has OCD or something, is obsessed with football scores
His mom was weird and distant

It took me out of the movie because it seemed like every single character had mental illness. WTF was going on?

Oh man, as much as I loved that show as a kid it still gave me a really disturbing feeling that's similar to the one Coraline gave me. Even before I read the purgatory theory I would always feel like the town they were in was some kind of small, inescapable hell that they were all trapped inside. It was like they existed in a bubble that was separate from the rest of the world or even reality itself.

>It was like they existed in a bubble that was separate from the rest of the world or even reality itself
That's interesting because that's part of what I find comforting about it. Especially in the movie, they're outside of the cul-de-sac for the whole film and the outside world is completely devoid of other humans too. I don't know why I like that emptiness so much but I do.

Eyes Wide Shut for me

I saw Brick when I first strarted dating girls who were hipsterish 7 years ago and I was such a different person back then.

I still cringe when I think about how much I trashed that movie when I first watched it. I was craving post-apocalyptic movies like fucking crazy, to the point where I was watching trash-tier indie shit, and The Road was highly recommended. I watched it but it wasn't what I was expecting at all and I dismissed it because all I really wanted was dumb post-apocalyptic action and shit. I ended up rewatching it years later and realized how much of a faggot I was for trashing it.

Same. Its one of my go to films when I'm in a comfy depression haze. Something about the portrayal of Zucks feelings of inadequacy and spite for women which drives him to build an empire just resonates with me

I've always hated the feelings of confinement and emptiness. Two of my biggest fears are being trapped in small rooms and being stuck in the middle of a large body of water.

I think the moral was that everyone has their own inner demons to face. Your mother, father, family members, etc; nobody's really as well-balanced as they claim to be. It's a really old point to hammer in, honestly, but I enjoyed the way the movie did it.

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Everything in this ending was so beautiful, I couldnt describe what I saw.

Knight of Cups for me too. Also Twin Peaks, particularly FWWM and Season 3

Interstellar
Good Will Hunting
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Restless
Garden State
Batman V Superman
Man of Steel
Extremely Loud and Incredibly CLose
Juno
(500) Days of Summer

That movie was so fucked up

Sauce?

I get a unique feeling from watching these.

>Stranger Things
>Moonrise Kingdom
>Let the Right one In
>Ponyo

Its young love, shit wrecks me, its a physical reminder that I never experienced it, and these movies let me live it vicariously.

Speaking of Joseph Gordon-Levitt

BEST FILM EVER
i only watched the rehp scenes
so hot

The first part of Chungking Express. I've watched it a lot and I don't even know why

did the chungking express go chu chu chu?

Paris, Texas