I’d take that over my generation’s childhood trauma any day:
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Artax! Don't give up!
You're gonna have to fill me in here. I don't know this reference.
The horse the audience has grown attached to becomes depressed, and allows himself to sink slowly beneath the mud. The boy understands what is happening and that the depression is going to kill his friend. He pleads and panics as the horse very graphically sinks out of sight with an incredibly disturbing practical effect that must have been real life animal cruelty. Then the boy is left alone in the swap. It's a fucking brutal scene that symbolizes suicide.
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The Neverending Story. That's the scene where Artax the horse gives up and let's the bog of depression drown him
Never ending story the horse is with the kid through thick and thin then gets stuck in a swamp and kid has to leave him behind.
Small clarification, he gets stuck in the swamp of despair basically. He only gets stuck and dies because he loses hope. Atreyu tries to cheer him up and give him hope, and it's that scene that's depressing AF. It's like something out of old yeller.
Atreyuu
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Here's some more trauma:
The novel it's based on makes it clear that The Neverending Story is a psychic parasite that traps young readers in an escapist fantasy, never growing up, never facing your real fears, just endless running down an egocentric treadmill of main character syndrome.
I read the book (as a kid) and didn't get that from it at all, but that sort of subtlety would have gone over my head. I'll have to read it again if I can bring myself to do it.
I do remember seeing the movie after reading the book and being pretty annoyed as the movie only covers about the first half.
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This movie got a lot of grief, but I liked it. It was simultaneously a let down and scary to see the alien. As far as aliens go, it’s a pretty boring generic biped. But the suspense and buildup to seeing it, and the way they presented the scene as the viewer seeing it recorded alongside terrified people was great. Nailed it.
Maybe the worst aspect of the movie was the beyond-the-grave prompts regarding water and baseball bats. Meh. But the rest was pretty good.
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Could’ve easily been a screenshot of the last air bender
There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.
What scene is that?
It's from Signs. It's the first time you see the aliens, from a shakycam newscast. Scared the hell out of little me.
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SFW version of trauma ("There's Something About Mary", zipper scene)
How'd you get the beans over the frank?
Big beans.
The aliens that were allergic to water invaded a planet that's 71% covered in water. Such a stupid movie, such a bad director.
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Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake's plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors.
That's real childhood trauma.
Most of the “childhood trauma” people are citing are things that weren’t aimed at children to begin with. Try some Watership Down (1978) at 2pm on BBC1 during the Christmas holidays.
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Was I the only one pissed off that the Brazilian kids suddenly speak English in that scene? “It’s behind!”
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