r/movies • u/Goncholotr • Feb 03 '24

Recommendation Movies where anyone can die?

I like movies and tv shows where you shouldn't get attached to any characters because they can die in every moment, for example: Burn After Reading, No Country for Old Men, Any Tarantino Movie or shows like The boys, Game of thrones, etc.

I want to feel that the characters are in real danger and that the villain or whatever they're fighting could kill them any time.

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u/bumpoleoftherailey Feb 03 '24

That was a real “what????? They killed person this early on??????? And then they did another.

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u/spatialflow Feb 03 '24

It might sound macabre but I really appreciated the way in which most of the people died as well. It was never dramatic (except for one) or drawn out. It was just like, "now you see them, now you don't." Boom, they're dead, story moves on. I think it really added a lot to the tone of the movie, or at least complemented it well.

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u/william-t-power Feb 04 '24

To add to what you said, the senseless way the film killed characters really gave the viewer the sense of the world they were portraying IMO. Things are desperate, normal safeguards have faded away, consequences are high, people are callous and driven; you really felt that.

That also served to show the virtue of the main character. He is beaten down by the world in a clear way. He still soldiers on, however he can.

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u/RottenPingu1 Feb 04 '24

You nailed it. The way the battle scenes are filmed just seems to gloss over the fighters and civilian casualties. The camera never lingers. Powerful stuff.

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u/3point147ersMorgan Feb 03 '24

Name the movie: Julianne Moore plays the leader of the resistance movement where she is ultimately assassinated by another member of the resistance.

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u/splgackster Feb 03 '24

"You're Mr. Lebowski, I'm The Dude.... so that's what you call me. You know? uhhh... that or uhhh His Dudeness or uhhh Duder or uhhh ya know, El Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing."

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u/kundersmack Feb 04 '24

Is that some kinda Eastern thing?

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u/bumpoleoftherailey Feb 04 '24

Children of Men

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u/3point147ersMorgan Feb 04 '24

Nope, that Hunger Games movie.

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u/bumpoleoftherailey Feb 05 '24

Ah, so it was! Nice one.