Movie Connections

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Part of what I find hard about the show is the moral/ethical darkness. I was too young (dob 1960) to really have much of an idea about what was happening, but for some reason, the show is too intense.

I'm still on Season 1. Last night I watched the episode where Draper's brother comes to the agency hoping to re-establish contact with his long lost brother and later Draper goes to his lodgings and pays him off so that he'll disappear. I found this much more disturbing than the multiple infidelities. Obviously, the makers of the show have not provided a lot of detail to keep people wondering about Draper's past so that they'll continue to keep watching.

To me the whole thing seems very foreign-both the time period and the world that it is set in.

In terms of finding movies/series difficult to watch, I found the Australian movie Little Fish (former drug addict tries to make good, but is drawn back in to contact with her previous lifestyle when an old boyfriend reappears) starring Cate Blanchett exceedingly disturbing as although it's not a world that I've ever inhabited, I imagine that it's not one that you have to try very hard to find.