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‘Left me physically exhausted’: readers on their most stressful movies ever

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Viggo Mortensen in The Road. Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy

United 93

When the film ended suddenly and silently I found I was gripping the seat armrests and noticed too that nobody moved. I can’t remember a cinema experience where literally nobody moved after a film ended. It was dead quiet for several seconds, I am guessing that many if not most of the audience had actually witnessed the real event on 9/11 on TV, as I had. Visceral cinema a bit too close to the bone, yet sensitive, nonexploitative and direction as tight as it gets. waxanimal

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