Movie's to make your insides hurt

this will make your soul hurt as you watch four people's lives unwind and fall apart with the abuse of heavy drugs. The more you watch, the lower the characters get, the more you wish you could just somehow make them all stop the madness.

a very interesting movie, it's sad to see a man slowly begin to fade away and how close being an infant and a decrepit old man are so close to each other. instead of seeing an old man close his eyes, you see an infant slowly close his eyes and go sleep.. The parts where his wife grows older and he grows younger and how she slowly has to take onthe role of mother and grandmother for him, not being able to love him as a man as he once was.

i know i've used this on other lists on here, but this is still a tear jerker. All the bull and hell they go through to just go home, that not all heros live and return. The battles become more and more desperate until in the end, most of our heros are dead or dying.

loaded with powerful scenes that pull and tug at multiple emotions at once. From the racist cop who sexually harassed a woman, and now has to climb through a burning wreck to try and save her. To the locksmith who witnesses his little girl get shot in his arms trying to protect him from a disgruntled client, to a good intentioned cop who's demented mother blames for all the bad things thta have happened in their lives. This movie has some heavy moments.

All the pain and danger the older brother goes through for the sake of protecting his brother, and his brother doesn't understand this. When the younger brother finally finds the skeletal remains of his brother in a trench decades later as an old man, you feel his pain as he kneels before the corpse and tearfully talks to it, asking his dead brother why didn't he ever come home, why didn't he ever write, call, or visit. and now he finally knows why, his brother died protecting him.

there's enough sad scenes in this film to justify wrist slitting, but seeing the loveable oaf that if Forrest Gump, take on and face harrowing moments and experiences with a calm demeanor, watching his best friend die in Vietnam, the love of his life dying from AIDS, to his mother finally passing, it's sad to see the ones who mean the most to him die one by one until it's him and a son he barely knows.

what started out as an inspiring underdog story, quickly turns into a gut wrenching tale of failure, defeat, and disappointment. great acting, tense, but utterly sad.

did not expect how this movie ended. It was really inspiring at first, but then it just gets darker and darker.