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Skullduggery (1970)
I have gravitated toward Darwinism ever since...
I don't really think I'm spoiling anything, but I ticked the box just in case...
I saw this film once and only once when it came on network television one night in the very early 70's, I was at most 7 years old and I have thought about the movie ever since.
Missing link upright bipeds, used as slaves and a court case to determine rights applicable to them.
Someone else's comment was that it was boring. What I recall of it is that the story and climactic finale made me cry until I threw up. I don't recall if the acting was good, or how the movie flowed. I just remember being highly affected by what I had seen and understanding that people also treated other people that way.
Yay for empathy, a new experience for me as a child.
I look forward someday to seeing it again as an adult.
Testament (1983)
powerful, empathetic, and lingering.
A powerful film which relies not on special effects,but on a tremendous story told by believable actors. It isn't the story of an explosion, or why the event happens...it is aftermath, far from ground zero. This was the first independent film I ever saw. At 18 in 1983, this film clarified for me the slow and horrific "truth" of collateral damage. It is powerful, empathetic and lingering. I could imagine my family in the place of the characters, regular people whose lives are interrupted and destroyed with no one to answer why.