I finished A Farewell to Arms a few years back and I'm still hesitant to read anything by Hemingway.
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- That was just so vividly depressing and anxiety inducing I couldn't go more than a few pages a week, and eventually I just stopped and read the summery instead.
I didn't turn it off but that scene in Farha with the baby was brutal when you have one in the room with you
"Shoah." I couldn't make it through all 9 hours.
127 Hours
I won't spoil it, if you know the story/movie, you can probably guess which scene I turned it off during...
I did come back and finish it a few hours later, but it's the first movie/show I've turned off because it was just too much.
Them. Too brutal, cannot watch.
My girlfriend couldn't continue watching Mommy when the war started, it just became too intense for her.