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[selfishbuddy]

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[casimiranacel]

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[leech-scars]

Suicide Room (2011)

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[sweet-heart-jack]

#dominik santorski #suicide room #polish film

[yuureei]

Alex and Dominik, do I hear wedding bells? the kissing was so wet. when I watch you guys kissing I feel sooo hot. and I got a girl boner!

#sala samobòjcòw #jakub gierszal #suicide room

[tokiohotelmyhusbands]

TW!!!!

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[stomacel]

#disorder princess #breaking news #romania #polish movies #suicide room #suicide room movie #polish #poland

[logray]

SALA SAMOBÓJCÓW (2011) dir. Jan Komasa

#angelslatte #suicideroomedit #suicide room #filmedit #jakub gierszał #jan komasa #gifs** #xuseremily #useralison #userpeyton

[venusofthewired]

In case anyone's wondering how my summer is going...ᘛ⁠⁐̤⁠ᕐ⁠ᐷ

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[yurizzsblog]

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[milkshakecoffin]

Sylwia - suicide room

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[65478sblog]

#depressing shit #suicide room #i want to cvt

[darkcosmic87]

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[tomb-lore]

Polish movie hot take: Suicide Room would be a better movie if everyone except Sylwia swapped genders

#Suicide room #sala samobójców #I'M NOT JUST SAYING THIS BECAUSE I'M A LESBIAN CONTRARY TO A POPULAR BELIEF I AM NOT A LESBIAN OK #IT WOULD JUST MAKE MORE SENSE IT WOULDN'T ONLY BE COOLER DUE TO LESBIANS #BUT LESBIANS WOULD MAKE THIS MOVIE BETTER BUT THIS NOT THE ONLY REASON I PROMMY #My girlbesties keep calling me a lesbian only because I say women are sexy and I talk a lot about lesbians and send them lesbians #Why would they think that...................... #Polish toxic doomed yuri???? #For real though it would make more sense given the plot of the movie

[lunarmote]

Revisiting Suicide Room (2011)

Watch the same movie at age 12, 19, 25 - you'll react to it differently.

Two nights ago I watched a Polish movie with my art school friend S called the Suicide Room (Sala Samobójców). I’d seen this movie before about 5 times. The movie is about a gay high schooler called Dominik who gets "outed" by his former friend in an embarrassing public accident, is made the laughingstock of his class, and spirals into a depression. He seeks refuge in an online VR game where he meets a depressed girl who seems to understand him... As the movie goes on, he gets more sucked into the virtual world and loses touch with the outside world.

It's a film that seems to have gained a bit of a following in certain circles. It's criticized for the same drama that its followers praise it for -- depicting what it's like to have teenage depression. And all at once I am puzzled by this supposed "charge" against the movie: that it's melodramatic. The fact that there seems to be such a clean divide between older people calling it over-the-top and funny, an exercise in teens taking themselves so seriously, and teenagers idolizing the characters for being true-to-life, indicates to me this movie IS effective at highlighting some kind of bridge in preferences or empathy.

What does it mean for a film to be overdramatic?

I mean, this isn't the first teen movie to be called sentimental, melodramatic. As for myself, the film has lost the poignancy it once had but I am still incredibly fond of it.

This was my favorite movie as a teenager. At age 14, I begged my mom to be homeschooled. My overworked single mom panicked - a straight-A student threatening not to go to school was unheard of. The school administration freaked, set up "counseling" sessions where all they could do was talk glibly, soullessly, about the importance of education.

I remember watching Suicide Room that night and telling my mom I was perfectly willing to write a 5-page essay on my own on how the film was so beautiful and truthful and that if all English assignments were like this I would have no problems with school. I learned so much more through empathizing with the characters of Dominik and Sylwia than I learned through any school assignment. (It's interesting how this film works - it distracts you from your own pain by convincing you to, for an hour and 30 minutes, sympathize with another person. You come into the film wanting vindication, but you come away from it feeling like you lost a friend. I wanted to save Dominik.)

The fact that teenage angst seems to be near-universal, and the fact that adults eventually overcome it (I'd argue they don't actually, as many adults seem to be living in some kind of low-grade feelinglessness) doesn't suggest to me at all that the pain teens face is out of proportion, or that teens lack "perspective." It suggests rather, that perhaps adults have lost the memories of what it's like as a teenager, or they have lost sympathy towards that time of their life, since many people seem so embarrassed by their high school selves they try to scrub clean any memories of them.

I guess I can talk a little more about the main character in the film, Dominik. He is an entitled, condescending, sheltered kid. He nonetheless has a deep desire to connect with another human being. In the depths of his pain he turns to Sylwia who at first seems to be the provider of psychological support (and this time around, I picked up on this more strongly) - Dominik's redemption lies in the fact that he was willing to sacrifice himself to alleviate the pain of someone he thought had it worse than him. But his deepest flaw was not realizing that he had it worse.

Isn't that what happens? Your immediate environment fails you so you turn to the Internet. You find a community. You're led there by your own pain but you stay because you empathize with others' pain. But to break free of the pain means to break free of community.

A very clever scene exists in the movie. Sylwia is using Dominik to get herself pills so she can overdose. Torn between the threat of her hate and his fear of losing her to suicide, he talks to his psychiatrist through the closed door of his room while being in a voice call with Sylwia. The psychiatrist doesn't realize his answers have the double intention of showing Sylwia that ultimately, he will do as she wishes (get the pills), but not without stating his piece. He says he doesn't want to die. He doesn't understand suicide. His voice strains and he starts tearing up as he speaks to both - he doesn't understand how people who commit suicide could do that to their loved ones.

I've always wanted to stay up all night with Dominik. As a teen I wished I could pause the movie and jump in-universe and get through to him somehow, before the fatal incident. I told him I would stay up all night with him and we could just talk about, you know, life and death and beauty and our willingness to live, because sometimes you just need a friend.

So the film is dramatic. That’s what it takes to save a life.

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[netaraftayim]

𝐬𝐲𝐋𝐰𝐢𝟒

#sala samobójców #sylwia #dominik santorski #roma gąsiorowska #suicide room #sala samobojcow