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This movie and "Grave of the fireflies" are the two movies which shook me the most emotionally. Masterpieces in their own right. Both put the horrors of war into proper perspective.

Interesting how as a teenager I would spend hours playing Mortal Combat, ripping peoples spines out, or Carmageddon and splattering peoples intestines all over the windshield. None of this prepared me for these two movies. I guess even at a younger age we're just good at separating fact from fiction.

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I would recommend Come and See to complete the trilogy of the devastation of war.

An extraordinary film that I recently found and watched on YouTube after years of being aware of it and its nightmarish reputation, and not looking too hard to find it in case I had no excuse not to watch it.

Seconded. No glamorization in that one.

Yeah but at the same time, PTSD from for example Mortal Kombat or Carmageddon can develop later in life / over a long period in time. One example, there's a pretty harrowing scene in Shaun of the Dead where one of the characters gets disemboweled. We have a 15 year old that watched that at a much younger age, didn't hit him, but when he saw it again it affected him a lot more.

I think being able to correlate and understand what's happening is a big factor in how things affect you. Films like Grave of the Fireflies apparently (I haven't watched it) hit much harder if you have kids for example.

> PTSD from for example Mortal Kombat or Carmageddon can develop later in life / over a long period in time.

Citation needed.

> We have a 15 year old that watched that at a much younger age, didn't hit him, but when he saw it again it affected him a lot more.

I'm not clear on how this is an example of delayed PTSD.

PTSD is a serious psychiatric condition and is not caused by playing mortal kombat or Shaun of the Dead.

If you want to experience the horrors of war from a videogame try "this war of mine".

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