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11 Movies That Will Make You Go “Huh?”

When you watch a lot of movies, every once in a while you’ll come across one that baffles you, and the range of reactions to this encounter are pretty fascinating. These types of movies aren’t simply the mindtrip types of movies like Inception or Memento that are labyrinthine in terms of their plot progression but are fairly clear by the end in what they’re about. Truly confusing movies, the type where you’re left wondering what the hell you just watched and what the point of it even being made could have been, can create responses anywhere from anger and resentment towards seemingly pretentious filmmakers to delight in the abstract, personal meaning a viewer can derive from something deliberately vague or opaque.

10) Dogtooth

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Dogtooth

The craziest movie I have ever seen might be this movie out of Greece from 2009, which is basically impossible to describe in words—one of the signs of a film executed at the highest level. The reason I cherish WTF moments in movies so much is that witnessing something completely insane with your eyes versus reading about it are two completely different experiences, and the more profoundly powerful one is quite obviously the former.

Dogtooth, in my romanticized memory of it, is like one big long WTF moment that contains little WTF implications in each aspect. Let it suffice to say that this movie shows the potential dark side of people who shelter their children from the world. Some interpret this as allegory; I think it’s just generally messed up.

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