9 Fantastic Movies Too Devastating To Watch More Than Once

There's surely no way to do justice to the sickening levels of oppression that were orchestrated against black people in America. But 12 Years A Slave gives it a shot, and the results are just all kinds of brutal.

This film, like any others that expose the extreme injustices of our world's history, is an important one to see. The directing is precise and unflinching, the acting is exceptional, and the story evokes as many varied and raw emotions from the viewer as any other Academy Award winner.

But as expertly crafted as 12 Years A Slave is, it's simply not worth putting yourself through more than once.

The amount of rage this film stirs up inside of you goes far beyond being therapeutic and straight into emotional fatigue. You get so angry so often over the course of that two hours that by the time it's finished, you'd think you'd have no energy left to be so full of fury...

...Until you wake up the next morning and still find yourself snarling as you recall the scene where a kidnapped, illegally enslaved man is forced to whip his friend because she left the plantation to get soap.

And the anger boils all over again. Your blood pressure would appreciate you only watching that once.