5. The Rules Of Attraction (2002)
The song: 'Without You' by Nilsson Calling 'Without You' a perfectly innocent pop song may be pushing it a bit, yet I suppose it's got more chance of catching you unawares on the radio than Elliott Smith's 'Needle in the Hay'; used in a similar scene in The Royal Tenenbaums. The second entry on our list to come from a Bret Easton Ellis novel adaptation, this flimsy satire on rich-kids-gone-wild would be forgotten completely were it not for one scene. It involves a bath, a blade and a song now more famously associated with Mariah Carey. It ain't pretty. After writing a suicide note to her crush Sean (James Van Der Beek), an unnamed girl sits in a bathtub and runs a razor down her wrists. At first, the camera stays with the increasingly pained expression on her face before peering down from the ceiling to reveal the gory details. As her blood fills the bath, and with the rows of candles placed at either side, it's a deeply affecting yet almost beautiful scene. Few films have portrayed suicide so powerfully. And the song, originally by Badfinger and once described by Paul McCartney as ''the killer song of all time'', floats through the room, as heart-wrenching as ever. Thankfully, this version - with its vocals distorted as the girl's life drains away - is kept off the airwaves.