10 Movie Scenes From 2017 That Upset These Actors

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4. Arnaud Valois And Nahuel Pérez Biscayart In Beats Per Minute

While Tom Hanks in Philadelphia and Sean Penn in Milk played gay characters beautifully, when it comes to portraying every painful emotion and joyous celebration of the characters onscreen, B.P.M. (Beats Per Minute) is way different. Arnaud Valois and Nahuel Pérez Biscayart play lovers and AIDS activists but there the angelic beauty ends. B.P.M. doesn’t shy away from the grittier aspects of the story, like many films about diseases and dying do, especially when AIDS is involved. Despite the disease and its fatality, B.P.M. displays intimacy in all its simple complexity. The most moving scene of 2017? A scene in a Paris hospital room: brave, defiant, and beautiful. Nahuel found the movie tough on many levels for he is playing Sean, a man who is dying and had to alter himself physically, losing weight to look ill. Valois, who was moonlighting as a masseur in Thailand found the movie emotionally gruelling, enough to half almost quit midway. But that’s the price of a masterpiece.

3. Teresa Palmer In Berlin Syndrome

Any fan of slasher horror or movies like The Room would have loved Berlin Syndrome. The film is actually a scary AF watch, combining s*xual anxiety horror (as is shown in the punishment of promiscuity in slasher films) with more of trapped and claustrophobic terror. Intimacy and vulnerability go hand in hand in movies like these, as well as being absolutely terrified. Hacksaw Ridge star Teresa Palmer stars as the victim who has a one night stand with a teacher, who obviously turns into a villain and holds her captive. She wants to escape but for that, she has to work on showing sympathy and giving emotional support to her captor, especially after discovering that she was not the first woman he’s held there. The kind of psychological backstory Teresa needed to construct to act out her heart shows some gumption and obviously, roles like these are never easy to play. They linger long after the movie has come and gone.