I was fairly shocked, I started out watching the rebuild movies and I was NOT ready for the OG series. My reaction was me sitting on my chair staring at my ceiling thinking <3

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In modly mode - I'm surprised there's not an obvious thread already. I've pruned one of the duplicates of the OP.

As forum member - the archetypal reaction is "WTF did I just watch", and mine was not too different. It went from sitting there numbly, to rewatching, to realising that that emotional gut punch was how it ended, trying to make positive sense of it, and in the following days, vomiting up a couple of fix-fics to purge it from my system. That was nearly 22 years ago, but the scars remain.

I like many others was perplexed, I knew that it was unlike anything that I had ever seen before and had a difficult time making sense of it. Over subsequent viewings however I was able to reconcile the films themes and insights on the human psyche and found it to be one of the most impactful and fascinating films I've ever seen. I definitely think it's worth watching more than once because it's so much to take in that I don't think that a single viewing could truly do it justice.

I remember I thought I was following it well enough and then was like "huh!?" when it abruptly ended at the beach scene. Thought it still had a bit to go and it ending so suddenly caught me off guard.