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Anything filmed in a Desert or in snow. Its so lifeless to me and I want to watch movies for the nice settings that I dont usually get to see. Not stinking hot, yellow tinted, sweaty, sand scenese. This is why I hate the first bit of Return of the Jedi....cant stand Tatooine. Or Cowboy movies where the ride around in lifeless deserts.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was such a great movie. And yes, the setting was depressing as hell.
This one is in my library. The whole mix of innocence and the father's selective vision is crushing. When they realize what has happened to their son at the end...
Sophie's Choice is the movie which I still find the most depressing of all. It wasn't about how back then, in the camp, she had to choose, but how while it took a long time to die, she started to then. The shots of the camp were also as accurate as they could make, and the actors were taught the way both prisoners and guards learned to walk in the mud which was always there.
Oddly, I find this movie one which is good to watch when I feel down. It takes you there and then there is no way but up.
The entire story of survival in The Road has the subtext of the boy resisting the man's turning away from his fellow man. Against his father's wishes, the boy insists that they share some of their provisions with the old man, Eli. And when the thief takes their belongings and the man is able to recover them, and he then takes the thief's clothing, the boy - knowing that it being winter this means the thief will surely die - insists that he be allowed to retain enough of his possessions to survive. For the boy, existing is not enough. He needs to also retain his humanity.
Sure, near the end the man dies. But he's been slowly dying the entire film, so that's no real surprise. And after the man's death, the boy finds a family with which he can live - hope, amidst the despair.
It's a bleak film, but the tale is one of the struggle for decency in a profoundly indecent environment, and the ending offers the possibility that decency prevails.
No movie can make me want to kill myself, but there are movies which make me feel lucky not to exist during that time in those conditions. These movies specifically involve black people in any movies depicting Slavery and Jim Crow, The Holocaust, soldiers during the Civil War or any war for that matter, native Americans being killed or mistreated, and Indians from India in any era, including "Bollywood".
Road to Perdition
Mystic River
Prisoners
Place Beyond the Pines
The Grey
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Road
The Swan
Revolutionary Road
Pans Labyrinth (hated)
Schindler's List
and BTW, I agree with the poster above, there was never a time, place, or movie that made me want to kill myself?
The entire story of survival in The Road has the subtext of the boy resisting the man's turning away from his fellow man. Against his father's wishes, the boy insists that they share some of their provisions with the old man, Eli. And when the thief takes their belongings and the man is able to recover them, and he then takes the thief's clothing, the boy - knowing that it being winter this means the thief will surely die - insists that he be allowed to retain enough of his possessions to survive. For the boy, existing is not enough. He needs to also retain his humanity.
Sure, near the end the man dies. But he's been slowly dying the entire film, so that's no real surprise. And after the man's death, the boy finds a family with which he can live - hope, amidst the despair.
It's a bleak film, but the tale is one of the struggle for decency in a profoundly indecent environment, and the ending offers the possibility that decency prevails.
yeah, but those are your feelings....not mine...and yes, your totally right in the description, but.....
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I believe this is set on real world. But the movie is depressing because of the living condition of the protagonist:
Pan's Labyrinth.
A poor unfortunate gal she was!
I believe this is set on real world. But the movie is depressing because of the living condition of the protagonist:
Pan's Labyrinth.
A poor unfortunate gal she was!
your right, I forgot....that movie was horrible....would watch it again
Schindler's list, also could never watch again....
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