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We have that other thread on "feel good" movies, movies that are uplifting and leave you feeling happy about life. But what about the opposite? It seems that more and more intn he past 15 years of so, we've had more and more Feel Bad movies.
Sure, in lots of movies, people experience horrible adversity, but when they oversome it, it can be inspiring, turning it into a feel-good movie after all. But some movies just leave the viewer depleted of all hope...
My first example is Precious. Depressing & dismal. Nothing about a person "overcoming adversity;" that would possibly turn it toward "feel good." No, it's just so terribly depressing that as a viewer I could just slit my wrists.
Kevin Smith movies depress me. I don't know why, because some scenes are genuinely funny. I think he just has such an ugly view of humanity that it leaks through. I always feel like my soul needs a shower after watching a Kevin Smith movie.
I once watched Jacob's Ladder while fighting a serious case of the flu while rather buzzed on cold medicine. It was a trippy experience to say the least.
And yeah, Requiem for a Dream is beyond depressing. Imagine rubbing salt in your left eye, a jalapeno in the right, then rinsing with lemon juice. That's like watching RfaD. It's not just depressing. It's emotionally painful.
My first example is Precious. Depressing & dismal. Nothing about a person "overcoming adversity;" that would possibly turn it toward "feel good." No, it's just so terribly depressing that as a viewer I could just slit my wrists.
Precious was hard to watch.
I wondered why a black director would make a movie like this.....if a white director had, people would be screaming racism.
Since then I came across this review which began with: "If Joseph Goebbels was alive today and wanted to make a propaganda film depicting blacks as untermenschen, how would he go about it?"
Where do you start? Pretty much any movie about the Vietnam War makes me feel like I've been banging my forehead with a 2x4 for two hours.
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