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A movie about depression written and directed by a man who suffers from clinical depression.
A huge rogue planet named Melancholia (depression) collides with planet earth leaving nothing behind but dust and rubble.
A two part movie about a woman, played by Kirsten Dunst, who is afflicted with severe depression. The first part, when conditions are fairly normal, she appears to be mentally ill. The second part, when the end of the world is imminent, and things become extremely stressful, her behavior changes and she copes with the situation better than the “normal” people.
In real life, similar things have happened. Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition suffered from severe depression for most of his life. However, during the harrowing and stressful expedition, he changed and performed extremely well. When the expedition ended and he returned to routine life, he eventually committed suicide.
I read somewhere that people with a somewhat more pessimistic view of the world than the “normal” person are reading events and patterns more realistically.
I agree. Notice that I said “somewhat”, not the Debbie Downer type who thinks everything is bad.
COVID probably whipped rose-tinted glasses off of some people...for a short time.
1. Testament (the one starring Jane Alexander from the 1980s) - It's about a small California suburban town where the people die off gradually from nuclear fallout. The actual attack is not shown on camera. Kevin Costner has a small role as does William Devane and Rebecca DeMornay. Lukas Haas, as a small child, steals the movie. Kids die a slow death. Most depressing movie I ever saw and also one of the best.
2. Fail Safe (early 1960s) - The original one with Henry Fonda as The President. The US accidently bombs Russia and to avoid nuclear war, the President shockingly decides to bomb NYC, where his wife is visiting. That's how it ends. I saw it in the movie theater as a kid and I still haven't gotten over it.
3. Gallipoli (early 1980s) - An early Mel Gibson Australian movie about the friendship of two runners during a time of war with a spectacularly frustrating and depressing ending foreshadowed by the depressing but beautiful Adagio in G Minor which always signals to me, a lot of death is coming.
4. The Boy in The Striped Pajamas - You dread how it's going to end. That doesn't make it any less depressing.
The Grey (2011) The Wind Rises (2013) Seven Pounds (2008)
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