The most depressing movies you've seen

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16 Apr 2008, 8:08 pm

I have seen some pretty dark movies, but IMO none of the can touch the ovarian cancer mock-u-mentary WIT with Emma Thompson. Technically the movie was brilliant, but it's the kind of film that will make you want to slash your wrists or overdose on pills or something. This movie is majorly, majorly FU.

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16 Apr 2008, 8:13 pm

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BTW, do you know who the famous beer-commercial girl was who found out she had some widespread slow moving cancer and made an autobiographical film about it and the friends she made? I remember watching that when I was out on a job at the hotel and it was funny - you really saw her try everything, fall for every gimmick, it was sad, but at the same time I guess anytime you have any sort of struggle in life you can kind of relate.

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17 Apr 2008, 4:56 am

Before The Devil Knows You're Dead.

Seriously miserable.

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17 Apr 2008, 2:11 pm

Brokeback Mountain

I felt really bad for those guys.

Also King Kong.

Poor poor King Kong... :cry:

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21 Apr 2008, 8:31 pm

The Constant Gardener
Schindler's List
21 Grams
The Thin Red Line
Chinatown
The Mist
Requiem for a Dream
The Seventh Seal
The Conversation
Downfall
Wild Strawberries
Raging Bull
Eraserhead
Children of Men
A History of Violence
The Killing Fields
Cache
United 93
Army of Shadows

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21 Apr 2008, 11:11 pm

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the most depressing movie I've seen recently is Willard. This guy gets totally put down and crapped on by everybody. has people controlling every aspect of his life and he finally goes nuts and snaps. and uses his only friends, rats as his way to get revenge. but due to his deeply flawed character he manages to alienate himself even from his rat friends and goes to a war that he looses with them. in the end he looses everything and will spend the rest of his life locked up in a mental hospital.

Some of the freethinkers and diehard rebels on this board could learn a thing or two here. This movie illustrates why alienating everybody around you isn't good.

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22 Apr 2008, 12:15 am

Grave of the Fireflies

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22 Apr 2008, 9:19 am

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Grave of the Fireflies

I really want to see that. Is it good?

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And if I can venture to add a book to a movie thread, I must say that the most depressing work I have ever experienced was definately 1984.

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22 Apr 2008, 10:59 am

Viola wrote:

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And if I can venture to add a book to a movie thread, I must say that the most depressing work I have ever experienced was definately 1984.

The movie version of "1984" was pretty depressing too. But Amadeus? I thought it was one of the funniest movies I've seen. Sure, he died in the end, but who doesn't? And I could identify with Salieri too, because I know I'm no genius. (I particularly liked the scene at the beginning where he played several of his perfectly workmanlike melodies, unrecognizable to the priest and the audience alike, and then one of Mozart's. Nothing could have demonstrated the difference between a middling talent and a genius better.)

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23 Apr 2008, 2:29 pm

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind - wonderful but depressing

big fish - not really depressing per se, but makes me cry everytime

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23 Apr 2008, 6:29 pm

The ending 2 Bridge to Teribethia

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25 Apr 2008, 11:41 pm

Sometimes a sad movie can be cathartic--a depressing one just leaves you flat.

If you want to feel empty and futile, try looking into the French new wave. [existential shudder]

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