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what's the last movie that made you cry?
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I can't watch comedies because they're founded so much on the audience laughing at the expense of the characters, who are often screw-ups. Before I got depressed I very easily empathized with fictional characters. Now, that combined with me being depressed, I see myself too much in these "loser" characters and it just gets to be too much for me - even if the characters are absurd. And then when the film still ends with some kind of victory for the main character, and the audience is given a false sense of "happily ever after" I get angrily sad because of its false depiction of reality.

I can sometimes watch MST3K'd or Rifftrax'd films, though (www.rifftrax.com) ... The last actual comedy film I managed to see and kind of enjoy was 'Hot Fuzz', but even in that film, which was fairly far removed from reality, to make an understatement, there were the personal problems of the main characters, which made for some downer moments.

But as for films that actually went for being melancholic, the last to that got to me were 'The Hours' (I love Philip Glass music, too) and 'Stranger than Fiction' (well, it was part comedy, but it was pretty sad as well)... the latter made me want to have a poetic death...
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Re: what's the last movie that made you cry? - by richardregius - 09-27-2009, 08:07 PM
Re: what's the last movie that made you cry? - by richardregius - 09-27-2009, 10:39 PM
Re: what's the last movie that made you cry? - by Boolse - 09-28-2009, 01:16 PM
Re: what's the last movie that made you cry? - by richardregius - 09-28-2009, 04:12 PM
Re: what's the last movie that made you cry? - by abrokenangel - 06-16-2009, 09:31 AM

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