Last night I saw the most depressing movie. About Schmidt. I mean really. If I knew my life would turn out anything like that, I would shoot myself right now. I think what makes it so depressing is that I think everyone (approaching that age) can relate to it at some level. Someday soon, the workforce won't need (or want) us anymore, our spouses will die, and our kid(s) will find us annoying. I hope I die before then.
Whats that movie about the rabbits that donnie darko so flippantly refuses to take seriously in donnie darko? I saw it ages ago and found it particularly disturbing.
Most depressing movie, eh? I'd have to go with with the "none of the above" option. A movie can make me laugh, but only a book can make me cry.
I have to second Requiem for a Dream. And another sad one was Titanic (I swear I didn't cry though!).
I'd say 'Random Hearts'. It was very depressing to think that I paid money for that. Or seeing jar jar binks for the first time. That was rather a depressing moment too.
'camille claudel' - film about Rodin, it was sad. Also 'immortal beloved' was kind of sad. Also, 'hilary and jackie' about that cellist. Oh, is this supposed to be the most depressing ever... couldn't say.
There was a film with Tim Roth once, where he gets shot by his druggie brother's girlfriend. That film was depressing. Nothing special, low production and everything, but the end effect of the whole thing was so profoundly depressing, so depressing I tell you, that I have actually remembered it.
There's one thing I particularly liked about this film: So Schindler goes out, looking for women who might have been the Immortal Beloved. And afer each scene of that, the 2nd mvt from the 5th Piano Concerto begins, but then fades out. But only at the last one, the mvt is played in full, going over into the jolly 3rd mvt in the final credits. I liked that -- this, yes, this was the right one, as only there the song could go on and be finished.
also, 'shine', and 'basquiat'. It is almost always the movies about artists that get me the most. It is just so hopeless, to position yourself for an attack on the unknown, i.e., mastery of art. And there is also an element of possession that screams of fate. The sappy ones - "steel magnolias", "fried green tomatoes", etc. - get to me too, but even as I react I can see them manipulating me, so it isn't quite as complete an experience. Also, this sounds weird, but 'chasing amy', because I had this crazy girlfriend, and was going through an awful experience, I had an emotional seizure.
The Elephant Man This movie makes me cry every time. <img src="http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/sad/cry.gif"> For me it is the most moving and saddest movie I have ever seen.<P>
