My 'this film was depressing cause I wanted a happy ending' rant
August 16th 2008 02:38
"I heard it was depressing"
Hello all, its me, the phantom reviewer, the guy that never posts, back to rant and possibly make promises he can't keep that he will do more posts. I'll certainly try.......starting........NOW!
They say that the number one fear in people is public speaking, well personally my number fear is being in great physical pain but apparently giving a speech is worse.....anyway....I could be wrong.....
Let me celebrate my new found c...c....c...comitment to you all (see I cant even spell it correctly) with a good old fashion rant.
Douglas Sirk once said that if people have no imagination they should stay out of the cinema, well now we have a worse phenomenon - people who have no feeling. People who are unaware of the fact that not all films can be as cool and detached as some over rated Tarantino film (flame away hose) that everyone thinks is a cutting edge masterpiece because they won't watch a film made before 1980 because it's 'outdated', as if people before then were somehow not the complex individuals that they are now. I'm sorry that the one old film you ever did actually watch happened to suck and you blamed it on being out of date. Well I have news for you, films, great films were designed to make us FEEL things, there's a novel thought. Heaven forbid a film should actually be confronting in some way or even worse study good old fashioned human behaviour - Oh no, we wouldn’t want to watch that, that would make for a BORING film.
Unfortunately we live in a world where most people have the emotional maturity of a twelve year old and not every film we see can be about someone getting laid or stoned (of course, films like that have their place as well from time to time if they're actually half decent) but if you have no desire to experience something that might actually make you feel something which connects with your own life - THEN STOP WATCHING MOVIES!!
NOW - I want to make myself absolutely clear about where I stand on this matter before my fellow movie geeks hurl shrapnel at me. I am not talking about movies like 'Dancer in the dark' which can certainly take their toll on the viewer, I'm talking about the kind of insensitive, narrow minded people who won't accept the fact that life is not one big Adam Sandler film and claim that uplifting, elating films like 'One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest' are depressing because it takes place in a sanatorium, these are the same individuals who find 'black and white' depressing, and don't even get me started on that phenomenon.
Okay, maybe I cant accept other peoples opinions, we all have our flaws but people are getting more stupid, audiences are devolving and its very obvious to me that hordes of 'Big Brother watching individuals who sit on their fat asses, drinking beer with their fat little kids, eating Burger King and occasionally punching their wife in the face' average Joe’s can no longer sit through a good old fashioned story. People seem to be in a state of denial about creating and recieving art which does truly leave a record of how it was for us in our lives.
In a nutshell - I see beauty in touches of human sadness. It should not be denied so much by audiences as it will be the key to us living richer lives where we understand ourselves more.
Any thoughts? Let the great Screen Adventure debate begin!
Coming soon - regular reviews!
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Comment by JohnDoe
Film & TV on DVD
Funny post man and of course I agree. Universally proven by the fact that Titanic is the top grossing film of all time...a depresssing ending embraced because it held no surprises.