Yeah that makes logical sense that the lead character is in a state of shock and maybe the blurred background is him shutting out the horrors around him...but still I didn't care for it. Did you see The Grey Zone? I think Cricket gave it a I wouldn't go that high but I'd say it's a for me.
Films where there is no hope.
I don't think any film can top the hopelessness of Haneke's Funny Games (1997). I mean, come on, people. The movie was designed to mock the viewer's hope.
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I think Midnight Express is hopeful at the very end, what with the uniform thing, and the montage of the reunion. All before is pretty bleak but nevertheless compelling.
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Am I really the first one to mention either of these two films...?
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Most Biblical movies were long If I Recall.
seen A Clockwork Orange. In all honesty, the movie was weird and silly
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Almost forgot about this one. The absolute definition of "There is nothing out there except for that one thing, and you're not going to like it when it finally catches up with you."
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My theory is that family are cannibals. Think about it? they have enough kids to feed why would they spend so much time following a kid that isn't their own. After the cameras stop rolling they probably set a barbecue and he was the main course 😂
(Still, what you suggest isn't an unlikely outcome. haha)
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I don't think any film can top the hopelessness of Haneke's Funny Games (1997). I mean, come on, people. The movie was designed to mock the viewer's hope.
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The Road. Not only is there no hope, but in this dismal, blasted, polluted, ruined world, hope would seen delusional.
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Even still, the movie is entirely driven by hope, isn't it? That what compelled them to keep walking, it's what kept the boy wanting to see the good in people?
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Even still, the movie is entirely driven by hope, isn't it? That what compelled them to keep walking, it's what kept the boy wanting to see the good in people?
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To me, it didn't seem like a realistic hope, just the kind of thing you do to keep your kids going for the moment, a kind of desperation. Anybody who saw the world with an adult view knew that nothing would come back any time soon. For me, it was too close to a Holocaust movie to have any hope.
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have a sorta happy ending for the kid who joins a group of adults on the beach at the very end?
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Yeah, I got the impression that
I can give you at least 10 movies I find more depressing than The Road.
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there was a potential solution at the end which made the movie feel a little less bleak.
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It's been a long time since I watched The Road but didn't it...
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have a sorta happy ending for the kid who joins a group of adults on the beach at the very end?
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Yeah, but I think that just so you would end it all before you got to the parking lot. The idea of a saving remnant is an old one in many cultures (like Noah and the Ark, Deucalion and Pyrrha, other flood myths, etc), but it's a pretty darn slim hope.
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