I'm sick of all of these movies that all pitch the same angle - someone is broken but they get better by the end of the movie, usually with the help of loving guidance. We all know this is a crock of shit, and the reality of life is that you stay stuck, mired in your difficulties and inadequacies until death. Compare two movies I watched recently:
Wreck it Ralph - the young girl is a "glitch" - replace that with whatever other buzzword, loser, failure, outcast, it all fits. During one scene in the movie, the normal girls bully her and tell her she'll never be one of them and she'll always be a glitch. Of course, right at that moment, Ralph comes to defend her, and eventually she becomes winner and queen and her liability of being a glitch turns out to be her greatest asset, blah blah blah, feel good fairytale crap full of pomp. Nonsense.
Compare this with cool hand luke - mainly just the end. He finds himself in a church and goes out on a limb to pray to god for help. He accuses god, rightly, of never giving him a fair hand. Then he looks up expectantly. What does he get? Nothing. He shakes his head and says "of course." I won't spoil the ending but suffice to say, things don't go his way and he doesn't get his good hand like in all these crappy, fake Disney movies. Harsh reality.
Please suggest to me some good movies that deal thoughtfully with the harsh reality of life. I'm not looking for movies that are excessive or smug, so no Wes Anderson please.
Wreck it Ralph - the young girl is a "glitch" - replace that with whatever other buzzword, loser, failure, outcast, it all fits. During one scene in the movie, the normal girls bully her and tell her she'll never be one of them and she'll always be a glitch. Of course, right at that moment, Ralph comes to defend her, and eventually she becomes winner and queen and her liability of being a glitch turns out to be her greatest asset, blah blah blah, feel good fairytale crap full of pomp. Nonsense.
Compare this with cool hand luke - mainly just the end. He finds himself in a church and goes out on a limb to pray to god for help. He accuses god, rightly, of never giving him a fair hand. Then he looks up expectantly. What does he get? Nothing. He shakes his head and says "of course." I won't spoil the ending but suffice to say, things don't go his way and he doesn't get his good hand like in all these crappy, fake Disney movies. Harsh reality.
Please suggest to me some good movies that deal thoughtfully with the harsh reality of life. I'm not looking for movies that are excessive or smug, so no Wes Anderson please.
