Raging Bull
I just watched the movie 'Raging Bull' with Adam and Kelly-- it is a good, well-directed, moving movie, but it is also an extremely depressing and distressing movie. The central theme of the movie is regret, which is an emotion I have always felt more powerfully than others. The climax of the movie is when the regret finally strikes. The protagonist goes crazy with regret, in a last raging-against-the-dying-of-the-light, last flicker of a spark of life scene in a jail cell. And then, his spark is extinguished. The movie ends with him dead inside, the champion finally beaten by life. It really hit me, hard.
At any rate, while I was sitting in the theatre, watching this beautiful piece of depression-inducing filmmaking, I was thinking to myself, "Why am I watching this?" I felt great before I went to see the movie, and after the movie I felt unmotivated, depressed and hopeless. The kicker is... I paid $7.50 to watch the movie! I paid someone money to make me feel awful is how I spent my Sunday evening. That makes absolutely no sense at all.
I can't think of any reason why I would want to deliberately make myself feel bad. I think I am going to avoid watching depressing movies-- what is the purpose? It is hard enough to go through life maintaining a motivated, happy, positive outlook without voluntarily subjecting yourself to artificial difficulties and obstacles. I would have been better off paying someone $7.50 to punch me in the face a couple of times.
At any rate, while I was sitting in the theatre, watching this beautiful piece of depression-inducing filmmaking, I was thinking to myself, "Why am I watching this?" I felt great before I went to see the movie, and after the movie I felt unmotivated, depressed and hopeless. The kicker is... I paid $7.50 to watch the movie! I paid someone money to make me feel awful is how I spent my Sunday evening. That makes absolutely no sense at all.
I can't think of any reason why I would want to deliberately make myself feel bad. I think I am going to avoid watching depressing movies-- what is the purpose? It is hard enough to go through life maintaining a motivated, happy, positive outlook without voluntarily subjecting yourself to artificial difficulties and obstacles. I would have been better off paying someone $7.50 to punch me in the face a couple of times.