The beauty of it is that no triggers need to be avoided, as long as the movie is suitably escapist. :) The list of movies will include a short description of the triggers each movie contains, so that it can include things that are generally good but include one or two upsetting themes etc. Basically throw out whatever you've got. ;)
That sounds like a great idea. What sort of triggers do you mean? I also have a couple ideas but am not entirely sure it's what you're looking for. I probably have more ideas for books than for movies, but maybe that will work out, too?
At the moment the list of triggers is still in a bit of a state of flux, but includes stuff like death, self harm, abuse.. and so forth. But... you don't need to think up movies/books/music that doesn't include those things. For instance, one that's definitely going on the list is the movie Fly Away Home which has death triggers in it.
All I have to offer is that I think the movie Stardust makes me happier than any other non-cartoon/computer animated movie :D Fans of the original Neil Gaiman book often disagree with me, but it makes me laugh every time.
I read the book and it was kind of a disappointment for me because I kept comparing it to the movie and it had none of the humour, was "missing" (I know it came first) a lot of the events from the movie and was a lot darker. I think that's why fans of the book were disappointed too - it was more like "this is a movie loosely inspired by a book of the same name with a few similarly-named people in it" :\ If you can separate the two of them or if you already really like Neil Gaiman you might do better than I did.
I think any movie that's gentle and sweet should be good. Enchanted springs to mind as well as things like Finding Nemo, Ice Age and other animated movies mneant for kids that adults love. ;)
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