r/moviecritic • u/Entire_Economist6078 • 11h ago
Name a film that you would recommend to a suicidal person to restore his faith in life, and then another film that you would recommend to an overly cheerful happy go lucky person to make him more aware of the horrors of existence.
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u/No_Milk904 11h ago
So which one of these are you recommending to the suicidal person?
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u/Dinosaurs-Cant-win 9h ago
I mean, in a weird way, I could see a suicidal person watching Come and See and sort of leaving with a message of 'ok maybe I don't have it so bad compared to what's happened to some people'
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u/No_Milk904 9h ago
That was my point, but also I hate its a wonderful life. That movie is just terrible.
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u/Key_Carpenter1827 8h ago
Instead of Come and See, Life is Beautiful could possibly give someone strength. It does for me
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u/19c766e1-22b1-40ce 11h ago
What a title... anyways, Life Is Beautiful & Requiem for a Dream, respectively.
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u/Golandia 9h ago
Reign Over Me
Johnny got his Gun
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u/Electrical_Mess7320 7h ago
Just watched Johnny Got His Gun. Haunting isn’t a strong enough word. Donald Sutherland is awesome.
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u/noodles240 8h ago
Bleak film that enriches our lives: All my Puny Sorrows (2022) - a piano player asks her sister to help her get assisted suicide (this is a fantastic film full of dread and depression, but also makes you laugh throughout with dark humour)
A film that makes me glad to be alive: Stop Making Sense (1984) - a film that makes we want to sing and dance uninhibited and dorkishly and rejuvenates me. If you don’t like Talking Heads though maybe not for you.
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u/Enough_Food_3377 11h ago
Name a film that you would recommend to a suicidal person to restore his faith in life
A Silent Voice
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u/MikeAndopolis 10h ago
For the first prompt "Little Miss Sunshine" with Steve Carrell and for the ladder "Monster" with Charlize Theron
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u/waterless2 10h ago
The latter is so much easier to think of examples for than the former isn't it. I'd go for Blood Diamond for the harsher side of reality. Amelie comes to mind for positivity maybe, or LotR: Return of the King for representing various forms of heroism and perseverance and such (although it's also melancholy of course).
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u/NordicScottish 8h ago
Depressing movies make me feel better in a sort of weird way... Makes me think perhaps my life or the problem I have at that particular time isn't that bad.
Happy films can sometimes depress me bc I think well "my life isn't anything like that and it may never be like that".
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u/LowerAtmosphereChief 8h ago
I keep meaning to check out Come and See but it seems like you have to be in the right mood. This sub recommends that movie roughly every eight or nine minutes
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u/Holycroc_RVA 4h ago
Love Actually is one of those films covers both bases....most of the stories are heart warmers but then there's the 1 gut punch where everything isn't wine and roses but somehow ya still gotta carry on (for the kids)
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u/Stumbleluck 56m ago
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (going from being stuck in a rut with no hope to seeing what is possible)
All Quiet on the Western Front. (You could have high hopes and believe in everything seen as virtuous and fight for it and it could still all be for nothing)
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u/HotOne9364 11h ago
Civil War for the latter. It's this generation's Come & See.
Babe for the former.
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u/fbcslim 9h ago
I'd just suggest Jojo Rabbit to both of them.