I'm trying to think of bleak movies, and maybe I just like them. I found A Clockwork Orange very compelling, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a tragedy for me and one of my favourite movies.
Both may be dark and, yes, CT,HD is quite tragic, but visually both have a lot of color and light. CT,HD even offers a kind of transcendent beauty to it's viewers (very much in keeping with a proper tragedy now that I think about it). What I hated about TDK was that I found it so visually and thematically unrelenting in its bleakness. I just frankly didn't want to be in that universe, not even for 2 hours.
I guess that's what it comes down to for me. I prefer my movies to cater to my visual pleasure in some way.
And okay EEEP! I must go grade now. Really. Pulling myself away.
Ryan Reynolds was in Smokin' Aces.
Shoot 'Em Up had Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti.
Ah, it was Smokin' Aces I was thinking of.
Breaking the Waves is Bleaky McBleakerpants. Also the film 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days [link] It was brilliant and I am glad I saw it, but it explores violence against women, repressive regimes, personal isolation in a completely believable and heartbreaking way. Hard to watch and powerfully inspiring all at once.
I thought of a bleak movie and another movie-I-hate movie!
The Glass of House and Sand.
Fuck what a horrid movie.
The House of Sand and Fog?
looks at post
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
I blame the Advil Sinus. I'm very high.
But it was FABULOUSLY WONDERFULLY PERFECT IN ITS BLEAKNESS. And NOT ENTIRELY WITHOUT MOMENTS OF LIGHT.
Yeah, I loved Dark Knight.
The bleakest movie I ever saw was Blindness and that *was* too much.
Whoo, yeah. In no rush to see that again, ever.
It occurs to me that Pan's Labarynth was pretty bleak, and yet I loved it. Have I watched our copy of it since we bought it? Noooo, but I'm sure I will someday.
The Glass of House and Sand
I am trying not to cry laughing at my desk. I would love a synopsis of this movie.
