My favorite type of movie is a sad movie. I am not normally a sad, Debbie Downer. I am actually quite the opposite.
In college my roommates and I would watch sad movies and joke about popping in The Notebook, taking shots and crying. We even added eating fried chicken to the laundry list of things to do on a Saturday night to make it even more epic. Of course we were only joking⦠unless desperate times call for desperate measures.
Then and only then would that be appropriate. In all seriousness the thing I love most about sad movies is the way they make you feel so much. None of those feelings stick with you. The characters are relatable and the situations and feelings the characters go through seem all too familiar. I was watching a movie with someone once. I remember him jokingly saying that the movie was taking advantage of his emotions.
I think that is the best part of a movie. A good movie makes for an easy watch, but a great movie takes you on an emotional roller coaster that drops you off at the end with emotional heaviness that seems to linger for hours. I suppose I am into lists nowadays. Let me give you a list of my favorite sad movies I have watched thus far. All of these movies are hauntingly beautiful. It makes you realize that life is short. It pushes you to reevaluate and reflect. At work there was a patient who suddenly died without warning after what they thought was a successful recovery.
A death that was unforeseen, a surprise, is the worst. The family members teary eyed, cried out in grief. The wife had to wheeled away in a wheelchair too unstable from distress. That event left me shocked all day just as if I was watching a sad movie.
