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Originally posted by prokrast:
Fallen
The Bicycle Thief (this is up there for most depressing)
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Which one do you mean? The one about the girls from 1988? That was certainly extremely depressing, but one of the most depressing I have seen is Requiem For A Dream, and although I haven't seen The House Of Sand And Fog, I've heard that it is very sad. A Beautiful Mind also kind of made me sad. What the last three have in common is Jennifer Connelly, who seems to have a penchant and a talent for playing the helpless, wide eyed innocent victim in all three movies, as well as in The Hot Spot. She seems to be able to produce those tears at a moments notice, as she did in The Hulk as well.
The original Brazil was also kind of depressing, but the sheer insanity of the film and the fact that Terry Gillam made it, made it also sort of hilarious.
The first Alien movie and especially the third were also depressing in their own kind of way.
Probably the most depressing I can think of is 1984, although Requiem For A Dream comes close, in that I lived in a house full of junkies in the early 90's and their lives took some very similar paths to death and destruction that those in the movie did.
A film that brought me to tears was A World Apart, a drama based on the early life of Ruth First, a South African anti-Apartheid activist, whose young life was shattered by the trauma that was South Africa. The film has a terribly sad ending, and the worst part of all is that in reality, Ruth First, who went on to marry the leader of the South African Communist Party, Joe Slovo, and who fled the country and lived in exile in Mo�ambique, was murdered by the South African secret police with a letter bomb shortly before South Africa underwent its transformation to democracy.
