![]() ![]() A story of family with a decided lean into whimsy and fantasy, the movie is not in any particular depressing mode. It works pretty well.Īs far as I’m personally concerned, aging goth kid Tim Burton hasn’t made a film as strikingly original and multifaceted as 2003’s Big Fish. However, as it mangles the life of Kaufman with that of the author of the book he’s trying to adapt (Meryl Streep, still managing to stand out here), things get uncomfortable at best, and extraordinarily sad at worst. This loosely autobiographical film, which also features the bonus insanity of Nicolas Cage playing a version of Kaufman and his (fictional) twin brother, is pretty funny sometimes. All of his movies carry the proud torch of being some of the bleakest films ever created. Barring that, you’re just stressed out, and the world around you is in fact the part that’s getting stranger.Īdaptation is still probably the least depressing movie to feature a Charlie Kaufman screenplay (Synecdoche, New York). ![]() Life can get even more charming when it combines with the unstoppable feeling that you are also going completely insane. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) You probably don’t want to watch more than three of these in a row. Drama will be represented quite well here, but the idea also is to see just how many differing ways there are to watch a movie in which sadness is either the result, or something deeply ingrained in the DNA of what we’re watching. You can see that for yourself, as I take us through some of the saddest movies you can find on Prime Video. It is largely in the eye of the beholder. The point is that a sad movie is, up to a point, a subjective matter. This sadness can be cathartic, but it can also just as easily leave us in a state of casual-or-worse despair. Some will, but the concept of a sad movie is one that can be found in a variety of genres and types of films.Ĭomedy can be absolutely heartbreaking, under the right circumstances, or even ask a horror fan to list off some of the saddest moments from their favorite films. ![]() This doesn’t necessarily mean they’re going to be immersed fully in bleak stories, depressing characters, and hopeless endings. The saddest movies on Prime Video are some of the saddest films to be found anywhere. ![]()
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