Seven Very Depressing Movies Review by Teresita Blanco

Seven Very Depressing Movies Review by Teresita Blanco

A few years ago, I watched Pan's Labyrinth. It was directed by Guillermo del Toro. The movie takes place during the Spanish Civil war. During that time, the dictator Franco was trying to solidify his powers. The main character is a little girl, named Ofelia, whose mother married a Captain. Her name has great significant. She alludes to the ill fated nutcase of Hamlet. Like Shakespeare's Ophelia, Ofelia lives in her own little dreamworld to deal with the harsh reality.

Needless to say, her stepfather hates her guts. Like most captains of his day, he was a corrupt bastard. He once killed a teenager by smashing his face with a bottle. When he is not killing civilians or terrorizing Ofelia, he spends his time stocking the maid. The guy is a genuine machista prick.

Fantasy world wise, Ofelia was contacted by Pan. He tells her that she is really a fairy princess. She must undergo several tasks to recover her true fairy form. Each task is more gruesome than the last. To help her, Ofelia gets several fairy sidekicks.

Anyhow, the Pan demon is a personification of the horror of life. In order to reach paradise, we must prove ourselves in the world of the living. The movie is also about the loss of innocence. Ofelia's childhood ended when she met her stepfather. She created a fantasy world in a vague attempt to regain her childhood.

Aside from that, the movie is about reality and illusion. At the end of the film, you wonder if the girl's dream was true. Frankly, I found the movie really depressing. Then again, no movie that takes place during a Civil War has a happy ending. In any case, Pan's Labyrinth deserves 5 stars rating.

The next depressing movie to review is Big Fish. The movie is about a man who likes to tell odd stories. His son never knows if he is telling the truth. The movie takes place while the father is dying. Therefore, the movie has a gloom and doom feel about it. Regardless, the man's life was pretty interesting.

I could say a lot about the plot of the movie. However, I don't want to spoil it for those that have yet to see the film. Needless to say, the Big Fish man met a giant, a town of seers and some Siamese twins. What I found depressing about the movie was the ending. In any case, Big Fish deserves 5 stars rating.

The next movie worth reviewing is Edward Scissorhands. Johnny Depp acted as Edward. It was directed by the creepy Tim Burton.  Anyhow, Edward is a homunculus of a scientist. His creator died before he finished Edward's hands. One day, a saleswoman discovers Edward inside a mansion. She felt sorry for him and brought him home.

Because of his oddness, Edward has a hard time fitting in with regular humans. It is a lot worst due to the daughter of the saleswoman, Kim. Kim's lover hates Edward and makes it his ambition to cause him problems. The moral of the story is that society has not changed much. They still judge others' by their appearance, they are the first to believe the worst of one another. Lastly, the exception is still the exception. In any case, Edward Scissorhands deserves 5 stars rating.

The next depressing movie is sling blade. The movie is a about a crazy man, named Karl, that is sent back into the wild. When he was a young boy, he killed his mother and her lover with a sling blade. A sling blade is the blade piece of a lawnmower. For most of the movie, we are left with the expectation that he will do something crazy.

The movie shows you that even crazy people can be productive members of society. Throughout the film, we understand more of how he went insane. Needless to say, his parents were anything but good. They kept poor Karl hidden underground. They even made him throw into the garbage his own aborted baby brother.

The movie makes you question your own sanity. Behaviors that we consider normal are placed under a new light. In a strange way, we are all insane. Aside from the craziness, I thought it was cute the friendship that Karl made with a boy. They both had just about the same level of education.

Plus, Karl was seen as non threatening. For the boy, Karl was the ideal father, that would never hurt him. Plus, Karl came during a bad time. The boy's mother had to date this drunkard who kept threatening to kill them if the mom broke up with him. I think that is every worth mentioning about Sling Blade. Truly, it deserves 5 stars rating.

The next depressing movie worth reviewing is KPAX. The movie is about a man inside an insane asylum. The man claims that he is an alien on an observation mission.  At first, the psychologist thinks he is just another nutcase. However, as time passes, he starts believing that the crazy guy is truly an alien from KPAX.

Long story short, the so called alien, changed the lives of the people he met. The story of the host body is also pretty depressing. It is a pity when bad things happen to pretty good people. At the end of the movie, we wonder if the guy was truly an alien or not. Certainly, the ways he kept alluding the doctors was food for thought. In any case, the KPAX movie deserves 5 stars rating.

Powder is another depressing movie. It goes along the same line as Edward Scissorhand. The freak in this movie is a boy, nicknamed Powder. Jeremy has that offensive nickname because he is an albino. It would not be a big deal if he did not have telepathic powers. Anyhow, he spent most of his life at home. One day, a social worker brought him to the real word.

Like we all know, life as an orphans is a hard life. His first encounter with other kids was quite unsavory. Kids can be so cruel. The way that others treat powder makes one feel pretty depressed. In any case, the Powder movie deserves 5 stars rating. The final movie worth reviewing is Castaway. Nothing else needs to be said. We all know that it is a pretty depressing 5 stars worthy movie. Wilson!!