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Lost River (2015)

Jirido 3 points 4 months ago.

Life is terrible. Good also of course, but it only take one shit in the pot to ruin a big stew. I think on the purpose, effect and the eventually fear driven/neurotic enforcement/“habit”/mental need to end nearly every film/narrative in a ride into the sunshine even if it clearly isn’t a representation of life as it is. It can make it like a drug, an opium for the people, keep us from reacting to reality.. dampen us down to keep us take more shit than we should..
What I try to say is that the taxiride in the end was a kind of falsehood and that it eventually remove the true reaction to the terrible drama.. make it distant.. toothless. Like a safe peeping tom ride in to the dark. It is like film makers don’t trust their audience but need to file down the edge in the end to be sure to get good reviews from fearful critics to being able to sell. So in essence.. the economic system rob me from being truly touched and enraged by these same psychopaths. Protects them while portraying to touch and deal with it/them. Like it/the films becomes their perverted instrument to subdue me.. Sorry, I ramble. I guess that i don’t make much sense for most. But I feel a bit robbed as it is almost every story. Like it would be a conspiracy..

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grasshopper rex 1 points 4 months ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Most people want that, though. That’s one of the main reasons they have religions. Few can cope with the reality that life is chaotic and unpredictable and without reason. We’re brought up to believe that anything is possible, and our dreams can come true, even though that rarely actually happens. Thus, we have so many broken people in the world. Here in the US you see it in abundance. Reality doesn’t measure up to the happy crap we were fed on the TV. High rates for murder, mental illness, addiction. Despite all evidence to the contrary, people still want to believe the lies they grew up on. Hell, many have to or they couldn’t cope. Like Kinky Friedman said, “A happy childhood is poor preparation for life.” The ones that do have a happy childhood are all too often broken by reality when they get older. You even see it here on this site all the time. They like to watch the stuff they grew up on. To revisit the past, back before reality came crashing down around them. To relive those happy days of their youth. Most are so blinded by that vision of days gone by that they don’t even realize that most of that programming was drivel. Fear not, you are not alone. Not everyone buys into the happy, sappy programming we are fed a steady diet of. “Happiness is attainable for all and the quickest way to it is to buy the stuff we tell you that you need.”

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