Lost River (2015)
grasshopper rex 1 points 29 days 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.”

Jirido 1 points 28 days ago.

LOL. “Happiness is attainable for all and the quickest way to it is to buy the stuff we tell you that you need.”
True that. Please my child take the opportunity to run in to the cheerfull wall over here..
The sad is that the energy of the frustration and disappointment from the pain and confusion often is directed towards people that would otherwise be the ones to work and solidarize with in a work to actually being able to achieve what is needed to reach the eventually available abundance. Backstabbing and selling one and other cheaply a mile down the river, often only to shortly get a feeling of life value by attaching to some of these cheap dramas as the only perceived way to get to partake in the dream. From being European I can’t refrain from seeing it trough the lens of class and rot in class concience. I know that you in America see this like some communist view but I have hard to understand how interests would not clump in to class and to deny that view because of national economic reason and dreams of individually getting a head, would not hempen intelligence and further a loop of emotional consumption and escalating stupidity in a kind of Stockholm syndrome where in the end the losers fervently defend their slavery under silly dreams, drugs and psychopath “leaders” as being the highest form of freedom.( Hope as being one of the losers/emotional junkies, to not get muted for saying this :)