8 Eye-Opening Movies To Remind You That Your Life Isn't So Bad

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By: Drew Byrd-Smith Posted: September 4, 2008

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Most people endure their fair share of tough times – the poverty of college life, relationship problems, a bad car accident, a woeful flirtation with the crack pipe, or any other equally awful experience. But film is constantly there to remind us that there are others out there who are suffering exponentially more than we could ever hope to. Watching them overcome their challenges or ultimately be swallowed by them create two very different types of movies, but in the end, there’s a certain set of films that show us an exceptionally brutal set of circumstances.

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8 Eye-Opening Movies To Remind You That Your Life Isn't So Bad
 
Talking of inspirational movies , how about Rocky , Cast Away , Crash , Find Me Guilty , One Flew over The cuckoos nest , Reign Over Me , Rang de basanti and Munnabhai ?
 
A few more good titles to add:

1. Shawshank Redemption

2. The Green Mile

3. Clockwork Orange

4. Requiem for a Dream

5. The Good bad & The Ugly

6. It's a wonderful life (1946)

7. Forest Gump

8. Sea Biscuit

9. Notebook

10. Memento

11. The Departed
 
The movies which i find trully inspiring as well as beautifully directed are,
1. A beautiful mind.
2. Persuit of Happyness.
 
I don't really agree with that list :no: Seems to take a sadistic view. Haven't seen most of the movies in the list, but they all appear to be utterly depressing :(

When I read the title, I thought the 1st movie on the list should have been "Life is Beautiful".

Humans really are weird creatures. Why do we have this fascination for gore, carnage, depravity and suffering??
 
Those are down right depressing..
I prefer "life isnt so bad' approach to "your life isnt soo bad" approach..Wherein the first type includes movies that are inspirational..the second approach is just a way of making people believe into taking more shit that they dont deserve..
 
zhopudey said:
I don't really agree with that list :no: Seems to take a sadistic view. Haven't seen most of the movies in the list, but they all appear to be utterly depressing :(

When I read the title, I thought the 1st movie on the list should have been "Life is Beautiful".

Humans really are weird creatures. Why do we have this fascination for gore, carnage, depravity and suffering??
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me too. i expected Life is beautiful, but seems the author is some sadist or utterly depressed bird.
 
sarang said:
@47Shailesh: Is that some top 10 +1?
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Naah rey, was just think of good movie which I liked there are many to add, how can a number of 8 justify good movies.

Requiem for a Dream had a most saddest ending the list doesn't fits the title.

finding Neverland
Short Circuit (nice movie, the movie that inspired Wall-E)
Apocalypto
Das Boot

many more,
 
zhopudey said:
I don't really agree with that list :no: Seems to take a sadistic view. Haven't seen most of the movies in the list, but they all appear to be utterly depressing :(

When I read the title, I thought the 1st movie on the list should have been "Life is Beautiful".

Humans really are weird creatures. Why do we have this fascination for gore, carnage, depravity and suffering??
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The movies seem depressing because that's the point of the list.

Everyone in this thread including you completely missed the point of the list :\
It's NOT a list of feel-good movies or inspiring movies or whatever.
 
^^I was waiting for somebody to point out on this.

The highlight of this topic is to let all of us know that how worse one's life can be.

But film is constantly there to remind us that there are others out there who are suffering exponentially more than we could ever hope to.
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47Shailesh said:
Naah rey, was just think of good movie which I liked there are many to add, how can a number of 8 justify good movies.

Requiem for a Dream had a most saddest ending the list doesn't fits the title.

finding Neverland
Short Circuit (nice movie, the movie that inspired Wall-E)
Apocalypto
Das Boot

many more,
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short circuit... had seen that movie... amazing work... at that time.. remember watching it as a kid... with tears in my eyes, when he get distroyed (supposedly)...

adding more movies to the list..

before sunrise and before sunset....

will add more as i remember them.. currently having a short term memory loss..

regards
neo
 
Will people please stop posting their top-10 lists? :P
saumilsingh said:
The movies seem depressing because that's the point of the list.

Everyone in this thread including you completely missed the point of the list :\
It's NOT a list of feel-good movies or inspiring movies or whatever.
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alchemist said:
The highlight of this topic is to let all of us know that how worse one's life can be.
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That, is what I call a sadistic approach to life (ok now don't pull the dictionary out on me). The title says - Movies To Remind You That Your Life Isn't So Bad; which I automatically assumed would try to show that life is good, or at least better than you thought. Trying to achieve that by showing how fooked up someone else's life can be is not the right approach, imo.

And I never thought of "Life is Beautiful" as a feel-good movie. It does have tragic ending, but it tries to show us a positive outlook towards life.
 
^^Baah. Movies to remind that YOUR life isnt so bad, and how can one be reminded about it??By showing some depressing films watching which you would realise that your life isnt as bad as you think it is (i.e. if you compare your life with that of the character's lives in these films).
 
Again, If someone wants to tell me that my life isn't so bad, I would assume that it is in order to make me feel better. I fail to understand how this dismal list of movies is going to achieve that.
 
Girl:- Oh my god..My life is so good..I just got raped... lucky me..The other girl in the movie was killed after getting raped...
:@
 
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