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Is this the Saddest movie ever??? Or what

posted 14 years ago by RichN36
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Don't know what it is about this movie but I can't get through a viewing without being depressed the rest of the day and ending up with a Lump in my Throat at the end of the film.

Sure there are other movies that can bring out these same emotions. But this movie really brings me down to new lows.

That being said one of my top 50 films. Some times its good to be sad.

This sonic transducer is I suppose some kind of audio-vibratory-physio-molecular transport device

[–] Gblakelii 13 years ago

No, I don't think this is the saddest movie ever. Other films that "up" the sad factor include: The Little Match Girl(British, 1986); The Dog of Flanders(Japanese, 1997); Sundays and Cybele(French, 1962).

[–] tsalagicelt 12 years ago

Those aren't even in the running. Watch "All Mine To Give" (1957) to get an idea how unrelentingly grief-inducing a movie can actually be.

Now, back to the original question. This movie isn't sad at all. It shows that human death isn't the end of our life at all, merely the end of the suppressed sort of life that we live while we're here, in these fallen-flesh bodies on a fallen Earth, all tainted with the results of sin. Once a person is released from this flesh, the spirit is fully capable of living in an unencumbered fashion. In the film, Pud and his grandparents are still living life, indeed, more fully, on a better plane of existence. It's really only sad from the point of view of those left behind, who miss them and don't really believe that those loved-ones are truly still alive, and are much better off in their new situation.