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Movies that make you feel empty inside

posted 12 years ago by ssk2600
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After watching this movie (which I really enjoyed), I just sat there looking at nothing for ten minutes. Now, half an hour later, I've still got a lump in my throat. This movie really got to me.

I'm a guy in the 20's and I like.. you know.. Guy movies. I love Django Unchained (and everything other Tarantino), Sin City and stuff like that.

However, I also really like movies like this. I don't cry during or after movies though, but sometimes, like now, I watch a movie that just makes me want to (hence the before mentioned lump).

I think it has something to do with me really enjoying the movie while it lasts, and then, when it's done, I'm a little sad that (in this case) Charlie is just Logan Lerman and Sam is just Emma Watson once again.
I don't know them anymore. I get back to reality. And it makes me feel kind of empty inside.

This of course means that the characters in the movie have grown on me, and I bet I'm not the only one who feels like this once in a while. So therefore I'm asking you guys to share with me some of the movies that have made you feel this way.
Amélie springs to my mind as another example.

[–] MeIrakli 12 years ago

It makes me feel inside, because it reminds me that I do not have any of such memories, yeah, it kinda makes me feel bad about my school years, which was just one year ago

[–] knighttrider 12 years ago

I am glad to have read this board. I was thinking the way I feel I was alone.

I was so abused growing up, my private life taken from me. Massive bullying at school and home. I wanted to run away but got caught each time.
Had the wrong group of friends.
But after seeing Charlie get help, I still think I can as well. I still have faith and hope. But it is less and sometime more than before cause of Perks.

Well not sure what else to say here.

[–] MeIrakli 11 years ago

You go buddy!

Channel positive energy in yourself and it will attract good people around you.

Good luck!

[–] hikareteku 9 years ago

I am glad to have read this board. I was thinking the way I feel I was alone.

I was so abused growing up, my private life taken from me. Massive bullying at school and home. I wanted to run away but got caught each time.
Had the wrong group of friends.
But after seeing Charlie get help, I still think I can as well. I still have faith and hope. But it is less and sometime more than before cause of Perks.

Well not sure what else to say here.

So sorry to hear that! I was not in a certain degree as you but all I can say to you is do not give up! Life is the best thing you have right now

[–] AmrMedhat 11 years ago

I just finished my school years and I have absolutely no memories.. and I just watched this movie and I feel sorry for my life.

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[–] luxerus 11 years ago

Same here.

[–] vivek-rnv-11 8 years ago

Me too. :(

[–] Ghunz 12 years ago

Dude, I've just finished watching the movie and gone through the same exact thing.
Especially the sitting looking at nothing thing, only I've done it for almost half an hour!

Gonna hang around waiting for peoples' suggestions.

[–] everdeengirl 12 years ago

Same; can't figure out why but all I've been able to think about for the last 2 days was charlie. This movie was definitely moving in a strange beautiful way.

[–] rek16803 12 years ago

I had the same feeling as you did. The last time i had that feeling after watching a movie was 27 years ago after seeing " stand By Me" in in theater. I still get that feeling after watching it again every few years, but since a good friend of mine died a few months after we watched it in the theaters back then, it even hits harder especially the final scenes when Chris dies.

[–] cj1117 12 years ago

I felt what you felt, except I'm less manly and did indeed cry. When I was done it, I watched the commentary and all the extra features just to stay in their world a little longer. I had originally rented it, but bought both the bluray and the book a few days later. I have been following this board ever since.

[–] Nguyenning 12 years ago

I enjoy movies like this as well.

I think you may like Adventureland... (put your opinions of Kristen Stewart aside)
Also maybe Youth In Revolt
Garden State

Not really sure how to explain these movies, but I guess they're movies everyone can relate to. Even if you may not have gone through such dark events in your life (ie-friend's suicide), you can still relate to most of everything else these characters go through in high school/growing up.

[–] cj1117 12 years ago

I really loved Garden State, but I pretty much loved anything with Natalie in it. I'm ok with Kristen Stewart but Adventureland didn't really leave a lasting impression on me. youth in Revolt I will have to make a point of seeing.

[–] jaredpenner 11 years ago

I'd add it's kind of a funny story, and Rushmore to that list

[–] ispamforfood 12 years ago

2 movies that immediately come to mind to me are Super 8 and Let Me In... One deals with loss (S8), and the other with bullying... I was bullied relentlessly at all sides during my childhood and adolescence... And as such, I still feel a sense of loss for who I was... I'm still trying to find that little guy inside of me that I buried a long time ago... The one who wasn't cynical, depressed, angry, or afraid to get close to people... Overcoming abuse, bullying, loss, it's all very difficult and painful, and given that I've been through all that, I definitely find myself "IN" characters like Charlie, Joe (S8), and Owen (LMI).... And it definitely feels weird when the movie's over... Maybe more so because, while I identify with the characters, I still have issues that are unresolved... The movies speak to me, letting me know that there are others feeling the same pain as me, but I still feel the key to my overcoming my past remains elusive. Maybe some day that will change. *Shrugs*

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[–] rayner-539-3143 12 years ago

I know exactly what you mean.

But this movie did not give me this feeling neither made me want to cry.

Don't get me wrong I loved this movie!

I honestly felt fulfilled after watching it! It felt finished it felt good.

[–] NikoBerry 12 years ago

I had that exact same feeling but you put it into words way better than i do! I couldn't stop thinking about what happened to the characters after the movie, like they were real people.

I got the same with Amelie, Untouchable, American Beauty, Leon, Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Yeah, I know right?)and Lord of the Rings. There's probably way more but I can't remember them as I write.

[–] communityreality 11 years ago

i'm the same as a few people in here, the movie got to me too.

for me i guess altho i don't want to have been molested as a kid, the story itself makes you kinda wish this was your memory of your younger life, which is a powerful emotion to feel after a/any movie.

[–] dazz7887 11 years ago

I agree that this movie makes you wish you had memories like this, (the good ones and even some of the bad ones). Maybe that's where that feeling comes from. Like someone said, this is a movie that makes you want to stay in its world with its characters, and I think maybe that comes from feeling that your life wasn't/isn't interesting "enough".

But what people have to remember is that it's just a movie (of course), but what I mean is: that's exactly why the characters are so interesting. Movies focus on people who are the opposite of normal, who have unique lives and experiences. That's why a few people say films like this are not realistic. What they don't realize is that if a movie followed truly normal people, it would be boring as hell. Why? Because most of our lives are boring as hell.

I know that's not a particularly uplifting message, but people shouldn't compare their lives with movie characters. Most people relate to this movie because they have experienced one or two of the same experiences as the characters, but no one has experienced all of them.

I think that feeling of numbness after the movie, and not knowing what to do except to just sit there, is because (unlike a lot of cheesy movies) this movie doesn't wrap everything up in a happy and satisfying way. It leaves the ending wide open, so we don't get a sense of closure and can't easily walk away thinking "OK, that's done, it's over now". Which is a sign of a good movie of course.

[–] Simpson_Mulder_Bauer 12 years ago

Garden State