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Movies that make you feel empty inside


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.

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I agree with the OP.
this movie could have been so good but no it was so clichèd and cheesie at alot of moments and the acting is avarage. I've seen better performences by other actors who were alot younger and they act serious and wont make you feel bored all the time.

And yeah the only thing i see when i look at Emma Watson i see Emma Watson Not the Sam person i'd like to know. I didn't got connected to the characters because there is no emotion. It's just plain boring and the character are just sooo bored in this that i wanted to stop watching after an hour. But unfortunatly it was because it was a project of school so i they made me waste my time. :(

And as my opinion i think this could have been a masterpiece if the events happend what the character were talking about. But the only thing i could do was listening. And as for the last scene i wish Logan Lerman was cutting of his hand than i would have liked it but he didn't....
I Also would like to see how Sam got abused by her father's boss.
and how Patrick's boyfriend got beat up by his dad.

Then i would have liked it.
1/10

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I really enjoyed the film, and it made me feel quite sad by the end. My school years were lonely and I had no real friends (still don't), so it hit me quite hard.

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This definitely made me feel more empty, which I didn't think was possible considering my emotional state lately. Perks has been on my movie list for awhile and I just finally got around to watching it.
Like others have said, it makes me realize that I don't really have such memories of school. I was pretty much always a wallflower, never attended a school dance or a high school party. That doesn't mean I wasn't involved with things, I just never formed relationships like what Charlie had with Sam and Patrick. I had a few friends but it was kind of out of convenience since we didn't hang out outside of school. It was difficult come graduation, because once that was over I realized how alone I really was. I'm in my mid 20's now, as confused as ever about what to do with my life and still dealing with the social awkwardness that has plagued me and kept me from making/keeping relationships.

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I feel you, I cried.. god I feel miserable now :')

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I haven't seen the movie, but I read the book 2 weeks ago. I was depressed for 2 days after reading the book. I was exactly like Charlie in High School and still am now. Just a real shy bookworm.
Also, it reminded me of a gay friend I once had and we just went our separate ways, and all of my other close friends who just went our separate ways. All of whom I was real close to.
But these other movies make me feel empty inside:
Taxi Driver
May
Mystic River
Carrie (both the 70 and 2013 versions)
The Green Mile

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I think you should try "Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind" if you haven't. I'm not really a big fan of this movie although it's a good one, but my friend likes it a lot and you seem to have the same taste as her. Also Before Sunset trilogy is a good one. Oh I have a lot of movies to recommend, like Winter tale, Stuck in love, Begin again or even Lol too. If you haven't watched them of course XD

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It sounds like you had an artistic experience.

Action movies with lots of bombast and chaos are sensory stimulation that can excite the eyes and ears, but the purpose of art is to make you experience thoughts and emotions, to get you to engage with ideas and meaning, and to reach us that way movies usually require something relatable on a human level-- characterization and story that let us get beyond our own skin and feel something for someone else. They don't just show us images we've never seen before, they expand the part of our imagination that's vital for compassion and morality. And the more you open yourself to those experiences, the more of them you'll find... and I'd argue, the better a person you'll grow to be.


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