Some I've watched (many times), some I haven't...
- Girl, Interrupted
- Prozac Nation
- Reign Over Me
- 28 Days
- Walk the Line
- Basketball Diaries
- The Hours
- American Beauty
- Six Feet Under (TV)
- Sideways
- American Splendor
- Punch-Drunk Love
- Seven Pounds
- About a Boy
- Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas
- Van Gogh
- Chaos Theory
- Stay
- Crazy/Beautiful
- Sweet November
- Hope Floats
- Thirteen
- Borderline
- Donnie Darko
- Secretary
- Crash
- Running With Scissors
- 99 Francs
- Gia
... and some books...
- 12 mois sans intérêt
- Prozac Nation
- Bell Jar
- Cut
- Running With Scissors
- Lucky
- A Million Little Pieces
- Girl, Interrupted
- Dry: A Memoir
- Smashed
- Eat Pray Love
- The Heroin Diaries
I will add more as the ideas come!
13 comments:
Thanks for nothing. These are all about drugs, alcohol and the same old same old. Are there no legitimate depression stories out there? Just people being idiots and making poor choices?
Thanks for nothing? I found the list very helpful. Thank you to the original poster!
As for the retard who commented, hopefully you get hit by a bus :)
Hi, I've been looking for movies about depressions for days now!
I now wanna see all those film, and I too hope the idiot, who wrote the first comment, gets hit by a bus.
Even if the list really is movies about "drugs, alcohol and the same old same old", you could at least right it in a prettier way.
(I'm sorry if my English is not that good)
~ lykkeamuletten
A month later, a new visitor hopes that the idiot gets hit by bus!
I saw most of the movies and the list is very good!
BRAVO
How utterly immature of you all, hoping someone gets hit by a bus because their opinions do not match yours. Everyone is entitled to speak their mind, if you can't handle it do not have/partake in public blogs.
Movies about depression: response, lets hope someone gets killed. I would think being that this post is about a touchy subject, people wouldn't be so childish. Good movies, STUPID people.
I think those of you hoping poster #1 gets hit by a bus may have, at some point suffered from depression due to drugs & alcohol. So it just rubbed you the wrong way. Seriously, who wishes for someone to get hit by a bus for merely expressing their questionable, yet legitimate opinion. Tsk, so much hater in this world...
What I understand from poster #1's comment is, that not all people who are depressed - and for long periods of time - are depressed due to drugs, and it is somewhat upsetting that it is rarely fictionalized otherwise.
People are stupid on the internet, if they said I hope you get hit by a bus to someone's face they're gonna get slapped. Drop the hate.
Drugs and depression are closely related, whether you take the drugs because you're depressed in the first place, or you're depressed because you become addicted to something and it destroys your life.
to break away from the 'debate' re: poster #1's comment, i just wanna add these movies to the list... each of these pretty much attacks depression (and suicide) in different ways according to the respective central character/s' plight...
1. Sylvia (2003) - sylvia plath ('nuff said)
2. Mrs. Dalloway (1997) - based on virginia woolf's novel of the same title, about fitting in socially dictated roles
3. According to Greta (2009) - estranged mother-teenage daughter relationship
4. Prayers for Bobby (2009) - based on a true story about lgbt acceptance during 1970s
5. Noriko's Dinner Table (2005) - strained communication within family
6. Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - youth: success vs adulthood: failure
hope this helps. :)
Perhaps it was a little cruel to who ever wrote the first comment. Frankly if were all adding to the blog and therefore connected to depression in some way or another.
And so to pinpoint, feeling patronised or judges and defenceless just elevates the depression. I personally don't wish this person gets hit by a bus, because it's cruel.
Equally tho, thank you for the list of movies because the first person to comment clearly didn't watch all of them. I've written my own 200 page journal or what ever you want to call it after years of depression and I also talked about the film "Crash" which is soul touching how people behave differently around other people. How people are so uncontrollably influenced by their own circumstances hence creating even more circumstances which is ultimately our existence,
Depression is so little understood but I think I've understood enough about what creates it and brings it into our way of life. "PEOPLE" knowingly and unknowingly and the way to fight the depression is through "PEOPLE" a vicous yet sensitive cycle of humanity especially in the modern world,
I'm curious to know how many people would be interested in my 200 page unfinished journal or chaotic illustration of myself.
Hope you all are enjoying life for it's endless possibilities
I wouldn't mind reading that journal. I think it might be interesting. I know that for myself, I have seem most of the films listed, but I have been looking for A Last Cry For Help, which was a movie made for TV in the 80's about suicide. At the moment I am going through my 5th major Depression Episode, though I have only attempted suicide 3 times in the past, all during my teen years while I was enduring my 1st Episode 20 some years ago, I found that externalizing my issues by watching films about people going through similar emotions helped. Its funny but I would have thought that by now I would have overcome all of this but... Anyway I like the films that I have seen here and hope to see an updated list soon. BTW I also thought that telling someone to get hit by a bus was wrong. While everyone here may or not be adults, come on guys, we all have an idea of what is wrong and what is right. Use your head.
kinda suprised no one mentioned
little miss sunshine or its kind of a funny story.
they dont fully revolve around depression but it definitely plays a big role in both films
And in the end, you are all, still depressed.
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