Depressing books/movies

Mrs Gil-Galad Took said:
One of the most beautiful and saddest movies ever is Pan's Labyrinth. At least it is in my opinion. This movie was so sad!
I hated it when Vidal killed this doctor and when the mother died. But the end was the most saddest of all. For those who haven't seen it, go watch it and keep your tissues with you. I highly recommend this movie
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Great movie.
 
dayhawk68 said:
dude where the red fern grows is so sad! I hated it! The dogs shouldn't have died!!!!!!!!!!!!


and you know what sometimes I hate walk to remember cuz they get married and then she dies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad::(
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I never thought of "Where the Red Fern Grows" as sad....But I don't like dog stories.

Phantom of the Opera made me cry, too. It was weird, becuase it had been a long time since a book had actually made me weep.

The first book I ever cried over was the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe...I was bout five at the time, and my Dad read it to me.

As depressing goes...there was this book called "Seductive Poison", which is the memories of a Jonestown survivor. I couldn't finish that one...it was to stressful.
 
Depressing Books:
Atonement - Ian McEwan (Based in WWII)
Number the Stars - Lois Lowry (a WWII story for young kids - made me cry three times in elementary school)
Night - Elie Wiesel (the author LIVED through a Concentration Camp!!!)

Depressing Movies:
Atonement (based on the book above)
Passchendaele (Canadian WWI movie...I was in hysterics I was crying so bad)
Titanic
Phantom of the Opera
Little Women (Only when Beth dies...and sort of when Jo doesnt marry Laurie :p)

If I think of anything more...which I am sure I will...I will post more :p
 
loverble said:
Sad as in crying: The Outsiders by S.E Hinton. Makes me cry every time. At sevral diffrent times in the book. But I love this book anyways.

Depressing: The Handmaids Tale by Margret Atwood. Never EVER read it. It is too horrible for words. Like 1984 it's a dystopian text. But it is the worst. Just... Urg...
A clockwork Orange is the same but not quite as bad. This is also incredibly confuseing...
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omgosh. The Outsiders... I cried at school reading that book. I'm forcing my little brother to read it now.

Stay Gold.
 
i would have to agree that catcher in the rye was a depressing book.

when i was younger i would cry when reading any book, i was a very sensitive little girl and i remember hitting my book if the bad guy did something to hurt the good guy. But as i got older and maturer i stopped, and the only books i remember recently reading and crying with

are the short story
" The scarlet Ibis" - read it in eight grade, and by the end my whole class was crying
and of course olive twist
 
What's depressing about "The Handmaid's Tale" is the fact that it WAS written. In Western civilization, however bitterly they deny it, women ALREADY ARE free and empowered, they ALREADY CAN live the way they choose, they ARE NOT being kept chained up in the kitchen, and they WILL NOT be so in the near future unless an outside force conquers their free civilization. "Handmaid's Tale" was written to stroke the self-pity of women who can never get enough of feeling sorry for themselves. It is a perfect example of what Mr. Lewis was getting at when he referred to people "rushing about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under."
 
I cried at the "Outsiders" too! It was so sad!!
I just remembered another movie that made me bawl hysterically - "The Pianist" (yet another WWII Movie concentrating on the way the Jewish people were treated...so so so so so so so sad - until the end)
 
The Spanish Inquisition said:
1. What is the most depressing book you've read.
2. Ever cried over a book?
3. What makes a book depressing for you?
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1.hmmmmm.......

2.Sometimes.I cried during one of Karen Kingsbury's books "A Thousand Tomorrows".:(

3.If my favorite character dies.:eek:
 
One of the saddest books I've ever read was The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter. I just couldn't get over the ending, it killed me. But the story was so good. I agree with those of you who said The Outsiders, too. Very sad.
But generally I don't cry over books. I need the music and the emotional impact coming from the spoken words to generally get me to cry.
 
"One of the most beautiful and saddest movies ever is Pan's Labyrinth. At least it is in my opinion. This movie was so sad!"

Mrs. Gil-Galad, I agree. It was an extremely emotional movie, but the ending, while shocking, was also bittersweet. Besides the final scene with Ofelia, the saddest scene for me was when Ofelia decided to eat some of the food off the table, awakening the monster whose eyes he carried in his hands. She came with three fairies and left with one.

I remember reading "The Outsiders" in Middle School (I think) and never really got that involved in it.

Another book I read that made an impact on me was "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel. I didn't cry, but it was a sad ending. The sequel, "The Pigman's Legacy" wasn't as good.

jose, for me "Number the Stars" was far from depressing. It was ultimately uplifting for me. I love the scene when the Nazis are knocking at the Johanson's door in the middle of the night looking for the Rosens. The father has to convince the guards that Ellen is not who they are looking for while Annmarie is forced to hide Ellen's Star of David necklace in her palm, casuing it to imprint the design into her skin.

One thing I noticed in a good number of the WWII books I have read. The names Anna, Ann, Hannah, and the various versions of those names crop up a lot, especially in main characters.

MrBob
 
The Spanish Inquisition said:
So the point of this thread:
1. What is the most depressing book you've read.
2. Ever cried over a book?
3. What makes a book depressing for you?
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1. 'Before I Die'. I forget who it was written by.

2. It takes a lot for me to cry over a book, and I mean a lot. I mean, I read the first book that made me cry just last summer :rolleyes: And that was 'Anita and Me'. It wasn't meant to be sad at all, but just the story- which is about an Indian girl living in Britain, who wants to do things other girls her age are doing, but whose parents want her to maintain Indian traditions- moved me greatly because it was kind of similar to my own life xD

For some reason, over the last few weeks, I've found the silliest little things in books moving and start crying over them :eek: I mean, I started crying numerous times when reading 'The Host' by Stephenie Meyer, for Pete's sake.

3. I don't know. It shouldn't be overly dramatic or in your face; all the books I've cried at convey some kind of emotion so subtly, that I don't know I've been moved by it until I feel the tears rolling down my face.

Oh my gosh, how depressing do I sound? xD
 
For some reason, Princey, what you posted reminds me of a contrast in the folk music styles of two nations: Ireland and Russia. Both Irish and Russian peasants have suffered similar kinds of calamity over their history, and both nationalities have their traditional songs about suffering and loss. But they approach the songwriting differently. Russian songs let absolutely everything hang out, sobbing and lamenting; whereas Irish songs, though addressing equally sad events, are comparatively restrained in displaying emotion about the sad events.
 
Mars:Is The Light In the Forest the same as the Disney movie?:eek: If,so I love that story!!!

MrBob said:
jose, for me "Number the Stars" was far from depressing. It was ultimately uplifting for me. I love the scene when the Nazis are knocking at the Johanson's door in the middle of the night looking for the Rosens. The father has to convince the guards that Ellen is not who they are looking for while Annmarie is forced to hide Ellen's Star of David necklace in her palm, casuing it to imprint the design into her skin.
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^That was a really good book.:)
 
Most depressing book would be...Atonement because I don't read much.:)
And I cried at that book too...but The notebook, rabbit proof fence and schindler's list...historical things makes me cry!:(
 
This isn't a movie or book, but the final episode of Blackadder goes Fourth was depressing.

Spolier warning:

Becuase eveyone dies. But not comedically. It was totally serious....they were all shot down by the enemy guns....:( It's a comedy show, about life in the Trenches in WW1, but it didn't make light of the situation. It was actually sort of moving, which I didn't see comming at all.
 
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