Sunday, August 26, 2012

Top 5 Depressing movie endings

Depressing movies make you feel bad for the characters. We prefer to watch a happy ending, albeit a sad or depressing ending adds emotion to the movie experience. Why does the movie end that way? Despite bargaining with our conscious mind, we accept the movie must end that way.

Depressing movie endings put us moviegoers on the edge, and then throws us off the cliff. We reach the climax, fall downward, and thus reach the deep end. Depressing movie endings create an emotional reaction. The top 5 depressing movie endings feature sad endings. We want the characters to reach happiness. 

In the movie end, the protagonists meet their doom. The most depressing movie endings leave moviegoers without closure. The main protagonist fight up to the movie end. Their predetermined fate is depressing. 

Top 5 most depressing movie endings:
  1. Knowing
  2. Wrong Turn 4
  3. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
  4. The Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  5. The Green Mile (very sad)  

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