Why aren't there any good films about loneliness?

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CherHorowitz

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Posted: 7 years ago

#11

Originally posted by: --L--

punch drunk love
50 first dates
adam
ruby sparks
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
jeff who lives at home
our loser brother
dinner for shmucks
i love you man
hesher
dan in real life
seeking a friend for the end of the world
500 days of summer
Synecdoche, New York
1408
The Royal Tenenbaums/Rushmore/Bottle Rocket
Amore
400 Blows
The Wrestler
lost in translation
taxi driver
her

Alrighty, the list is long 😆

I have only seen a few on this list... I didn't realize 50 first dates, Eternal Sunshine, Royal Tenenbaums are about loneliness... Esp the first two movies I thought were about single people dating

It's been a long time, maybe I forgot the plot

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Posted: 7 years ago

#12

Not Bollywood.. But there is an amazing Marathi film called Killa. Do watch it!

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KheartS

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Posted: 7 years ago

#13

Yes

You are right

50 first dates isn't.

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YehKya?

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Posted: 7 years ago

#14

Neither is Dan In Real Life. He was a widower, but the movie was not about loneliness.

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KheartS

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Posted: 7 years ago

#15

Another recommendation around this subject

the wolfpack (crystal moselle, 2015)
pikuniku (or picnic) (shunji iwai, 1996)
3-iron (ki duk kim, 2004)
may (lucky mckee, 2002)
rosetta (dardenne brothers, 1999)
trust (hal hartley, 1990)
eraserhead (david lynch, 1977)
la notte (michelangelo antonioni, 1961)
animal love (ulrich seidl, 1996)
last days (gus van sant, 2005)
equuus (sidney lumet, 1977)
taxidermia (gyorgy palfi, 2006)
chronicle of a boy alone (leonardo favio, 1965)
wendy and lucy (kelly reichardt, 2008)
the driller killer (abel ferrara, 1979)
der fan (eckhart schmidt, 1982)
welcome to the dollhouse (todd solondz, 1995)

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return_to_hades

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Posted: 7 years ago

#16

Actually, Bollywood has made films a few decent films about loneliness. The Lunchbox and Aligarh are a couple people have named. Waiting also plays on loneliness when a loved one is ill. Astitva was about a lonely housewife having affairs. In general, Bollywood has tackled loneliness amidst widows, housewives, elderly folks etc as at least characters or subplots.

In commercial cinema "Dear Zindagi" is all about a young girls abandonment issues. Loneliness is not always literal. People can be lonely even when they have family and friends.

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222149

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Posted: 7 years ago

#17

I can list around 100 songs about loneliness 😆

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KheartS

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Posted: 7 years ago

#18

Originally posted by: MinzPie
I can list around 100 songs about loneliness 😆

List 10

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CherHorowitz

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Posted: 7 years ago

#19

Originally posted by: MinzPie
I can list around 100 songs about loneliness 😆

Not hard to find BW songs with the word Tanhai 😊

Just found out there's even a movie called "Tanhai" must be an obscure, low budget movie

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CherHorowitz

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Posted: 7 years ago

#20

About Schmidt (2002) - Not many people have heard about this movie

Jack Nicholson (Is there anything this guy couldn't play convincingly) plays a retiree who has lost his wife recently... He travels alone to attend his estranged daughter's wedding

It's a sad but not totally depressing movie about loneliness of older people, how they feel unwanted and unloved which is a universal theme

Kathy Bates tries to get into the hot tub naked with him 😆