it's still so early on a summer morning and yet i am up... call time for the college graduation is at 6am later. so that means i have to go in a few minutes time... i'm stationed backstage and basically is in charge of making pa-cute sa mga performers and also telling them to hurry up if we're behind schedule. well anyway....
in my HUmanidades class yesterday, our prof touched on a novel (Crime and Punishment) which had a very sad ending... and i thought of sad movies... how movies in general veer away from sad endings... why? because generally movies are there to entertain people. they may present some facets of our lives but it is not their purpose to tell us straight away that life is full of sorrow and misery. i mean me for example, even by watching melodramatic films make me feel sad and depressed at times not just for the character(s) in the movie but more so for myself - my experiences... most of us go to the movies, munch popcorns to bond with our families and friends and relax and be entertained. we don't see a movie because i am happy right now and i want to be reminded that this is not always the case.
however, if you think about it even with all the suffering and pain all around us always we tend to forget. we tend to be insensitive and indifferent to the plight of others. and we are just naturally selfish and self-centered to say that i've got enough problems of my own to even bother about others' problems. sometimes, it is in this regard that a melancholic, reality-based (not commercially "manufactured" for oftentimes they are so toned down and off from reality) movie or documentary is indeed called for.
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