Film & Loneliness-Great escapism from life

[LoneAs]

I love film, and they are a great way of escapism..so to help others find something to relate to (you may relate with certain characters in the film) and forget the world i will give you in my opinion some films to do with loneliness..

Any additions are welcome and encouraged! Remember film is what you make of it so there are no right or wrong answers..some people may not agree with some suggestions so bare with me.

If you want me to explain the variable themes of loneliness in each film, feel free to PM or start a discussion..

Films:

Taxi driver
Garage
One hour photo
Chungking express
How to be
Lost in translation
Wild Strawberries
Midnight Cowboy
The long day closes
Samson and Delilah
L'avventura (Great ending)
The Wrestler
Last Chance Harvey
Winters Light
The Silence

Sorry if this post is a repeat, if it is then i hope i've mentioned some films that you havent seen before, so you can give them a watch and draw your conclusions.

Thanks..

P.s

Can anybody suggest to me, some books or music (blues, vocal, jazz) exploring the themes of loneliness.

 

[softwarefreak]

Hey, intriguing list with some I definately have not seen as yet.
The only book I could suggest to yourself follows the theme of the forum: Party of One - The Loners' Manifesto, by Anneli Rufus.
I have only managed to read the foreword and intro on google books but it sounds as though she has "real" first hand experience.

Hope this is of use to you and please keep the film lists coming if you can, helps to break the day up!!!!

All the best

 

[rosebud]

Great list. All of my favourites are there. I can add Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" and Scorsese's "Bringing out the Dead".
There are a lot of great books about loneliness. Dostoevsky, Sartre, Kafka, Bukowski, Maugham, Hemingway wrote about loneliness. Especially Maugham and Sartre.

 

[Ak5]

This is one of the main reasons why I want to try and become an actor myself.

 

[Ian Haines]

I LIVE FOR MOVIES!

I am deathly serious!

- To me, the locations are places for me to be!
- To me, the characters are folk to get among, and spend time with!
- To me, the predicaments are challenges for me to deal with!

Those on the screen I consider to be my pseudofriends!

One movie, every night, or I'd not remain sane. I swear it.

Between VHS and DVD, I have about 650 titles. Everything from St Trinian's 1 and 2 (remakes), all the way to the darker side of movies, such as "Train", "Hostel" and "The Exorcist" (not that I usually have friends who can turn their heads around on their necks, a full 360 degrees - while not drunk!)

Movies are like visual poetry or visual prose, if you prefer...watch them and you're in company, elsewhere, at least doing something with those others involved. Along comes excitement, change of scenery, variation in life's timetables and offerings, and, of course, love of really great looking girls - what can I say?...I'm a rabidly heterosexual guy and they are a great added feature, in films, to me.

I still see a yellow guy using a big club to batter Hell out of another little yellow guy on the left, there...hasn't the little yellow victim's sentence run its time, yet?

 

[beans]

I love film, and they are a great way of escapism..so to help others find something to relate to (you may relate with certain characters in the film) and forget the world i will give you in my opinion some films to do with loneliness..

Any additions are welcome and encouraged! Remember film is what you make of it so there are no right or wrong answers..some people may not agree with some suggestions so bare with me.

If you want me to explain the variable themes of loneliness in each film, feel free to PM or start a discussion..

Films:

Taxi driver
Garage
One hour photo
Chungking express
How to be
Lost in translation
Wild Strawberries
Midnight Cowboy
The long day closes
Samson and Delilah
L'avventura (Great ending)
The Wrestler
Last Chance Harvey
Winters Light
The Silence

Sorry if this post is a repeat, if it is then i hope i've mentioned some films that you havent seen before, so you can give them a watch and draw your conclusions.

Thanks..

P.s

Can anybody suggest to me, some books or music (blues, vocal, jazz) exploring the themes of loneliness.

Hmm i have a friend like that. He's going through depression and watch movies all day and all night long. But the thing is, his life remain unchanged but he loves it because he can escape all the troubles in his life and forget about what really matters. Yes. What really matters.

 

[Ian Haines]

Wow! All day and all night! Nope...that's not healthy! It robs us of our firm footing in reality and removes us from the arena of interaction with people and situations outside the TV screen.

No...I couldn't do that. It's all I can do to watch more than one per day during the Yule, MidSummer and Hallowe'en special periods.

So, when I, myself, said that I live for movies, I was really referring to the intensity of how I feel about them, and about collecting them. I'd be very worried about a friend who spent such a long time watching movies...I really would. The same thing can be said of gaming, I suppose.

 

[Pheenix]

What matters more than our entertainment?

 

[beans]

What matters more than our entertainment?

Your life.

 

[Lonesome Crow]

Havnt been able to sit stilla. Get lost , absob into a movie, TV, net, music, vedio games, sex, drugs, gambling, whatever addictions..
I take one back...lose myself in sex and relationships all too much..

Got bills to paid, mouths to feed...
No rest for the wickage.lol

I have some matteres to attend to.
its complex, challenging with lots of twist turns. My ife is kind da off the wall with a crazy script..that I written or y defualt by others written. The biggest ROLE ILl play is in my own life. Its been totally insane. Fun, sad, happy, lonely.love, romance, hatred Sex. Drugs, music .danger,.violent, peace Excitment .borning . Death. Birth .and so much more.

Another chapter to be written or played out. ..
Yeah...its kind of like at the end of Ocean 12. When she got a bombshell
drop on her." waiting for this moment all my life" he said.

Plus my life is in 3D too

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Hell yeah man....it has awsome surround sounds too.

 

[IgnoredOne]

Havnt been able to sit stilla. Get lost , absob into a movie, TV, net, music, vedio games, sex, drugs, gambling, whatever addictions..
I take one back...lose myself in sex and relationships all too much..

Got bills to paid, mouths to feed...
No rest for the wickage.lol

I have some matteres to attend to.
its complex, challenging with lots of twist turns. My ife is kind da off the wall with a crazy script..that I written or y defualt by others written. The biggest ROLE ILl play is in my own life. Its been totally insane. Fun, sad, happy, lonely.love, romance, hatred Sex. Drugs, music .danger,.violent, peace Excitment .borning . Death. Birth .and so much more.

Another chapter to be written or played out. ..
Yeah...its kind of like at the end of Ocean 12. When she got a bombshell
drop on her." waiting for this moment all my life" he said.

Plus my life is in 3D too

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Hell yeah man....it has awsome surround sounds too.

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what

 

[Lonesome Crow]

K.... A Chapter not so long ago.hhahaa
Betrayal and a web of love and lies..

My ex-wf was having a long distannce affair with me. I dint give a **** cuz she cheated on me with her husband.
while she was married to me.lol
So we were .having one of those romantic talk. Next Thing I know
shes screaming at the top of her lungs. I thought something totally
went wrong...
She was like.".WHHHEEWWW...
excuse me homey".
I was like " WTF... thanks for informing me we were having phone sex"..

Thats hurralious **** dude...
Hollly scripts writter couldnt come up with that......

 

[IgnoredOne]

You know, you should keep a notebook, so you can keep your stories straight.

 

[Haz]

I find the right film is just what I need sometimes to overcome an emotional spell.

watched a couple of classic Jamaican films that struck a chord with me recently, The Harder They Come and Countryman. The latter was rather inspirational, for a somewhat mindless action film.

 

[Lonesome Crow]

U dont have to do that....
My EX-WF was a memeber of this forum. She used to come on here
and write openly about her delimma Of how she was in love with me and nevered stopped loving me...
Now...Thats funni **** dude. U keeping note.

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**** Karma dude....
Payback is a Bitch.

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Dude...theres an old game people play on this forum....Its call WAR.

Get a group of people or member together to **** wiht a member...

where the **** have u been?

what??
what??
whay??
lmao

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Plus some of the people on here have different account using different
names and crap..but its the same perosn...dont trip on that.

 

[Ian Haines]

Lonesome Crow...

I've read every word you typed and I still don't know what you've said.

You are to be commended, however, because you appear to be inventing new version of the English language, single-handedly. That's an amazing achievement and one that we should applaud, without reserve.

You could help us a lot, here. Slow your typing down and you'll discover your brain catching up with it. I mean that in the friendliest of manners.

You probably have an endless source of comforting and helpful wisdom within you, but we'll never actually feel the benefits of it because we're reading you with our old English minds, and don't understand the new version.

Can you help us in this?

 

[Twilight_Stoner]

Fight Club
Edward Scissorhands
American Beauty
The Breakfast Club
Heavenly Creatures
Cast Away
Magnolia

This thread is TOO FUNNY!

I'm smiling from ear to ear after reading all the above posts.

 

[Stride]

There's a great movie about loneliness called Happiness.

But uhh...if you decide to watch, I hope you don't have a weak stomach.

 

[Lonesome Crow]

Damn it....I was hoping I inherit
aonther breathing N living spell check.
to my zoo



.

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Window 7 or most lastest operating
system have auto spell check?

I have my cell set on auto words
and my auto words R waccked
Typing as best as I can using
my freaken thumb nails. ?

 

[IgnoredOne]

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