“Feel Better” Movies — Evan Cogswell’s List
I initially planned to balance my selection among different types of films, but then I realized the films that really help me feel better in dark times are offbeat comedies and tragic cautionary tales.
Tag: Wes Anderson
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The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 2001) — Ten Years Later
I can't quite shake the feeling that the world view that permeates this film genre is that life is an inherently miserable, humiliating experience...that the only joy in it is the supremacy and uniqueness of your particular misery. It's like a proud despair, almost as if the heroic stoicism of the modernists has crumbled and shown beneath it a sickly, pallid, postmodern gilded stoicism that doesn't fool anyone, least of all the people wearing it.