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Bleak Movie Endings That Will Haunt You. Don’t we all just love Hollywood endings? The good guy beats the bad guy, a passionate kiss is had against the backdrop of a perfect sunset, the money shows up right before the deadline, and the store is saved from foreclosure. These are wonderful fantasies to help moviegoers escape their woes for a pleasant two hours, spreading good feelings of hope and triumph. Too bad that the movies below don’t exactly turn out that way! Sometimes, storytellers just can’t help torturing their characters into despair, insanity, and death, leaving the audience with dark contemplations instead of catharsis. But hey, that’s okay!

We all have regrets in life, if we live long enough. Mickey Rourke’s character in The Wrestler is full of them. A washed-up player in a low-rent circuit version of.

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Real life doesn’t always give us those Luke- blows- up- the- Death- Star moments – many of the greatest movies ever made don’t have satisfying endings. Still, there are some movies with endings so dismal, we might wish we never saw them in the first place. Here are 2. 0 Insanely Bleak Movie Endings That Will Haunt You For Life. Requiem for a Dream. Surprise – a Darren Aronofsky film based on a brutal Hubert Selby, Jr. Requiem for a Dream follows four people on a quest for their dreams: one woman wants to be on TV so bad, she gets hooked to “diet pills” that are actually amphetamines; another wants to start a design business, but she’s also hooked on drugs; and the two men in the films are trying to become big time street dealers.

The audience follows their many disappointing failures along the way, and guess what? Nobody gets what they want in the end. One guy ends up in jail, another loses his arm from shooting up too much, one gal feeds her habit by trading sex for heroin, and the pill popper gets electroshock therapy after falling into amphetamine psychosis. Oh, but she also dreams she wins a prize on her favorite TV show. So she’s got that going for her. At least until she wakes up. Brokeback Mountain.

Ah, forbidden love. When two cowboys in 1. And it does come.

Winning three Oscars, including for director Ang Lee and the screenplay, Brokeback Mountain follows 2. Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger – get married to women, have kids, stay macho, and keep up a romance that they can’t totally fulfill. All this ends up ruining their lives and the lives of everybody around them until one of them dies. And poor Ennis can’t even keep a promise of spreading his lover’s ashes on the eponymous mountain. The last shot is just him crying into an old bloody shirt his man kept from that magic night. The Wrestler. We all have regrets in life, if we live long enough. Mickey Rourke’s character in The Wrestler is full of them.

A washed- up player in a low- rent circuit version of the WWE, the eponymous wrestler is getting old, out of a job, and nobody in the world loves him, except for an ever- shrinking fanbase. Not only that, his body is starting to give out after all of the years of physical abuse, cheap sex, and insane drug use.

He’s reduced to taking a job at a deli counter and his daughter won’t talk to him. Little by little, things get better. He finds a woman who may actually care for him. A window opens for a better relationship with his kid.

And there’s a resurgence of interest in him as a pro wrestler. But as his body gives out, it ends up being too little, too late. The final scene sees Rourke jump into the ring one last time, fully understanding that his heart will give out on him. We don’t see it happen on screen, but it’s pretty obvious, he dies right there on the mat. Children of Men. The relentless Children of Men, starring Clive Owen, takes place in a dystopian future England, where everybody is sterile – meaning nobody can have a baby, and everybody is trying to kill everybody else. In the middle of it all, Owen’s character lays his life on the line to escort the last pregnant lady on earth to safety, away from some super evil people, and (presumably) to safety. Traversing intense and brilliantly choreographed scenes of mob attacks, daring escapes and all- out war, we get to see our hero succeed in delivering his charge to some good guys – we think.

We hope. The fact is, the purposefully foggy last scene leaves it unclear if the new Mother of All Humankind is in fact being delivered to well- meaning folks. Oh, and Clive caught a bullet in the last scene. He’s bleeding out in a dinky boat floating on a dark sea. Cheers, mate. 1. 6. Never Let Me Go. Why is it that alternative timeline dystopian love stories can’t ever pick up your mood? In this very strange tale of a world where people can live to be very old, a group of young friends slowly come to a horrible realization: they are actually clones who were grown in a lab for the sole purpose of providing organ donations to their “originals.”For a while, there’s a little bit of hope that proving they have souls through art will save the clones from their fate.

But that all turns out to be nothing more than an experiment. One thing’s for sure: the folks running this world are themselves soulless creeps. Never Let Me Go ends with our protagonists either being harvested on an operating table for their organs, or waiting in line to be. Life is Beautiful. Okay, the premise of this Oscar- winning film is really crazy.

Basically, Italian comedian Roberto Benigni is a Jewish dad in WWII Italy who tries to convince his son that their detention in a Nazi concentration camp is actually a huge game with a great big prize at the end. He sets up a system where good behavior and not complaining adds up to points and the winner gets a tank as a reward. Well, after several stunts engineered to maintain this illusion for his kid, Benigni’s character is executed by the Nazis just before the camp is liberated by the Allies. And when they good guys roll a tank in, the kid devastatingly yells “We won!”Life is Beautiful? More like Life is Bleak. I Saw the Devil. The worst monsters in the world might just be human. In this insane action- thriller by Korean director Kim Jee- won, a secret service agent’s fiancé is brutally murdered and cut to pieces.

And that’s just the first act. The rest of the movie has the agent obsessed with revenge, tracking down the maniac killer, and becoming more and more depraved himself as he goes along.

Besides hellish scenes of torture and death, we get to watch the agent lose his soul in slow- motion, becoming as much of a monster as the man he pursues. When he does catch up with him, he kills him in such a messed up way, that the act drives him completely out of his mind. The last scene sees the agent walking away from the crime scene, having forever lost his sanity, and likely drooling in a corner for years to come. The Deer Hunter. It’s never good when you’re watching a Vietnam movie. You just know something very, very awful is going to happen. At least, you figure, it’ll happen on the battlefield with honor.

Not this time. In The Deer Hunter, Robert De. Niro and Christopher Walken play two old buddies who find each other imprisoned in the same camp by the enemy, being tortured, of course.

In a crazy escape plan, the friends convince their captors to let them play a game of Russian Roulette with each other for their guards’ amusement. They survive the game, kill the enemy, and make it out of captivity. But years later, back home, the war has changed them both.

As they struggle with their trauma, Walken’s character goes nuts and starts playing Russian Roulette in illegal gambling clubs. De. Niro catches up to stop him – right when that one last fatal bullet finds its way into the chamber, and Walken’s head. There’s a funeral after. Movie over. Have a nice day. Ex Machina. For the record, any true sci- fi fan who hasn’t figured out by now that all robots, androids and Cylons should be treated very respectfully has failed in a major way.

Be nice to our electronic friends or they will put you in a world of hurt. In Ex Machina, a billionaire genius has built “the perfect woman” out in his very secluded, very high- tech, high- security lab.

The Trophy Woman of Ready Player One. Ready Player One, the best- selling ode to virtual reality and nerd- dom,is finally becoming a movie, but not everybody is a fan. The first teaser trailer has gotten some backlash for how it glorifies nostalgia. However, a bigger issue comes from the book itself in how it treats women—namely, its trophy love interest.

This is coming from someone who actually enjoyed the book, and has read it several times. But just because we like something doesn’t mean it’s impervious to criticism, just as we don’t have to hate something because it has problems. And Ready Player One certainly has problems. It positions heroine Art. In (virtual) reality, she’s little more than a prize to be won.

Ready Player One is about a teenager named Wade Watts, known in- game as Parzival, an Ultimate Fanboy who’s become obsessed with nostalgic pop culture of the 1. OASIS. His obsession leads him to become one of the top players in the contest, and he ultimately wins the whole thing.

Art. 3mis is introduced as another obsession of Wade’s. She’s a strong, smart, and high- level gamer who runs a popular blog and, later, clothing line for plus- sized avatars. He follows her on every social media account he can get his virtual hands on, going so far as to save all her avatar photos on his computer.

He even admits it during their first online chat, telling her: “I’ve had a crush on you since before we even met. From reading your blog and watching your POV. I’ve been cyber- stalking you for years.” In both virtual and real life, this is never cute or romantic. It’s a red flag. Wade’s internal monologue is full of leering comments about Art.

Big hazel eyes, rounded cheekbones, a pointy chin, and a perpetual smirk. I found her unbearably attractive.”) However, they’re usually followed by a declaration that the only reason he likes her is because she’s not like other girls. This type of narrative tries, and fails, to excuse the objectification, because it’s for a woman who doesn’t fit what the man believes is the status quo. Art. 3mis’s body was also somewhat unusual. In the OASIS, you usually saw one of two body shapes on female avatars: the absurdly thin yet wildly popular supermodel frame, or the top- heavy, wasp- waisted porn starlet physique (which looked even less natural in the OASIS than it did in the real world). But Art. 3mis’s frame was short and Rubenesque. All curves. Sure, he might praise her for being “different,” but it’s still objectification.

Just because she doesn’t look like a Barbie doll doesn’t mean he’s not treating her like one. Note: This is not the first time Cline has been accused of this particular problem.)Art. Wade’s search for the contest’s legendary Egg, with his attempt to begin a romantic relationship with her serving as a sort of side quest that distracts him from his primary one. The more time he spends with her, the less he spends on everything else. He ignores his best friend Aech.

He neglects the contest. Cline treats Art. Wade to beat, not the reasonable responses of an independent character. She’s basically an NPC. Watch La Peine Du Talion HD 1080P on this page.

During their many encounters, Art. When I wasn’t hanging out with my pseudo- girlfriend, I devoted the rest of my time to leveling up my Avatar.”) Any woman who’s been in that situation knows how that feels. It’s awful. Still, it takes her a long time to actually punish him for his actions. For a good portion of the book, she enables his bad behavior while making snide remarks about why she shouldn’t. The following conversation is immediately followed by a bunch of chats and dates.

Parzival: When can we chat again? Art. 3mis: After one of us finds the egg. Parzival: That could take years. Art. 3mis: So be it. Parzival: Can I at least keep e- mailing you? Art. 3mis: Not a good idea.

Parzival: You can’t stop me from e- mailing you. Art. 3mis: Actually, I can. I can block you on my contact list.

Parzival: You wouldn’t do that, though. Would you? Art. 3mis: Not if you don’t force me to. Eventually, after several weeks, she is forced to block him, but only after really dire circumstances. During a party, Wade confesses his love for her, telling her he’ll get on a plane that instant so he can meet her in person.

Art. 3mis becomes uncomfortable around him and decides to suspend their friendship so she can focus on the contest. I felt like I’d been punched in the throat. Are you breaking up with me?”“No, Z,” she said firmly.

I am not breaking up with you. That would be impossible, because we are not together.” There was suddenly venom in her voice. We’ve never even met!”It’s an acceptable response to a bad situation..

Wade doesn’t actually accept it. Instead, he stalks her for weeks, sending her hundreds of messages and literally dropping gifts like bombs over her home base. He even goes so far as to stand outside her door for hours, holding a boombox over his head playing “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel, like Say Anything. The book is clear in that his obsession is not Art. Wade’s treatment of Art. He was simply acting out of love. This is really alarming–not only because it romanticizes online stalking, but also because he still wins her in the end.

His behavior is ultimately rewarded, not punished. After saving the day and winning the contest, Wade finally logs off of the OASIS and finds Art. Adventure video game labyrinth. She becomes a literal prize for him to find.

And when he does find her, he fully discovers her big repulsive truth she’d alluded to earlier in the book (“Trust me. If I ever let you see me in person, you would be repulsed.”). She has a birthmark on her face.

In the end, her conflict with Wade isn’t from how he treated her in the past, but caused by her own insecurities. This gives Wade a chance to (again) play the hero, since he’s able to look past it and still find her attractive. He then pledges to “spend the rest of [his] life” with her, even though they’d just met.“I’m in love with you.”Her lower lip started to tremble. You’re sure about that?”“Yes. I am. Because it’s true…“Listen,” I said. We can take things as slow as you like. I’m a really nice guy, once you get to know me.

I swear.”She laughed and wiped away a few of her tears, but didn’t say anything. So, how does a strong and empowered woman become a silent, crying, and lovesick trophy at the end of the game? There are several reasons why. Conventional, male hero storytelling.

A need to satisfy an atypical power fantasy. But I think the main reason comes down to how the story is framed. Ready Player One suggests that nostalgia is universal, how similar interests can bring strangers together, but all of that nostalgia is filtered through a distinctly male lens— and not just because Cline insert a lot of his personal fandom into the story.

In the book’s world, OASIS co- creator James Halliday created the contest that the entire world is obsessed with, so everyone’s nostalgia is filtered directly through him. The only thing Anorak’s Almanac seemed to indicate was that a familiarity with Halliday’s various obsessions would be essential to finding the egg. This led to a global fascination with 1. This framing leaves little room for women to desire anything that doesn’t also reflect what men want. Just like the game, Art. Sailor Moon or Jem and the Holograms, but she sure as hell likes John Hughes).

If your entire world is centered around the obsessions of one man—first James Halliday, followed by his protégé Wade Watts—what purpose do you serve that doesn’t also serve his needs? It’s a failure of the story to give women true agency, and a failure of the writer to understand nostalgia that exists outside of his own sphere. We’ve only gotten a brief glimpse at Art. Artemis) in the upcoming film, played by Olivia Cooke.

Who knows, the film might do something different with her character, perhaps even give her a background that consists of more than a giant birthmark that makes her feel like shit.