Lobo, have you seen The Sweet Hereafter? If not, you must.
Kids, when I saw it, would have given it a 4.75 out of 5. I'm really not averse to films dark in mood or appearance. Surely you, too, reach a saturation point at times regarding certain things, no? I was so avid a viewer of that genre of film that I one day felt the stuff effecting me negatively. It pooled into a black swamp in my innards. Like too many light hearted, sweet movies might start to rot your teeth after awhile. That is my only personal aversion to dark films. That doesn't blind me to their artistic value, though, whatever it may be. I'm not going to like a movie just because it's dark and filled with angst. That is not enough to make a movie great. Many people, in my opinion, equate ugliness and angst to art. It is a common error, in my opinion, to which I am not predisposed.
There has been this pop saturation of gratuitous bleakness, too, that I find unpleasant. An example would be Married with Children - a show I saw only a few times. In doses, it's good, removes the taboo of uttering the underbelly of existence so that it can't fester there, but how often do I want to be reminded of life's ugliness? This, I cannot embrace. Anyway, enough of that. Excuse my verbosity.
My morning rant - LOL!!!!!!!!! Ah, now, for coffee!
P.S. Felt I never made that clear regarding the genre way back when, hence, this tome! So sorry.
AI
