Bojangles wrote:Stewball wrote:But what about Detachment is over the top?
I'm thinking mainly of the scene where she gets taken away from Adrien Brody's apartment. Reminiscent of Sean Penn in Mystic River.
The only thing worse than betrayal and abandonment, is leading up to it with bonding and caring for someone who's apparently experience neither of those--which raises the impact of the ending by a factor of a thousand.
Stewball wrote:I guess a lot of people would say "the ending", but without that, the whole thing was brutally pointless. I don't know about you, but I know some people just want their depression validated.
I appreciate that the movie expresses a deep melancholy. I don't know what you mean about validating depression though. I would love the movie even without the ending.
Many people believe deep down that life sucks. So portraying anything positive, especially a life-affirming denouement, is phony. Misery loves, nay demands, company.