IreneF
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Americans always want the happy ending. Thankfully it sounds like this movie has a realistic ending.The film is also not vested in an upbeat ending. Rather, it powerfully insists on giving a voice to victims whose greatest challenge, apart from their symptoms, is surmounting a world of indifference.
Americans always want the happy ending. Thankfully it sounds like this movie has a realistic ending.
There was something in the news recently about Americans rewriting history on several occasions for movies that have been done over the years. They claimed that Americans want the happy ending and the United States being the victor regardless of what the reality actually was.Just Americans?
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There is an opportunity for a message there ... we can invite everyone who wants a happy ending to do something positive for ME and CFS biomedical research, and to support any moves made by patient groups toward Congressional and other actions.Americans always want the happy ending.
Ummm, no.Just Americans?
Ummm, no.
Americans always want the happy ending. Thankfully it sounds like this movie has a realistic ending.
Rather, it powerfully insists on giving a voice to victims whose greatest challenge, apart from their symptoms, is surmounting a world of indifference.
Read an interesting article about the ending. Jen Brea had won a scholarship or something like that in a think tank for filmmakers and said they tried a lot of subtly different endings for Unrest. The first ending was too dark. And the second one too positive, so they spent a lot of time tweaking it (with e.g. music, last words). Jen said something about how the ending is very important. They didn't want people to completely despair, but to come out of the cinema with anger, but also with hope and the will to change things and to advocate. (This is very free from my bad memory.)Thankfully it sounds like this movie has a realistic ending.
Many need life to be upbeat, but many are dissatisfied too. The entertainment reflects that, gives us a window to a better life, even if only for an hour or two. Tragedies do have a long tradition in entertainment, but comedies are about laughter, and dramas are about a series of adverse events and then the good people win. Soaps are an unending series of tragedy followed by triumph.So many people want both fiction and life to be uplifting.
Many need life to be upbeat, but many are dissatisfied too. The entertainment reflects that, gives us a window to a better life, even if only for an hour or two. Tragedies do have a long tradition in entertainment, but comedies are about laughter, and dramas are about a series of adverse events and then the good people win. Soaps are an unending series of tragedy followed by triumph.
Where tragedy shines is in showing injustice. We don't just like happy endings, we like being outraged by injustice. We can use that meme in conjunction with Unrest. Its just the first part of the story. If the world responds then the second part will be better.
Since I realize that life is not always uplifting, I do want my fiction to be. {Pretend those are rose colored glasses}So many people want both fiction and life to be uplifting.