There’s a category of film that has at its heart the essential thought of “character who has all the pieces on the surface, however has simply discovered that s/he has nothing on the within.”
Arguably one of many classes of those sorts of films is one thing like “Cash doesn’t purchase happiness,” however someway, some movies appear to glamorize each the affluence and the vacancy that will come together with such a way of life. Different movies, nonetheless, don’t go for this in any respect. Listed here are a couple of rich-yet-unhappy-themed movies, rated on how a lot they make you wish to be wealthy and sad.
1. Misplaced in Translation (2003)
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Sofia Coppola has a knack for placing prosperous, fairly, naive younger feminine characters in miserable/ alienated/ in opposition to the world conditions, and Misplaced in Translation isn’t any exception. The film’s so quiet and refined that it’d simply be second to its soundtrack, which is simply as fairly. Regardless of the case, Coppola’s sophomore movie positively makes you wish to look out over the Tokyo skyline in a lavish resort at 5 a.m. whereas feeling melancholy and misplaced.
Rating: 9.7/10
2. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Everybody’s completely wealthy in The Royal Tenenbaums, however, principally, everybody within the movie can also be deeply melancholy, in a single sense or one other. Richie loves Margot. Margot’s completely depressed. Richie tries to kill himself. I believe Eli tries to kill himself. Royal fakes abdomen most cancers. Chas is estranged. And so on. Regardless of all of the struggling, although, Wes Anderson manages to maintain a way of magnificence and safety by affluence, and by the top of all of it, you would like you have been a lovesick Tenenbaum with emotional issues.
Rating: 9.2/10
3. As Good As It Will get (1997)
This 1997 romantic comedy starring Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, and Greg Kinnear is filled with affluence and fairly intense life difficulties. Regardless, James L. Brooks – the movie’s director – does a fairly good job of coating the movie with a maybe pre-twee, life-affirming sheen, if you’ll, whereby viewing the central characters form of makes you would like you lived such a rich and affected, albeit significant life.
Rating: 8.3/10
4. American Magnificence (1999)
Now that the American center class is crumbling, and 90s nostalgia has rapidly taken over 80s nostalgia because the predominant emotional callback for individuals of their mid- to late-20s, I believe it’s affordable to say that well-off (when it comes to cash) suburban households just like the central characters in Sam Mendes’ American Magnificence are a minimum of considerably ‘wealthy.’ Admittedly, American Magnificence is rather less lighthearted than the movies to date talked about, however there are some fairly tweeningful moments in American Magnificence that make you wish to return to being a younger, tousled 90s suburbanite.
6. Husbands and Wives (1992)
Arguably certainly one of Woody Allen’s greatest movies so far (effectively, let’s face it – his golden years in movie are in all probability over) Husband’s and Wives is a film a couple of pretty younger, pretty prosperous group of people. On the heart of the movie is Gabe – Allen’s character – who isn’t depressed per say, however is the embodiment of a typical over-analytical/ pessimistic Allen character. Surrounding Gabe is a veritable whirlwind of marital strife and romantic discord amongst bohemian and WASPy Manhattan flats and tennis golf equipment. And although the movie actually ends with the primary character instantly expressing, to the digital camera crew, that he desires it to finish, some viewers members nonetheless discover themselves secretly wishing that their over-analytical worries have been being performed out in Manhattan amongst a gaggle of younger, prosperous {couples}.
Rating: 7.6/10
7. Greenberg (2010)
Greenberg is a not-very-publicized movie whose central characters are performed by Ben Stiller and indie movie star Greta Gerwig. Directed by Noah Baumbach, the movie’s not a lot mumblecore as it’s anxietycore, perhaps. Roger Greenberg, the character performed by Ben Stiller, is a 40-something laptop programmer who has both bipolar dysfunction or borderline persona dysfunction (my very own proposed diagnoses). Florence Marr, performed by Greta Gerwig, is a clumsy 20-something who’s assistant to Roger’s brother and sister-in-law, each wealthy LA individuals. Whereas the couple’s on trip, Roger flies to LA after a nervous breakdown to take time to “do nothing for awhile” (termed as “courageous” by one other wealthy character). A sophisticated relationship between Roger and Florence ensue. Lots of people truly hate this film, usually citing the abrasiveness of Stiller’s character, however it’s my opinion that Greenberg does a wonderful job portraying very concrete and actual first world issues.
Rating: 3.2/10
8. American Psycho (2000)
Clearly, American Psycho wants no introduction. The movie adaptation Bret Easton Ellis’ twisted 1991 novel of the identical identify is barely much less fucked up than the ebook, however not by a large margin. That is maybe the one film on this checklist that nearly instantly asks the viewers to contemplate the query “Ugh, why are wealthy individuals so fucked up?”
Rating: 0/10
9. There Will Be Blood (2007)
Arguably top-of-the-line movies of the ’00s, There Will Be Blood charts the life course of a ruthless oil entrepreneur named Daniel Plainview, performed by Daniel Day Lewis, through the oil increase in America within the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As you may need guessed from this checklist’s headline, Plainview’s life doesn’t end up so supreme, and the outcomes are fairly ugly.
Rating: 3.9/10
10. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Simply certainly one of Charlie Kaufman’s greatest movies – and, coincidentally, his directorial debut – in addition to certainly one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s biggest performances, in my opinion, Synecdoche, New York doesn’t actually provide the viewer a lot when it comes to existential comfort. The movie approaches the viewers in a really concrete, down-to -to earth sense in the beginning of the movie – a quick portrait of a well-off playwright, his painter spouse, and their youngster – however rapidly turns into difficult by steady additions of layers of existential dread, confusion, loss, and despair. I believe we will all agree that watching Synecdoche, New York, none of us needed to be in Caden Cotard’s footwear.
Rating: 0.5/10 (He will get to go to Germany at one level, which is fairly cool.)
