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that's the Dead Poets Society it's one of the first movies to ever make me cry
and since then I've always had this love for sad movies I didn't understand it
for the longest time I thought people were supposed to like comedies or action
movies or superhero movies movies that are uplifting and make you feel like
inspired to do something more so when people ask me what type of movies I like
it didn't know what to say for a while I couldn't just say I like movies that
make you feel sad that was a weird thing to say especially in like a social
environment people are gonna think I'm depressed so I would say things like I
really liked the movie Mystic River just as a benchmark just to engage how they
respond to that most often they'll say I haven't seen it in which case I'll say
well that's the movie Sean Penn won an Oscar for and then segue away from that
since then I have recommended many many sad movies to people recommend a lot of
static shows - this is us is probably one of my favorite shows on television
right now I don't watch that many TV shows or movies these days so have to be
strategic with what I watched I have to watch something that would take me out
of my current state this is idea that happiness is a good feeling and sadness
is a bad feeling fear is bad feeling and anger is a bad feeling I don't
really think that way I don't think there's anything that's a bad feeling I
think there's just feelings what I think is important is understanding your
natural state your normal emotions the day-to-day feelings that you have it's
good to understand okay during the course of the week what feelings is most
prominent for me I'm somewhere between anger and happiness those are my two
feelings that is me so what I'm looking for entertainment I'm looking for
entertainment that could take me out of that state to help me feel something
different and now I'm gonna say something that kind of humble braggy but
I feel like most people can relate we live a pretty awesome life the fact that
our most natural feelings are slight anger and happiness that is fantastic
that is such a privilege that we don't have to live our life with our baseline
feeling as fear and that is why horror movies are so popular but sad movies
that's a whole nother piece right that's a whole nother thing because if you like
a horror movie people think like yeah people like roller coasters but if you
like a sad movie it's like what do you like going to the cemetery so just
talking to some of my friends and thinking about the idea of why do I
enjoy sad movie so much why do I like it so much because sad things are gonna
happen so you have to prepare yourself emotionally so that is why I watch sad
movies just to help me picture it in my head I drew this triangle with a circle
inside so the circle is me it's pretty much me in my natural state and inside I
put anger justice by natural state day to day I could get angry it's not a bad
thing it's not a good thing that's just my natural state but I'm also pretty
close to happiness always making myself happy
is super easy I buy a burger to eat the burger I'm super happy I finish my work
finally and I'm like ah yeah I'm super happy I crack open a beer I'm happy I'm
reading a book I'm happy I'm making this video right now I'm very very happy and
fear is not that uncommon as well fear is in the other corner right beside the
circle on the other side and fear happens all the time I live in a big
city so fear can just be like a guy on the street shouting beside me that
happens pretty often but sadness sadness is as I said something that is in fact
not that common in day to day life I don't get to feel sad in day to day life
I'm very lucky that way I'm very sheltered that
that I don't have to deal with it I know that so that's why I watch sad movies
sadness is all the way up in the top corner sadness requires me to actually
go to it and it's not always appropriate to take other people on the sadness
journey with you it's like you're having a conversation you don't necessarily
want to talk about something sad and printing your company into this
melancholy place I get why people don't want to watch sad movies and that's
because their emotional triangle is it's different from mine maybe they feel
sadness more frequently than I do maybe they live with sadness
maybe sadness is their emotional circle and they live in that corner and
happiness is something that is harder for them to get to the brilliant thing
about entertainment that way is escapism and I think the better you can
understand your emotional triangle the better you would be a finding content
that really takes you away and that's something I'm trying to understand in
myself that's something that it's important to
think about anytime you make something what is the emotional state of my
audience because someone who's looking to be happy
the Sun want a piece of sad content so this is a weird roundabout way to say
that I don't get to feel sad that often and that is why I need sad movies and
maybe a hug thank you for watching and I hope this video helps you understand why
some people like sad movies some people like happy movies and maybe understand a
bit more about your own emotional state I'm definitely not an expert on emotions
I can only talk about how I relate to them so I hope it helps anyways I'm
Elliot Chan I'm a writer content creator and this channel is all
about helping writers content creators start a project finish a project or just
be inspired I'll talk to you soon
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