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Love is a cruel joke that makes us think we can find happiness, before snatching happiness from us and smashing it into ashes, like a burned out cigarette.


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Million Dollar Baby (2005)
When we have hopes and dreams and work hard to bring about our desires, life will play cruel tricks on us and crush our spirits.

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Hotel Rwanda (2005)
This movie paints a dismal, depressing picture of humanity's pitiless violence towards one another. But I refuse to give up. There is hope for humanity. I keep telling myself that.

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Cold Mountain (2003)
Has an OK ending, but the misery, human treachery and
despicable portrait of humanity in war is very stark.

despicable portrait of humanity in war is very stark.

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Ms. Sigourney obviously meant for this sequel to be her last participation in the Aliens franchise. It is a dark, distopic vision of horror on a difficult prison planet. Like early Australia without the kangaroos. The only hope is for quick deaths that serve some purpose.

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Not until he lives a thousand years and meets his mom in a fantasy does she finally treat him right.


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Movies that make us give up hope and believe all is lost. They make me cry or think I should give up. This list will have spoilers - Beware! See a doomsday list at What the Earth can become and The Future Kind of Sucks and Eco Terror and Life is a Lie: movies that make you paranoid A different list is at: 50 most depressing happy endings
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