Neither are sad movies (only) movies that make you cry. Sad movies can’t just be those films that are relentlessly dark-films that depict suffering just for the hell of it, what we might label “poverty porn,” “war porn,” and overall “suffering porn.” (Shoutout to the Book of Job for this trend.) For the sake of consistency, we might say that a sad movie is one that creates a particular mood.īut that mood must be deeper than mere depression. Still, we think we could do a bit better than intuition. How we define a “sad movie” is often how former United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once defined obscenity in film, i.e., hardcore pornography: we know it when we see it.
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