We're All Liars

Just finished watching Buried. The whole movie was filmed in a coffin. A man in a coffin with a lighter, flashlight, two glow sticks, liquor, pills, and a phone. I'm going to give it away because it's not worth watching.

He was supposedly attacked in Iraq and buried underground. The last call was from someone in the US who said they were digging him out. The coffin was filling with sand and of course in my mind, he was going to be saved. They said, "oh, no, they gave us the location to Mark White's coffin." So in the end, he got buried alive. That's it. No happy ending. No great story. No special feelings.

The only thing I liked about that movie was that the ending was truth. I'm trired of watching happy endings that are clearly fantasy. I like real stories with real people, real endings. Life. Life is great but it's also hell. Bad things do happen and miracles do not always occur. The more we watch these fake endings, the more we're surprised when bad things happen. We expect the "fantasy" to come true and to come true in our lives. If we watch more movies with real life endings, that are unfortunate, then maybe we can condition ourselves to be okay with bad experiences and endings. Maybe people would realize when bad things happen, we keep going, it's not an excuse to end your life. That bad things happen but their not as big a deal as we make them out to be. I think the reason we make them up to be big deals is because we're so used to seeing the 'miracles' occur. We're conditioned to think positively. Which is good! But there's always a balance to everything.

Miracles do happen, just not as often and not like they are portrayed in movies. I have a love/hate relationship with realistic endings.