Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

MIMDB score: 8.7
Current IMDB score: 8.1
Director: Stephen Chbosky
Main Actors you care about: Emma Watson, Logan Miller, Paul Rudd

Why I liked it:
I'm going to be bias in this movie review because I love this movie more than I should.  I feel like it matches reality more than most movies.  Although in real life Sam would probably have never dated Charlie.  I feel like most of this story happened in Stephen Chbosky's life except the part where he started dating the girl.  It could have happened but it's rare to ever really like someone for a long time and have them like you back after a long period of time.  If it was going to happen it would have probably happened a year into knowing someone.  It can happen but overall that doesn't happen often.  It's needed to have them end up together at the end of the movie because there's a lot of bad things that happen in the movie.  I don't think the audience would respond as well if they didn't end up together.  Too much sadness in the a movie really turns people off.  The sadness that is in this movie probably turns a lot of people off.  It's such a sad movie.  It's such a meaningful movie.  It's such a loving movie.  Sorry but this movie really deserves to be higher than a 8.1.  This movie gave me a lot to think about in relationships.  After watching it I immediately wanted to watch it again.

What stands out:
The way this movie looks at life is what stands out the most.  Most things said by Charlie are what would come out a friend's or my mouth.  It's real.  Some of the other characters don't say things a normal person would say but Charlie I think does.  I might be bias here though.

What I Would Change (if anything): I kind of don't like the scene where Patrick tries to kiss Charlie.  That whole little part where he's only hanging out with Patrick seems like filler.  I would have done something else.  I understand Patrick being that hurt by a relationship will mess up his sense of judgement because he just wants to feel good again but I think it distracts from the story of Charlie.  Patrick should know by then that Charlie is in love with Sam.

Favorite Line(s)/Scene:  Ok here we go.  I think this will be a long section.  Hopefully it will be.

First off the most important lines:
Charlie: Why do nice people choose the wrong people to date?
Bill: Are we talking about anyone specific?
[Charlie nods]
Bill: Well, we accept the love we think we deserve.
Charlie: Can we make them know that they deserve more?
Bill: We can try.

There so much to say here.  Lets start with, so many times in life people choose to love people without looking at an important part of a person.  How well they are being treated.  I say that but it's really hard to judge that in someone when you are head over heels in love.  It's hard when your feelings are involved.  It's hard because you put so much effort into love that when you have to think about whether or not you are being loved back it gets really hard to be unbiased.  I think that's because being in love with some one is embracing your bias.  Everyone is mostly the same.  Most people love the same way.  Most people will love you (in some way) after being around you for a certain amount of time.  That's kind of my experience for the most part.  They say the number one indicator of love is proximity.  Picking one person to love the rest of your life can only, (repeating) only be done with embracing bias.  Because of this bias it's hard, if not impossible, to look objectively at your significant other that you are in mainly only in love with because of said bias.  It's such a Catch-22.  You want to be in love, but being in love makes you overlook flaws in that love that could make you fall out of love over time.  It's such an odd thing to think about really.

"We accept the love we think we deserve."  This took awhile to think through.  Is this really true?  For me, I never really had a problem.  I don't overly put up with bullshit when it comes to girls I'm actually dating.  I have put up with the runaround from girls I'm not dating but that doesn't really count as dating I don't think.  If a girl is doing some bull crap I'll usually call her out on it and talk through it with her.  It might take me awhile but I still do it and don't really put up with it.  Does that mean I think I deserve no bull crap?  I don't really know.  Maybe so.  I don't put up with bullcrap because I don't believe in bullcrap.  No one should be treated poorly and I don't understand when when we treat someone poorly.  I think that because that makes sense.  Treat others as you like to be treated.  If I treat others well then I will be treated well back.  If I don't get treated well back that doesn't make sense and I will call them out.  In a way that means I don't think I deserve bull crap.  That's my own perspective though.

The rest of this will be for the other people I see in my life picking people that end up being wrong for them.  I don't really know if they do that because they don't think they deserve more.  I think they pick bad people because they aren't really picking.  If you think you choose the person you love then I think you are crazy.  I've never been able to force myself to love someone.  I can fake love someone.  Faking love though is easy to see through and doesn't really mean anything.  Fake loving is commonly refereed to as settling.  People know you love someone without you having to say it usually. You can't control it.  I'm sorry but you can't.  If you could then people would pick the person that treats them the best.  That doesn't happen.  Wait a minute.  Sometimes that does happen but not in any relationship I admire or feel is fantastic.  Persistence should not pay off when it comes to love.  That's why I don't really believe timing is everything.  Anyway you have to like more than just the way someone treats you.  After a lot of thought I think this quote is just for people that want to date people that date poorly (and think they should be dating them).  Like Charlie with Sam.  Granted Charlie has a sister who is dating poorly and he wishes she would not date ponytail Derrick anymore but Charlie is really thinking about Sam here.  After thinking about it I don't overly like this quote but I'm leaving it here because it's a important thought to think about.

(Rethinking) It does have some merit though.  If you are putting up with bullcrap from your lover then it might be because you don't think you deserve better.  Like people that go back to physically abusive lovers.  Like people that go back to people that cheat on them. You could look at it like those people don't think they deserve better or you can think of it as they don't have control over who they love and want it to work out so badly that they will risk being treated bad in the short term for long term happiness.  I don't really know though.  It seems I'm thinking in circles on this point.

Light quote next:
(at a high school dance)
Sam: "Oh my God they are playing good music!"
Yea good lord, high school dances were awful.  The last one I remember going to was just a bunch of rap music of the day, people grinding on each other, and me just laughing at the whole thing.  It's like a club scene in high school where you know everyone that's grinding on each other.  It's kind of hilarious to see.

Back to intense:
Charlie: [voice-over] "I don't know if I will have the time to write any more letters because I might be too busy trying to participate. So if this does end up being the last letter, I just want you to know that I was in a bad place before I started high school, and you helped me. Even if you didn't know what I was talking about or know someone who's gone through it, you made me not feel alone. Because I know there are people who say all these things don't happen. And there are people who forget what it's like to be 16 when they turn 17. I know these will all be stories someday. And our pictures will become old photographs. We'll all become somebody's mom or dad. But right now these moments are not stories. This is happening. I am here and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you're not a sad story. You are alive, and you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you're listening to that song and that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in this moment I swear, we are infinite."

So a few things here.  I like the idea of living in the past.  I think in the past so often.  A paraphrased quote from my dad: "When you get to be my age you'll see you have a lot previous stuff to think about that you forget you are in the present sometimes."  Yep, I'm only halfway in my life and I already mostly live right now in the past.  It's hard to believe there are people that don't live in the past.  Most days pass by and are uneventful.  So most days I'm thinking about the past days that were eventful.  There are people that don't think about everything in the past though.  I don't know how they do it.

"This is happening"  and the car scene.  I love those moments in life.  I'm not talking about when people post things like "So this is happening."  I'm talking about the moments that you KNOW are eventful and they are happening right now and you realize it's going to be eventful and you soak in as much as you freaking can so that in the future you'll have all these things to think about that are going on right now.  It's awesome.  I love it, I love it, I love it when it happens.  It's why people get up in the morning.  God it feels so good.  It makes me happy just pointing this out.

Light quote:
Patrick: "I dare you to kiss the prettiest girl in the room. . . ."
(Charlie kisses Sam)
Patrick: "Oh that's fucked up."
Indeed, it is fucked up. I laughed pretty hard and still do when I watch it.

Back to intense:
Sam: You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love.

Maybe because I like Charlie but is that not true?  Love in the like the non-romantic sense is caring about someone in a deeper way than most other people.  Putting someone's life ahead of yours is really caring about someone on a deeper level.  I would venture to say that putting someone's life ahead of yours does count as at least non-romantic love.  If though, she is talking about romantic love then she is kind of correct.  I don't know which way she is saying this though.  I don't think I fully understand this thought. I think I have a Charlie bias here or something that I can't see past.  Even in a romantic love, putting someone's life ahead of yours is a part of it.  You have to at least want to put their life ahead of yours I would think.  I don't fully understand this quote and having to think more on this is why I love this movie.

Light quote:
Charlie: Dad, can I have 30 dollars?
Father: 20 dollars? What do you need 10 dollars for?
Hilarious

Back to intense but not that intense:
Charlie: "And I know she would understand how I am both happy and sad, and I'm still trying to figure out how could that be."
I hate to say this but everyone is happy and sad at the same time.  We are humans.  We will die.  At the minimum you have loved someone that has died by now.  One of those thoughts has made you sad and you will remain sad about that until the day you die.  That doesn't stop you from being happy sometime later in life though.  Dying is just an example.  There is something in your life that has made you really sad and that you carry with you the rest of your life and think about from time to time when you are about to fall asleep.

Light:
Sam: Welcome to the island of misfit toys.
I just like it.

Last intense quote because this is getting too long:
Charlie: There is so much pain. And I-I-I don't know how to not notice it.
Dr. Burton: What's hurting you?
Charlie: No, not... not me. It's them! It's... it's everyone. It never stops. Do you understand?
This is the quote I relate to the most.  My life is very easy.  I get up, go to work which is fairly easy for me, get paid way higher than minimum wage while having very little stress. I go home, hang out with friends, watch movies and think about life and philosophy.  It's very easy.  I don't have a lot of problems.  I don't produce much pain in my life.  Everyone else is in so much pain around me.  It never stops.  It's always happening.  I can USUALLY deal with everything that happens to me but I can't deal with everything that happens to everyone else.  Empathy sucks sometimes.  Again I don't really have any problems and my life is fairly easy.  The things that happen to the people around me and people I don't even know are insanely complicated sometimes.  I don't know if they put themselves in those positions or what but why aren't those things happening to me?  Maybe I'm just the lucky one?  Never-the-less most pain in my life comes from others through things through empathy.  Not to say the happiness in my life doesn't come from others either.  It's definitely worth the happiness society gives me over the amount of pain that it gives me.  If I was to live in the woods by myself starting now (like Into the Wild), I think I would have a painless life.  I also would have a boring and not as happy of a life overall.

Sorry two more but not really intense:
Charlie: Sam, do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?
Sam: All the time.
I feel like everyone is acting all the time.  Some people are hard to see acting than others but they are still acting.  I know I'm acting.  Just about everyday I have to act to seem normal and for people not to worry.  Only a few times in life have I made it to the point with someone to really think that they aren't acting.  Those are generally the people I love.

Hooray last one (I can't believe you are still reading these):
Charlie: I know who you are, Sam. I know I'm quiet... and, and I know I should speak more. But if you knew the things that were in my head most of the time, you'd know what it really meant. How, how much we're alike, and how we've been through the same things... and you're not small. You're beautiful.

"I know who you are"  Never say that.  You never know anyone.  I know in the moment it feels like you do but you really don't.  "How, how much we're alike"  This is just a byproduct of loving someone I feel like.  Whenever you like someone (more than dislike) you will find the similarities between them and you.  If you don't like them you find differences.  As previously said loving someone can only be done with a bias.  You have things in common with your worst enemy and you have things not in common with the person you love most in the world.

Similar Movies/TV Shows: I don't know.  This movie gave me so much to think about as I hope I showed. Maybe the Wonder Years TV series.  That's probably a good comparison. Nostalgia of high school + Love + lots of thoughts.  It's Kind of a Funny Story is similar but much lighter than Perks.

"Side" note:
1210, the SAT score Sam gets was the same SAT score I received.  For some reason I like that.

I saw this movie alone in theaters in New York after being alone for about a year in New York.  It was before the movie came out anywhere else so "I was meant to watch it then".  This movie partly made me leave New York.  When I got back home I watched it again with friends.  When it came out online I watched it twice more.  I didn't even know it was a book.  I should probably read the book sometime.  Always read the book after watching the movie.  Never the other way around.  I've never heard anyone say the movie was better than the book.  Maybe once I have but the general rule would be to read the book after watching the movie.

The Painted Veil (2006)

MIMDB score: 7.0
Current IMDB score: 7.5
Director: Frank Capra
Main Actors you care about: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber

Why I liked it:
I like the style a lot.  It's simple and contemplative and beautiful in a way.  I guess that's really the Asian style when I think about it.  I never really looked at it as an Asian film because I focus on the two English speaking  people's relationship more than anything else.  The style seems wholesome. The movie is centered around cheating but it still stays wholesome overall.

I wrote out a whole spiel about why cheating is bad and how to stop yourself.  I took it out because in the end anyone with the capacity to stop themselves wouldn't be cheating so that spiel is really just a waste of time.  Learn to control your actions and think in a broader sense than just the here and now.  That's all I can really say.  I hope everyone can get that out of this movie.

What stands out:
Edward Norton's character.  I like him a lot.  It's another character to look up to.  Maybe that's all I'm trying to do with this blog is point out the way to live life.  A combination of good characters like Edward Norton's is the perfection I look up to and strive to be. As stated before in another post, people see what they want in art though. That's kind of what makes art, art.

What I Would Change (if anything): Nothing really in the movie.  I wish I could change politics.  This movie makes me never want to deal with a mass amount of people.  The only way to deal with a mass amount of people is to consider them dumb and that you know what's best for them.  I've never liked that people in power treat the people they have power over like they are dumb.   I don't know if I could mentality be okay with doing it.  It would take a lot of out of me to tell people what to do knowing that my guess of what they should do is just my best guess.  Especially if it meant some people might die.  Granted in Edward Norton's case he very likely was going to save them and that would be easier but I'm talking more general.  What he dealt with in the movie makes me think politics are a lot harder than most people would think.

Favorite Line(s)/Scene:
Walter Fane: I suppose I'm not used to speaking unless I have something to say.
Kitty Fane: If people only spoke when they had something to say, the human race would soon lose the power of speech.

Kitty Fane: As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

There's a good amount of conversations between the two that are interesting thoughts about relationships.

Similar Movies/TV Shows: Anna Karenina, Take This Waltz, the book On Beauty

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

MIMDB score: 7.5
Current IMDB score: 8.7
Director: Frank Capra
Main Actors you care about: James Stewart, Donnie Reed

Why I liked it:
It's another one of those whole life movies.  I feel like I have a bias towards those because I think in the long term and very little in the short term.  Leads to a few problems in my life but also leads to a lot of good things.  As with most ways to live it's partly good and partly bad.  I'm getting sidetracked because I can't think of much of why I like this movie.

It's just good.  It's really only about this guy that puts everyone else before himself in life and doesn't ultimately get to do what he wants with his life.  Love gets him, helping others gets him, being a good person gets him, standing up to bad guys gets him, a lot of things just get him to not do exactly what he wants with his life.  I used to think that's how my life is but that's not true.  That's just how I want my life to be.  This movie gives you that sense that your life is really for everyone.  The ending scene makes you want to cry.  It's hard to watch the ending scene and not cry.  Everyone in the town that this guy has helped turns around and helps him when he is down.  It's beautiful in that way.  James Stewart is the golden rule personified in a person. In case you've never heard, this saying is considered the Golden Rule: "Treat others as you liked to be treated."

What stands out:
It's in black and white. It's old.  This is one of the first movies that every did the "what would life be like without you in it".  It interesting to think about whether you are a positive or negative influence on the people around you.

What I Would Change (if anything):  It could be done better I fell like.  Don't get me wrong it's good already.  I feel like modernization could be done to it and the story could really shine.

Favorite Line(s)/Scene:  Ending Scene. Every time a person comes up to give him some money I tear up.  I start crying every time I see his wive's face when he looks at her at the end.  She seems so happy for him.  I'm sure after so many years of having a wife and having her do something like that would overwhelm me.  I'm usually staring at her face the whole scene because it's so good.

Similar Movies/TV Shows: Mr. Holland's Opus

"Side" note: They "remastered" the black and white version to make it in color.  It sounds like it will look terrible but it's actually pretty good looking.  I believe they painted (by computer hand) each object in the beginning of every scene and the computer was mostly able to keep that object the same color through a whole shot.  Pretty interesting.

Amélie (2001)

MIMDB score: 7.8
Current IMDB score: 8.4
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Main Actors you care about: Audrey Tautou

Why I liked it:
This movie is weird.  I'm not going to dance around that.  It's also weirdly interesting.  It's also not too weird. It's weird because the movie is about an introvert.  Most movies about introverts as the main character will be weird.  Most of the time weird is interesting though.  The introverted side of me loves this movie.

It makes you love life.  The idea that someone like Amélie is out there making things silently better is beautiful.  I look up to Amélie so much.  Mostly because silently making people's lives better makes myself happy as well as others.

What stands out:
French camera style of moving fast and being weird.  Some reason I really like the glass man.  I feel like everyone should have a glass man in their lives.

What I Would Change (if anything):  Somehow do all the sound in English using the actor's real voices and not a dubbed version.  A lot of English speakers will be turned off to watching it because they have to read.  I would be nice if I could causally watch it.  I should probably learn French though if I want to do that.  I gave it less than what IMDB has it because I wouldn't think so many people would be up for a weird subtitled movie.

Favorite Line(s)/Scene:  Whenever they do the likes and dislikes of a character.  They are sweet little things about the characters that add a niceness to the character.
"It's better to help people than garden gnomes" This is an interesting quote.  What it makes me believe is I ever wanted to give up on life and either kill myself or just stay at home and do nothing I will instead (because of this quote) join like the peace core or a non-profit and just help people the rest of my life.  It's better to help make another person's life better than just sit at home and do nothing.

Similar Movies/TV Shows: Love Me If You Dare

"Side" note: The writer was collecting things that made up Amélie's character since 1974.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

MIMDB score: 8.1
Current IMDB score: 7.8
Director: David Fincher
Main Actors you care about: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Jared Harris (sea captain)

Why I liked it:
So this movie gets a bad rap but as you can see it has a 7.8 on IDMB.  It's good. It's very much like Forrest Gump.  Everyone loves Forrest Gump.  I guess the turn off is the odd novelty of aging backwards since that's not possible.  Really though it's about this guy's life.  I never overly focused on his aging thing.  That's just for an artistic twist to the movie which I actually like.  Same with the humming bird analogy and the sea captain.  I feel like a lot of people find that cheesy and it kind of is but it's just adds to the art the film was trying to achieve.  It isn't a terrible analogy it's just not as well done as the analogies in Forrest Gump.

What stands out:
I love Brad Pitt in this movie.  I think he does really well.  A lot of good, meaningful moments as well.

What I Would Change (if anything):  I don't understand why he leaves at the end.  He could have been a father for a fairly long time it looked like.  For the story of Cate and her daughter it's needed for him to leave but I feel like they could have done something different.

Favorite Line(s)/Scene:  This scene.
"For what it's worth it's never to late or in my case too early to be who ever you want to be. There's no time limit; start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same; there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live life your proud of and if you find that you're not I hope you have the strength to start all over again."
This moment reminds me of when Tom Hanks starts talking to the camera about Jenny dying in Forrest Gump.  This quote and scene is what makes me want to quit my job and run away to travel the world.  It's hard to figure out what is wasting life.  In the end I settle back and say that there's very little part of life that really could be considered a waste.  All experiences will effect your understanding of the world.  Even the experiences you have right outside your front door.

Also the ending scene.  Some people in life stand out at one thing.  It's wonderful when you see it in people.  They love being it and doing it whatever it is.  You can feel and see it in your own life I'm sure.  I think mine is computer programming.  It's so easy and makes so much sense when I'm doing it.  It's kind of a escape from all the other bull crap in life.  It's hard to have that bad of a life when "work" is what distracts you from life.

Similar Movies/TV Shows: You guessed it, Forrest Gump.

"Side" note: One of the many things I think this movie is overlooked for is the deep amount of time spent on analogies that seem to come up short.  I mentioned the humming bird analogy with the sea captain.  The humming bird was used in that analogy instead of other birds partly because it's the only bird in the world that can fly backwards (just like Benjamin).

Before Sunset (2004)

(I know this poster is for Sunrise but it's really good so I had to use it for Sunset)

MIMDB score: 7.2
Current IMDB score: 8.1
Director: Richard Linklater
Main Actors you care about:  Ethan Hawke, Juile Delpy

Why I liked it:
This movie is different than most movies you have seen.  It's just an hour+ of straight conversation between two people.  That's it.  It could be considered really boring in that regard.  It's not though.  If you enjoy good conversation then you should enjoy this movie.  There are a lot of real life thoughts that most people will connect with because they have had them and are unable to articulate them like this movie does.  This is the second movie in the current trilogy.  Before Sunrise is where they met, Before Sunset is where they fall in love, and Before Midnight is well, I won't spoil it.

What stands out:
Conversations

What I Would Change (if anything):  For this type of movie you can't change much.  People are either going to like or find it boring.  8.1 I think is a little high for most people's liking which is why my score is lower.  I don't understand when Julie gets kind of crazy near the end.  I don't know why she lied about remembering the first time they met.  Very odd in my opinion and I would change that.

I figured out one explanation as to why she might have lied.  An explanation I like anyway.  I think she was trying to downplay the night so that he would move on with his wife instead of doing anything with her.

Favorite Line(s)/Scene:  There's a lot of good quotes in this movie.  This one I connected with the most.
"I always feel like a freak, because I'm never able to move on like... this! You know. People just have an affair, or even entire relationships... they break up and they forget! They move on like they would have changed brand of cereals! I feel I was never able to forget anyone I've been with. Because each person have... their own, specific qualities. You can never replace anyone. What is lost is lost. Each relationship, when it ends, really damages me. I never fully recover. That's why I'm very careful with getting involved, because... It hurts too much! Even getting laid! I actually don't do that... I will miss on the other person the most mundane things. Like I'm obsessed with little things. Maybe I'm crazy, but... when I was a little girl, my mom told me that I was always late to school. One day she followed me to see why. I was looking at chestnuts falling from the trees, rolling on the sidewalk, or... ants crossing the road, the way a leaf casts a shadow on a tree trunk... Little things. I think it's the same with people. I see in them little details, so specific to each of them, that move me, and that I miss, and... will always miss. You can never replace anyone, because everyone is made of such beautiful specific details."

Similar Movies/TV Shows: Before Sunrise, Before Midnight, My Dinner with Andre, and The Man from Earth.  Before Sunset is the best out of the three.  Before Midnight is the next best.  I watched them in this order: Sunset, Sunrise, Midnight.

"Side" note: Everything the characters do with their hands/body is scripted.  It looks very natural but it was mostly in the script which is kind of insane.  They have done a movie every nine years since the first movie, Before Sunrise, came out.  Nine year passes in real life and nine years passes in the movie time as well. Pretty cool.

Into the Wild (2007)

MIMDB score: 8.4
Current IMDB score: 8.2
Director: Sean Penn
Main Actors you care about:  Emile Hirsch, Jena Malone, Vince Vaughn, Hal Holbrook

Why I liked it:
This movie should make you think about your life and your place in society.  It's a movie I keep coming back to in my own thoughts.

When asked why I go camping I think of this movie.  This movie showcases the benefit of camping or hiking into the woods.  You can go to vacation to the beach and have a grand ole time.  There's still normal things you have to do on a regular beach vacation.  You still have to worry about x or y.  When your in the woods I feel like that goes away a bit.  Societal tribulations go away.  I think the movie captures this a lot in the music choices it makes.  Eddie Vedder's simple and calming songs bring you into that feeling that a beach vacation can not do.  It's wonderful.

To each his or her own though.

What stands out:
The main character.  He is very interesting and very interesting to think about.  He says most of the quotes worth thinking about.

What I Would Change (if anything):  Most people say it's stupid he dies in the end.  It kind of is.  Later this article came out that said he only died because of unknown consequence of eating potato root. If you eat the potato root while malnourished it causes the potato root to be a poison rather than giving nutritional value.  So he died because he ate a plant that his book told him would be ok to eat.  He also concluded that living alone in the woods isn't as good as if it was a shared experience.  I'm ok with that ending and think it's mostly good.

Favorite Line(s)/Scene:  There's a lot of good quotes in this movie.  A bar scene between Chris and Wayne about society stands out the most.  "You know what I don't understand? I don't understand why people, why ever fucking person is so bad to each other so fucking often.  It doesn't make sense to me. Judgement, control, the whole spectrum."  Agreed good sir.  Everybody when in the moment gets pissed and treats people poorly.  You have to learn to realize that and not get too upset when it happens.  Getting upset at an upset person is no good.  It's hard not to sometimes because that's all the upset person is trying to get out of you.  It's awful.  There are so many reason we treat each other poorly and they don't make sense in a logical form.  They make you feel better in the moment and sometimes when life is really shitty you need that to not like kill yourself.  You need to treat others poorly sometimes to not go crazy.  It's not understandable of why that is but it's a part of life.  It's a sucky part of life.

Similar Movies/TV Shows: True Detective? Mostly because of the thinking.  127 Hours and Wild but it wasn't very good.

"Side" note: The article about the potato root.