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Is Life Positive, Neutral, or Negative?
The Existentialists are correct.
Life is neutral and neither positive nor negative.
- Events in the world are not personal or about you.
- Events in life are neither positive nor negative.
Is Life Positive, Neutral, or Negative?
Interpretation
- What makes events positive or negative is human psychology.
- In this sense, human psychology includes personal reactions, emotional reactions, interpretations, intentions, expectations, and how an event affects oneself.
- What makes events depressing is also human psychology.
- Humans often find events and experiences depressing when they involve the loss of important values, ideals, or principles.
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INTERPRETATION MAKES POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE
Depressing Movie
- The movie Detachment is not depressing.
- However, the movie Detachment is about events that human psychology will categorize as negative.
- Human psychology further categorizes these negative events as depressing because they demonstrate a loss of human values, ideals, or principles.
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Movie Not Depressing
- Still, the movie Detachment is not depressing because it is a slice of life, a detached view of events, and an objective statement of some inherently neutral facts.
- The movie focuses on presenting events, not characterizing events from a personal point of view.
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Movie Neutral
- The movie is designed to increase awareness, not to have you vicariously live as or side with the characters in the movie.
- At its best, the movie is a call to social action.
- The intent to be depressed comes from the viewer, not the movie.
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ATTITUDE MAKES POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE
- The movie They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? is depressing.
- The movie is also about events that people will label as negative.
- The movie also discusses the loss of values, ideals, and principles, which many people find depressing.
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What Depresses?
- So how are the two movies (Detachment and They Shoot Horses) different in that one is depressing and one is not if they are both about content that can be interpreted as negative and depressing?
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Perspective Is Depressing
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? is based on the personal perspectives and experiences of individuals and does not attempt to present events in a factual or objective manner to make you think and act as is Detachment.
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FEELINGS DON’T PROVE POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? is an attempt to present events in a very personal and human manner to make you feel and understand the struggle of others as your own.
- Since the events are negative and include a loss of values, the movie is depressing for the main characters and any audience members who empathize with them.
- Moviegoers will then share these depressing feelings with the characters via empathy and vicariously living with or as the characters in the movie.
- At its best, the movie reminds us of the Universality of Human Nature.
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