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The reason I get depressed is because imagining myself in those films sounds so much fun, and then I go back to the real world and it's nothing like that.
In those films, for example, the characters have amazing powers, they fight bad guys, they have a group of friends they fight alongside that are inseparable, they travel through a lot of different worlds, they have an inseparable lover, etc.
Meanwhile back to the real world we either have to work all day or go to school all day, and some people even a combination of both. Spending hours and hours at a job we hate, endless assignments and projects at school. Constantly worrying about money, how most of us don't have enough and will borderline be homeless if our medical bills get too expensive. And so on and so forth.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun in the real world, but it's nowhere near the same as it is in the fictional worlds.
Watching movies, listening to music, reading books, playing sports, eating good food, hanging out with friends, having fun with your lover, etc, are all great... but those are such a small percentage of the time compared to how much you work, go to school, and worry about money. You get like 95% of your life only working your ass off, only to have fun 5% of your life.
So as a result I find myself watching more realistic depressing movies. Movies about crimes and drugs. About psychological stuff, depression. Dark comedies. Depressing documentaries.
May sound kind of weird, but those movies are more comforting to me than happy films because they don't make me wish for a magical reality that doesn't exist. They tell it like it is. They properly show how the world sucks and don't try to lie.
TL;DR Basically the reason I get depressed is because the real world isn't happy and fun like those films. While the characters are going out on adventures, for most of our lives all we do is work jobs we hate and constantly worry about money.
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That's so interesting (to me). So, I have been really drawn to anything sci-fi over the last couple of years specifically to distract from feeling depressed.
(everything from 1930's radio show through all the classics. Mostly a thousand or so audiobooks).
I have the exact opposite feelings towards those unrealistic, otherworldly type stories.
Because the real world is indeed pretty grim a lot of the time, It's like a silly, meaningless escape/distraction. I can read about some stupid adventure, and get into it then that little adventure is done.
The fact that it's so unrealistic helps remove my thoughts from drudgery and/or depression.
I don't get sad because I have to come back to reality when its over. I like them because they help take me out for a short time (then I just listen to a next one, if I want to)
I am very specifically drawn to the kind of things you dislike. I can't stand watching realistic drama kinda shows. Because they don't feel like an escape. I"m just watching a dramatized version of the world. I'm already in the world. I don't need more.
You and I see this from totally different sides of the coin. But that particular type of story is a stand-out category among several (romance, comedy etc.). That wacky time traveling not on earth, futuristic non-realistic stuff.
That's interesting.
Wow. Just wow. I'm both shocked and impressed. We are literal complete and total opposites (when it comes to this topic at least) in every single way, down to every single individual word. It's almost like you're me but from an opposite universe. Or like you have psychic powers and read my mind and were able to translate everything I just said into the exact and total opposite. Totally different sides of the same coin is goddamn right.
In all seriousness though, it's great to see people with different views than me! Having people agree with me can be very fun, but people disagreeing with me and having completely opposite views is also very fun as long as they're not being rude. Like if you had said something like: "No no no you're fucking wrong bro it's the other way around. Were you dropped on your head as a child or some shit? Are you retarded or just a troll?" then I'd be enraged. But the way you put it, it was polite and very fun to read.
But yeah. It's extremely interesting. Let's just be grateful that movie options for both of our tastes exist, lol. And let's appreciate the diversity in the human mindset.
haha, I'm glad you find it as interesting as I do! I was blown away when I read your question description. I guess your my exact opposite for this one very specific thing. It's nice to know you're out there somewhere. Take care man
I've been interested in fictional universes for as long as I remember and I owe them, and their creators, a lot. Up to the point where fiction has been assimilated and is part of my life, without it, (my perception of) reality would probably look... not satisfying enough to me
I get depressed thinking about Disney movies cuz almost everyone in them ends up in great relationships and they somehow are filthy rich.