It's a term that everyone has heard of, and it's a condition that most people don't understand. It is not an excuse for the innocent groaning on the Internet and some people doing something wrong to escape, but a real illness. This time will take stock of 10 depression-related movies, ranking in no particular order, 10 can not cover all, the space is limited, you may wish to understand.
1. "Depression"
Douban score: 7.1
Reason for recommendation: The opening film is a perfect interpretation of the difficulty of others with this disease.
Synopsis: On a romantic night, the talented and beautiful girl Justin (Kerstin Dunst) and her beloved Mike (Alexander Skarsgard) enter the wedding hall, and the sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbour) and the family spend thousands of dollars for her. However, inexplicable panic and sadness struck her heart, leaving Justin depressed all night, her marriage had just begun to be on the verge of ruin, and her relationship with relatives, friends and colleagues had become extremely tense. Claire tries to bring her sister out of depression, but with little success. At the same time, a mysterious asteroid is rapidly approaching the earth, and it seems that it is it that brings Justin's melancholy, and it seems that the troubles in the original depression are only released by it...
2. "Helen"
Douban score: 6.9
Recommended reason: An endless war.
Synopsis: She, Helen, has a successful career, although divorced, but also has a husband who loves herself and hurts her daughter, who can think that behind this happiness is a demon: she suffers from severe depression. Suicide attempts twice, perhaps life should not be so. However, stubbornly, she refused treatment and did not want her relatives to see the worst side of her, so two women with the same disease walked together. A "mom" awakens sleeping memories and also inspires the courage to heal. Will Helen be able to get a new life? Can she go back in time?
3. "Love Returns to New Jersey"
Douban score: 7.4
Reason for recommendation: Find love, find yourself.
Synopsis: Andrew (Zach Braff), a 26-year-old young man who has been working alone in Los Angeles for 9 years, volunteered to become an actor, but still remains unknown today, usually working in restaurants to make a living. A phone call took Andrew back to his long-lost hometown in New Jersey. For some reason, he had little contact with his family for some reason, and years of antidepressant medication had left him indifferent to everything around him, even though today his mother, who had been paralyzed for years, had died unexpectedly. In his hometown, he saw his father, who was a psychiatrist, and his fox friends at that time, everything seemed to have changed, and everything had changed a lot. At his father's suggestion, Andrew goes to the hospital to treat himself with a headache that has been bothering him for a long time, but here he meets the beautiful but somewhat neurotic girl Saman (Natalie Boman), and his desperate life like stagnant water is transformed...
4. "Two Days and One Night"
Douban score: 7.5
Reason for recommendation: The appeal of the movie lies in the fact that it is just right.
Synopsis: The heroine Sandra is a female worker who has just come out of depression and a mother of two children, but she immediately faces factory layoffs and unemployment. With her husband's unwavering support and companionship, she spent a weekend convincing her co-workers to re-vote for her to keep her vital job. However, the choice of her co-workers to support her needs to come at the cost of losing a prize of 1,000 euros.
5. "The Last Days"
Douban score: 7.0
Reason for recommendation: A sincere film, only time is passing in the end.
Synopsis: Blake (Michael Pitt) is a melancholy, sensitive and slender musician. Exhausted by the commodity society and the hustle and bustle of the city, he escaped from the Metropolis and hid in a villa in the forest. Strangely dressed, he muttered every day through the woods, honor and money, status and fame all lost their meaning at this moment. Even so, the world around him continued to invade Blake's last territory. Friends, agents, studios, strangers... You come and go, and how many people really care about Blake's inner transmutation? After a few days of solitude, Blake plays the last piece of music alone in the basement, then looks up to heaven and never returns...
6. "Detachment"
Douban score: 8.9
Reason for recommendation: How the existence of outsiders exists.
Synopsis: Henry Baht (Adrian Brody) comes to the community school as a substitute teacher. The school is on the brink of extinction due to student rebellion and poor management, and a group of teachers led by Doris (Liu Yuling) are suffering. Henry's first class was provoked by a stubborn student, but he defused it cleverly. He wins the favor of the female teacher Sasha (Christina Hendricks). At the same time, his teaching style has aroused the interest of his classmates, including Meredith, who is depressed by obesity. She has been silently bearing all kinds of scolding and ridicule caused by her weight. But because of the teacher, she seems to have found all the reasons again... However, Henry actually has a lot of pressure inside, his grandfather is in his death, and the shadow of his mother's suicide is always in his mind. One night, he was devastated on the bus and wept alone. This is seen by Erica (Sammy Gale), a young prostitute who has just been humiliated by a prostitute. She followed him, hoping to get his help. He initially refused her request, but later he took her back to the bachelor apartment...
7. "About a Boy"
Douban score: 7.3
Reason for recommendation: None of us are islands.
Synopsis: Will (Hugh Grant) is a wealthy Man in London. He inherited his father's inheritance, eating, drinking and having fun all day, playing love scenes. Yet there was emptiness and loneliness in his heart. In order to be able to meet more women, he thought of the Single Parents' Association. There are many single mothers there, and he must be able to navigate with ease. With this in mind, he disguised himself as a single father and joined the Single Parents' Association. Max's (Nicholas Holt) mother is also a member of the Parents' Council. Every morning, my mother would wake up depressed, in tears, and wanted to kill herself. With the misfortune of Max's family and the fact that he was often bullied, he pinned his hopes on Will and regarded him as an object to rely on. He often visited Will's house and sat next to Will silently watching TV. At first, all this made Will feel very disturbed. But slowly, the two lonely hearts began to find a reliance, and the friendship between Will and the little boy gradually warmed up.
8. The New York Metaphor Law
Douban score: 8.3
Reason for recommendation: Performing everyone's life in a huge and complicated theater.
Synopsis: In September, with the arrival of autumn, there seems to be the loneliness of theater director Kelton (Philip Seymour Hoffman), due to an accidental injury, Cayton is caught in an endless medical treatment, constantly visiting doctors of various professions; on the other hand, the wife of the miniature painting, Adele (Catherine Keener), and his increasingly distant, cold and awkward family atmosphere deepens Keton's self-doubt, even if his repertoire is a great success, can not hide all this. Kaiton maintained an ambiguous relationship with a woman who worked in the theater and an actress, and after his wife abandoned him, Kaiton tried to find the possibility of improving his mental state from these two women, but he failed. Cayton finally decided to find the answer in theater, and he produced a huge creative plan...
9. "All the Time"
Douban score: 8.6
Reason for recommendation: You can't escape life.
Synopsis: Three women across time and space, because of a name are linked---- Mrs. Dai Luowei. Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman), who lives in the suburbs of London in the 1920s, is working on her last novel, Mrs. Dailoway. Walking on the edge of fiction and real life, she bears great pressure and a sense of bondage, and even longs for death in her heart. Laura Brown (Julianne Moore), a Los Angeles housewife living at the end of World War II. "Mrs. Dai Luowei" caused her to constantly ask herself, what is a more meaningful life? Day after day of family life also made her suicidal desire. Clarisa Vogan (Meryl Streep), who lives in New York in the '90s, is living a Mrs. Dellovia-like life. Her beloved friend, Richard, is talented but unable to take care of herself because of AIDS. The kind Mrs. Dai Luowei acts as the host of the party, bringing happiness to everyone, but it is difficult to resolve the loneliness and sadness in her heart. In different time and space, deep in their hearts, the struggle and struggle for death have not stopped, all the time.
10. "Veronica Decides to Die"
Douban score: 6.8
Recommended reason: A lie that everyone believes.
Synopsis: Veronica (Sarah Michelle Gela) is a 28-year-old young woman. In the eyes of others, she was undoubtedly a "successful person" – with a beautiful face, a stable job and a comfortable home, things that many people could not get in their lifetimes seemed to Veronica as if they were born. However, only Veronica herself knew that the black hole in her heart could not be filled by no amount of money and material, and how much pain she had to endure in a lonely and indifferent world to survive each boring and tedious day. Finally, Veronica, who couldn't bear it, made a decision, and she decided to die. It seems that even the god of death is particularly tolerant of Veronica, and after passing through the ghost gate, she was finally saved by advanced medical technology, but the doctor told Veronica that due to the drug, her heart was greatly damaged, and there may not be much time, and it is this life that is getting closer and closer to death that makes Veronica have a new understanding of life.