Why do movies with happy endings make me cry, but movies with sad endings don’t?

[Vermilioncore]

Idk how to explain it but let’s say there’s a movie about a happy couple who love each other. One of them dies and the other one ends up killing himself too. The movie ends with some sad violin song. That wouldn’t be sad for some reason.

Now let’s say, for example, something like the ending of “San Junipero” from Black Mirror. It ends with the physical bodies of the lovers choosing to die and their consciousness lives forever in the virtual world where they ride off into the sunset happy to be together forever while the movie ends with some happy song. For some reason, that makes me wanna cry!

 

[darktvamp]

Maybe u are envious of them

 

[Vermilioncore]

Maybe u are envious of them

Maybe. But also it’s just sad. Maybe because I know life has no happiness and the end result is eternal darkness

 

[darktvamp]

Maybe. But also it’s just sad. Maybe because I know life has no happiness and the end result is eternal darkness

Madara type shit

 

[Deleted member 62070]

when the fent gets you pondering

 

[Danish_Retard]

Idk how to explain it but let’s say there’s a movie about a happy couple who love each other. One of them dies and the other one ends up killing himself too. The movie ends with some sad violin song. That wouldn’t be sad for some reason.

Now let’s say, for example, something like the ending of “San Junipero” from Black Mirror. It ends with the physical bodies of the lovers choosing to die and their consciousness lives forever in the virtual world where they ride off into the sunset happy to be together forever while the movie ends with some happy song. For some reason, that makes me wanna cry!

It makes you reflect on your own unhappiness. A brutal contrast.

 

[einzigartig]

Maybe. But also it’s just sad. Maybe because I know life has no happiness and the end result is eternal darkness

life can be happy and the end result is not eternal darkness but either paradise or hell

 

[Manletmachine]

Maybe u are envious of them

There’s no maybe about it bud