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While comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour and films in this style traditionally have a happy ending, tragic films take laughter from the audience with very depressing endings. If you are interested in the most tragic film endings of all time, here are some movies that you should consider:
1. Titanic (1997)
"Titanic" is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. That is a fictionalized story about the sinking of RMS Titanic with two main characters named Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater. They come from different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. No matter how sad it is, the legend "Titanic" is still one of the best tragic films which are successful in tearing audiences’ heart. At the end of the film, pitifully, while Rose is clinging to a plank for survival, Jack becomes stiff with cold.
"Titanic" is one of the most tragic movie endings of all time with the obsessive lesson that love can’t help people defeat the pains in life, at least, overcome the huge iceberg
Most Tragic Film Endings: Titanic - "I'm Flying" Scene
2. The Butterfly Effect (2004)
The film is an American thriller film in 2004 written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. Its title refers to the metaphoric butterfly effect, a popular principle in chaos theory which states that in any dynamic system, small initial differences may over time lead to large unforeseen consequences. It has sad endings that the character Evan put an end for his relationship Kayleigh when he was young to avoid corollary of future in theater version. However, everything becomes more terrible when Evan comes back while he’s unborn and kills himself with the umbilical cord.
“You will have a better life without me, so I end my life.” is a strong and severe message from “The Butterfly Effect”
3. Donnie Darko (2001)
"Donnie Darko" is a 2001 surrealist psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly. The film describes the reality-bending adventures of Donnie Darko as he seeks the meaning and significance behind his troubling Doomsday-related visions. This thriller movie has a very tragic ending that Donnie Darko decides to sacrifice his life for keeping everything fine after understanding about time circle’s nature that he gets stuck in. It is actually unfair for Donnie Darko to have a tragic result while Jim Cunningham is outlaw.
A scene in the tragic film "Donnie Darko"
4. Atonement (2007)
Both two main characters Robbie and Cecilia were dead in the World War II and they had never been reunited. "Atonement" is considered as one of the most tragic film endings of all time.
Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in "Atonement", directed by Joe Wright
5. Revolutionary Road (2008)
Based on a novel by Richard Yates, "Revolutionary Road" talks about a young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s. They have to struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. At the end of the movie, April Wheeler’s wish to live in Paris is broken due to her husband. She lets things run their course, takes away her foetus and pays the price by her own life, and leaves her husband alone with hopelessness.
April Wheeler, the main character of "Revolutionary Road"
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About the Author:
John Stevens is an Internet marketer and freelance photographer. He likes collecting photographs of celebrities, posting breaking news and writing articles to comment on outstanding events in the field of entertainment.
Articles Source: Most Tragic Film Endings
