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What is the most cathartic movie?

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What movie puts the protagonist through the absolute ringer for it to all pay off in the end?

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Muffinfan@feddit.de
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Shawshank Redemption

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theodewere@kbin.social
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i was just talking with somebody about that fact yesterday

edit: specifically it’s Red’s transformation for me that means a lot

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98codes@lemm.ee
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For when you’ve been crawling a river of shit, and need to come out clean

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Xariphon@kbin.social
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Came here for this. Absolute masterpiece.

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fckreddit@lemmy.ml
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In my opinion, V for Vendetta. What Evie Hammond was put through was inexcusable, but I feel like it was worth it in the end.

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Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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Not sure if worth it, but it was definitely a cathartic movie.

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Seraph@kbin.social
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That’s the beauty of it I think. We’re left with this ambiguous feeling about whether the end actually justified the means.

Maybe they did, but surely there was a better way, right? Or was there really not? We can’t know.

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Balinares@pawb.social
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In a way, I think: Little Miss Sunshine.

A movie wherein everything, everything goes horribly wrong, and yet in the end you’re left feeling absurdly good.

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oldGregg@lemm.ee
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One of my favorites

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DebianGuy@lemmy.ml
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Amazing movie. I took Greg Kinnear’s 9 steps seriously for a time. I always loved his conviction.

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Hubi@feddit.de
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Dredd (2012) would be somewhere at the top of my list. I don’t think there are too many movies nowadays that have such a classic “mission accomplished”-style ending.

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∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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This is one of my favourite movies. It did everything perfectly. It was exactly what I wanted.

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thelastknowngod@lemm.ee
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The Big Lebowski… The dude just wanted his rug back.

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fourmat@geddit.social
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Really tied the room together

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perishthethought@lemm.ee
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That’s just like, your opinion, man.

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Paterfamilias01@reddthat.com
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Did it not?

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