Is it normal to feel empty after you finish a film

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Do any of you ever get a seemingly perpetual feeling of emptiness after an especially empathetic or simply heartwarming film? Perhaps it was so completely engrossing the idea that you may never experience a feeling like that again is soul destroying, or am I just an idiosyncratic idiot. This is of topic but i'm rather shy so hello everyone. Anyway hope this post was decorous enough for this fine website and its very strict uploading rules ;)

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  • shuggy-chan
    11 years ago

    I feel empty after I finish a film too, but that I'd normally cause I just shot my load in her face

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    • pigflyingpig
      11 years ago

      Glad someone got what I was going for here

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  • kingofcarrotflowers
    11 years ago

    I have that with a select few films. I also had it with bioshock infinite, I got through it too quickly, I got it in the evening stayed up all night and finished it in the morning. When I started it again I felt that way because it doesn't have the same impact or immersion when you explore columbia the 2nd time

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    • Anime7
      11 years ago

      Bioshock man, I know where you're coming from. Although I mainly felt it with the first one. Andrew Ryan, what a dream that guy had.

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      • kingofcarrotflowers
        11 years ago

        Yeah the first one's an incredible game

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        • Anime7
          11 years ago

          I'm not even joking when I say that I was obsessed with that game for like 3 month after I beat it. The only reason I stopped obsessing over it was because Bioshock 2 was free on the ps3 store, haha.

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          • kingofcarrotflowers
            11 years ago

            Yeah that was a good game too I think it gets a lot of stick because it wasn't as good as the first but I expected that to be honest still a great game

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            • Anime7
              11 years ago

              Ya I know what you mean, my friend kept on warning me that the 2nd game sucks, but it really doesn't.

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    • pigflyingpig
      11 years ago

      I know the feels bro

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  • myboyfriendsbitch
    11 years ago

    I felt that way when I finished season 2 of the Walking Dead on Netflix. I still pretend to see zombies walking through fields when I'm driving. I'll have to wait months to see season 3, dammit!

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    • Terence_the_viking
      11 years ago

      The Walking Dead is awesome I love it just gotta wait till october for season 4.

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      • myboyfriendsbitch
        10 years ago

        Damn you. I have to wait until October just to watch season 3. lol. God knows when I'll be able to watch season 4.

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        • Terence_the_viking
          10 years ago

          Oh ok i will try not to spoil it for you.

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  • Mersaphe
    10 years ago

    Fantastic post and you really have a way with words. It is perfectly normal to feel reflective and contemplative after watching films, in fact they are intended to elicit these emotions in the audience.

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  • ibreathelectric
    10 years ago

    If the movie sucked or had a deadbeat letdown ending, then yes. I feel quite empty inside.

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  • pigflyingpig
    10 years ago

    I understand *hugs* Sometimes the grieving process just takes a little longer.

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  • changes123
    10 years ago

    Rise of the planet of the apes, and Apocalypto definitely had that effect.

    Titanic... when Jack... I'd rather not talk about this. *tear swell*

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  • quickQ
    10 years ago

    happens more with TV series... specially w/ netflix just handing you seasons of it. recently finished adventure time (yes, i am an adult who has no shame of that) and i constantly cradle myself to sleep (ok, not really.. but you get the point)

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  • handsignals
    11 years ago

    Yes, yes I do.

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