To feel happy, a person needs a person, don’t you agree?
Our brains are programmed to think about sociality, so in almost any free minute we think about the people around us and our relationships with them.
Scientists have already proven that sociality is our basic need, which can be compared to the need for food and safety. Therefore, when we are alone for a long period of time, our brain activates the same neural connections as it does for physical pain. If the topic of relationships is interesting to you, I recommend movies that explore this very interesting and important topic.
Movies about relationships
1. Outcast (2000)
Robert Zemeckis’ movie about forced loneliness and a man’s struggle to return to society.
The main character Chuck, played by Tom Hanks, finds himself on a deserted island after an airplane crash. Loneliness and despair force the man to create an interlocutor for himself by drawing a likeness of a man’s face on a ball and all the long years of his stay on the island, sharing with him his joys and hardships, thoughts and experiences.
This movie once again proves that a human being is in dire need of being surrounded by others like himself. And even if sometimes we want to hide from the whole world, very soon we get bored and feel the need for communication and support.
2. 1+1 (2011)
Of course, this movie has been watched and reviewed by many people. The film is based on real events and tells about the relationship between two completely different in status and behavior people, who are randomly brought together by fate.
Formal relations between the “boss” and the hired employee grow into a sincere friendship. It is thanks to this that Philip returns to a sense of joy for life in, and Driss begins to change for the better.
The story won the hearts of millions of viewers, and as a result, the movie was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
3. Her (2013)
The main character of the movie is Theodore. He works in a company that specializes in writing letters on behalf of the customer. He knows how to find the right words to express the feelings of strangers. But when it comes to his own life, he begins to experience colossal problems.
The viewer catches Theodore at a point in his life when the hero is going through a difficult divorce. In an attempt to escape reality, he buys the latest operating system. At first Theodore uses it as an assistant. But time passes, and she becomes his close friend, and later his favorite girl.
The main idea of the movie is based on the idea of how difficult it is for a person to find understanding and warmth.
4. Passengers (2016)
A movie about the unbearability of social isolation and difficult moral choices, a poignant love story set against a fantastic backdrop.
The movie tells about the future, in which people go on a space journey to establish a colony on another planet. The journey to get there takes 120 years. In order for all the passengers to reach their destination safely, they were immersed in a state of artificial sleep. But there is a glitch in the system that causes one of the passengers to awaken.
The “lucky guy” is named Jim. Waking up, he realizes that he has 90 more years to fly and the rest of his life he will have to live alone.
Will the hero cope with such a difficult test?
I suggest you definitely find out by watching this movie.
5. Still Alice (2014)
A movie about a man’s struggle with an illness and his attempt to stay in the real world with his loved ones for as long as possible.
Alice Howland is a professor of linguistics at Harvard University, a happy wife and mother of three daughters. One day she learns that she has Alzheimer’s disease and life is divided into before and after.
Watching the heroine’s story, the audience has the opportunity to realize how important it is in difficult moments of life not to be alone and feel the support of loving people, even when the reality goes out from under their feet.
What other movies of this theme would you recommend to watch?