HELL IS EXPENSIVE

Hollywood routinely confuses tragedy with importance. That is, filmmakers (and some critics) regularly and oddly think that dark, depressing, evil, suicide, etc, means a film is significant. It's simply not true. The Dark Knight, about a man who thinks he is a bat, was praised by critics as if it was written by Albert Camus. Hitchcock sent up all this Hollywood pseudo stuff years ago with his masterpiece trailer for Psycho, where he looks at the toilet in the infamous bathroom and says: terrible things happened here. However, in this jugular vein, Kate Winslet, a wonderful thespian, suicides in both her pictures this year. Or as her film husband, Leonardo DeCaprio, says in one film: She did it to herself! (or words to that effect). Will Smith apparently kills himself in a movie as well. The one positive thing about all this is it tends to inhibit a sequel. Hell is expensive to portray on film. If the filmmakers are atheists, then of course there would be no sequel, or at least not with the "suicidee."