Minus the whole “memory erasing” thing, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is shockingly similar to how my marriage played out in terms of how my personality and hers shifted over time.
I’ve never lived in Utah, and we had goths instead of mods, but SLC Punk was a fairly accurate representation of how I grew up, and the people I grew up with. Right down to how the singer (who was straightedge except for his bi-polar meds) in my first band died.
Indiana Jones.
Probably.
Gattaca.
The IT Crowd pretty nicely explains a good portion of my work day. 90% of it is either restarting things, signing out of and into things, and explaining fairly simple things in simple ways for people who I hope are very good at what they do because they definitely aren’t good with tech.
I am literally Mimi from Survive Style 5+.
spoiler
___maybe not literally
I relate to Dexter pretty hard except for the need to murder.
Yeah…Trailer Park Boys was pretty great.
This, pretty much. But that’s also just called living on the Dartmouth side of the HRM for any length of time.
Reservation Dogs. I’m not native American (well a little by blood), but I found the depiction of small town life and family to be really similar to life around my rural area.
Haunting of Hill House has some incredible depictions of some of the outcomes of angst and depression. The scene right after the car scare, where Theo just jumps out of the car and has a breakdown where she’s trying to describe how she feels hits hard.
Also, the movie Christine (not the one about the car) was so spot on with its utterly brutal depiction of depression and anxiety that I’m literally afraid to watch it ever again. It’s an unbelievably good performance from the talented Rebecca Hall.
Forgot if I had anything more relevent, but Recency Bias: I’m currentlt watching this Taiwan TV show called: 你的孩子不是你的孩子
It’s about dysfunctional families… like my own.
(Still haven’t finished watching yet)
The show is slightly more extreme than my reality, but there are various parts that I find very relevent… like the way parents talk to their kids… parent-child dynamics…
It has some aspects from each episode that feels like my family, not exactly the same, but it resonates. The main difference is it being in Mandarin, instead of Cantonese that I speak at home.
Rocky, I’m just not an amateur fighter who has to beat idk Anthony Joshua. But I guess it’s a very “basic” human tale that resonates with most of us, hence its popularity!
House MD particularly those moments where the bravado and snark break.
They do a good job explaining parasitic infections a lot, and how they affect the human body. Apparently, Dr. House was a parasitologist in this series.
Good Willing Hunting, A Monster Calls, Spiderman 3, Bojack Horseman, Lord of the Rings, and Little Miss Sunshine. All of them have characters struggling with their identity, life circumstances, dreams/goals in life, relationships, insecurities, and they learn to adapt. Top fav is Spiderman 3 as Peter learns about forgiveness and that it’s okay to ask for help even when he’s superhuman. All these shows/films helped me become a better person and understand who I am because the characters are human, meaning the writers/creators wrote characters to be relatable with struggles they must overcome, especially Peter Parker.
In terms of identity? Eh. None.
I’m my own particular kind of screwed up. I’m a nerd that doesn’t fit in with nerds. I’m an artist that doesn’t fit in with artists. I love science but I’d never want to be a scientist.
Even characters I previously thought were pillars of my identity were darlings in need of killing. (Raistlin Majere in my mid-late teens as an example. He didn’t survive my early 20’s.)
Never met anyone quite like me and never read nor watched anyone quite like me. A favourite who’d be the closest answer to this question (who still is nothing like me, not even close) would be Drusas Achamian from Bakker’s Second Apocalypse.
To quote him,
He frowned at the lyrics of Protathis, finding them overwrought even though they had seemed to speak his soul’s own tongue twenty years earlier.No one has spoken my soul’s own tongue, not really.
In a completely opposite answer, in terms of life experiences? Hell this’ll earn me some downvotes but it’s amusingly/sadly true.
I think Ryan Reynolds callbacks and 4th wall breaks have a weirdly good habit of landing with me. We’re fairly near enough in age that Deadpool and Free Guy gave me some chuckles. Him referencing Blade 2 was a deep cut lol.
