I need that dramatic sad music lol
Because most of the time, the reveal immediately results in a magical resolution of decades of behavioral issues stemming from the trauma.
Which never happens in real life. A reveal is a huge step in the healing process but it doesn’t mean the issue goes away. Maybe we cope better, maybe we regress maybe we relapse. But its seldom the clean outcome in the movies.
I mean I just want a friend to give me a hug and emphathise with me. But instead I had my own mother LAUGH about it. And shitty “therapists” reading from an instruction manual like a fucking robot. Fuck “Filial Piety”.
Everything I think of the word “China”, the first thing that comes up in mind is my abusive parents and older brother, and the government’s attempt to get rid of me, because I’m the “extra” one that wasn’t supposed to be born according to their vision of absolute totalitarian control, one child policy lolol they can’t even enforce their stupid laws. Fuck CCP.
I wanna just run away, but I’m too tired. The system is collapsing. Immigrants in the US are being purged. I don’t even have the mental capacity to handle a job. I need medications, but I keep getting pushed around like a ping pong, “you’re too fucked up for us to handle, here are a list of referrals”, fuck your “talk therapy”, I need to fix my chemical imbalance.
I really need to go back in time and just snap this Confucious motherfucker out of existance, stupid filial piety plagueing the world.
Fiction also usually includes a flashback to see how horrific it was, and then it cuts back to the person telling the story, as though they just finished describing everything that happened. In reality, nobody can ever describe a scene in such detail, and while you are reliving the moment, everyone else just hears you say what happened.
That’s a good observation.
I had the opposite experience. I was laughing about it and then realised no one else was.
Oh, oops.
A couple of weeks back I saw my boss hadn’t eaten all her lunch. She said it was because her mother had made it, and always tried to give her too much; just like when she was little.
I replied that my childhood habit was to clear the plate every time, just in case there wasn’t enough next time. She laughed because she thought I was making a joke, and then went really quiet.
Yeah.
When you tell a funny story from your childhood but instead of laughing, your friend hugs you and says “I’m so sorry you went through that” :
Lol I was gonna say, the dramatic music would really ruin the punchline
Or would it enhance it through ironic dissonance?
sad trombone noises
You could always punch a semi detailed account of your experience into https://goblin.tools/Formalizer set to “more passionate” or even “more sarcastic” and see if that grips your audience more. Then find a cafe or store that plays music, wait for a sad song to come on and let it rip.
No sad background music in real life.
In a world where we all have phones, I see no reason we all can’t have sad violin music at the ready for these occasions.
you aren’t on tv
and don’t have professional writers for the script, or directors framing the scene, or a 3rd person view of others’ reactions where the best one is selected from multiple takes
