It is a face like the terrible dim faces known in dreams–sexless and white, with two gray crossed eyes which are turned inward so sharply that they seem to be exchanging with each other one long and secret gaze of grief.” What emerges is a breathtaking bow before the central paradox of the human experience — the awareness that the heart’s enormous capacity for love is matched with an equal capacity for pain, and yet we love anyway and somehow find fragments of that love even amid the ruins of loss. In case those previous two sentences weren’t enough of a hint of what lies in store in The Sadness, now feels like as good of a time as any to say that Jabbaz’s film is one of the most violent and grotesque horror movies of recent memory. The film consistently pushes its violence to extremes that will likely be too far for most moviegoers to bear, and there are moments in it when it feels like The Sadness is the bloodiest horror movie that has been released since 2019’s famously blood-soaked It Chapter Two. What it does purport to be, what it does do is tell a bit of Rosen's own story: the fact that his son Eddie died, how he feels sad and angry about it. Sometimes he wants to talk. Sometimes he doesn't: he just wants "to think about it on my own". Why? "Because it's mine. And no one else's." It’s bewildering,” Rosen says, when I ask about his parents’ response. “It’s in the book, really, because I’m looking at how they coped with that trauma.” Rosen grew up in a flat in Pinner, northwest London; both of his parents were teachers. He describes his mother as “in many ways extraordinary”. Of her refusal to discuss Alan, he says, “It’s incredibly gutsy, but at the same time quite worrying that she thought she couldn’t, or shouldn’t, mention it.” Rosen never quizzed his mother on the issue; she died at 56. “She wasn’t a hard woman. She was the soft one, hardly ever got angry with us, whereas the old man sometimes lost his rag. But there must have been some inner grit to make that decision. We would now think that it’s not a great idea – the general consensus seems to be, ‘OK, you don’t have to let it all hang out, but you can say it, you can talk about it.”

It's central to what he's talking about. He mentions it right at the beginning of the story, saying he's sad a lot because his boy is dead. He wishes he could talk to his mom about it, but she's dead too.Wow I didn't think I could have such a reaction to a picture book as an adult. Honest and moving, absolutely recommended.

I've been there, many times. Hope you have not. This very well illustrated book says it all, the smiling and pretending to be happy, the anger of them leaving, the memories, the photograph books, wanting to speak to them or about them to others that are gone too....or just wanting to keep it all private....and scream!a b c d Everington, Keoni (18 January 2021). "Taiwan-made zombie movie creeps into theaters Friday". Taiwan News . Retrieved 15 August 2021. In Getting Better, Rosen describes the moment he discovered a photograph of a baby boy sitting on his mother’s knee. When he asked his father who the boy was, Rosen or his older brother, Brian, his father said neither – that it was a third son, Alan, who had died as an infant, before Rosen was born. Rosen was 10 at the time. Nobody in his family had spoken of Alan previously, there were no photographs of him in the house. And though Rosen’s father, Harold, mentioned Alan from time to time over the course of his life, Rosen never spoke about him with his mother, Connie. The Ballad of the Sad Caféby Carson McCullerswas first published in 1951. The original book (shown at right) included, in addition to the title novella, Carson’s other major works of fiction. In later editions, the title novella is presented with six short stories, as follows: Contrary to what most horror movie viewers might assume, The Sadness’ infected are not just another garden-variety form of zombies. While rabid and crazed in the way that most movie zombies are, the infected in The Sadness are totally sentient and intelligent, but are nonetheless driven to carry out as much sexual and physical violence against their fellow citizens as they can. They’re capable of running and speaking, which just makes their all-consuming cruelty that much more difficult to watch.

Sad means go somewhere, call your doctor, get a prescription or something, just go away with that nasty business. I'm not opposed to talking to my son about death. But I wasn't ready for it right then. And I don't think at the age of 5 it's really productive to discuss it in terms of how badly his death would ruin me emotionally.Ever since George Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead turned a monster movie into a meditation on institutional racism, zombie movies have been one of the horror genre’s most effective vehicles for sociological observations: Dawn of the Dead takes down consumer culture, while Shaun of the Dead parodies the soul-killing nature of routine work and life. But that doesn’t mean every zombie movie has to take on big topics about the state of humanity. With The Sadness, Shudder’s new Taiwanese sort-of-a-zombie-movie, freshman Canadian writer-director Rob Jabbaz certainly wants to join the ranks of those classics. But he can’t find the proper measure of finesse and shamelessness to marry his grotesque gore and violence to, given the moral lessons he seems to think he’s obligated to offer. So... yeah. Is this a great book? Yes. Absolutely. It's honest and emotional. But reading it now, as a father, I don't enjoy it nearly as much, and I don't think it's a good book for young children, despite it being in picture book format.

It has now been 23 years since Eddie’s death. For the most part, Rosen has succeeded in escaping incapacitation. “I’ve tried not to be burdened by it,” he says. “I talk in the book about ‘carrying the elephant’.” Rosen hands me a postcard replica of an engraving of a man struggling to carry an elephant up a hill. “I bought that in Paris,” he goes on, “and it’s a great reminder. You know, I’m not carrying an elephant. At the time I thought I was. Eddie’s dead and I’m carrying all this grief and it’s bigger than me – it’s as big as an elephant. But not any more. Even with this Covid thing, or with any of that other stuff, I’m still not carrying an elephant. So this picture, it inspires me.” The Sadness ( Chinese: 哭悲; pinyin: Kū Bēi) is a 2021 Taiwanese body horror film written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Rob Jabbaz in his feature film directorial debut. [1] It stars Berant Zhu and Regina as a Taiwanese couple who attempt to reunite amidst a viral pandemic that turns people into homicidal maniacs. [2] Produced by Machi Xcelsior Studios and producer David Barker, The Sadness received a theatrical release in Taiwan on 22 January 2021. [3] The film premiered internationally at the 74th Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland on 12 August 2021. [4] Plot [ edit ]

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At the 2021 Fantasia International Film Festival, The Sadness won the award for Best Film in the New Flesh competition for first features. [11]