Looking for movie that has a good plot. Has a guy who is has to sacrifice his own happiness in order to fulfill family obligations.
Michael Corleone gave up a life of peace and a likely prospect for a happy future to protect his family, he killed two guys including a big shot cop and had to flee the country for a year because everyone was after him.
shareMost movies actually advocate against sacrificing your happiness for your family, or pretend to. But they all have unrealistic messages like "If you make yourself happy, your family will be happy, too", which isn't how families work. Families are made up of people who are as selfish as any other human, most people are happy to see another family member sacrifice their own happiness for theirs, because basically all people think their own happiness matters most.
The "Godfather" movies are a good one. Another is "What's Eating Gilbert Grape", made back when Johnny Depp could act (in films). The lead character is stuck in a small town with a supermorbidly obese mother and a delayed brother who has no other caregiver, but again the movie offers unrealistic happy endings.
Man Otter, this is a depressing take. It canโt be this bad in your family can it? Come on now.
shareActually, my family is rather worse than that, bad enough that I don't see much of them these days. Which is only one reason I'm a bit cynical about human relationships, the big reason there is that I keep my eyes open and see how humans really interact. For instance, I've seen a lot of elder care, and that's one area where the average family is happy to see one family member give up their career, financial well-being, and personal happiness to be a caregiver, and the caregiver gets no financial recompense from the family and usually a ton of criticism as well. And then there's the families with physically and mentally disabled children...
However, if Hollywood ever addresses situations like this, such as elder care, then the protagonist who sacrifices their happiness for an aged parent will end up bonding with the parent and working out old issues, meeting Mr. or Ms. Right, rekindling home-town friendships, buying into a local business that makes them rich, and then the elderly parent dies once they're of no more use to the plot.
RoboCop (1987)
shareNothing in Common (1986)
That's easy! Encanto. It's a Disney animation. I'd like to tell you more, but nobody talks about Bruno.
shareOh, I talk so much about Bruno that you can scarcely believe it. ๐
Really though, family is really important in Latin America.
And I would say that "Coco" was much worse than "Encanto" about that message.
Not about sacrifice for their own family but still sacrifice. โPay it Forwardโ is like an own goal in my opinion, the people in the movie pay good deeds back by doing a deed for someone else.
From memory it gets some of them killed.
Moral of story: Mind your own business.