My thoughts on Carl, and the generalized, artificial movie

There are a few points that I would like to make or simply point towards.

It is shown that Carl was very much in love with his wife, but it is contradictory that he is so unhappy (with strong anger and bitterness) after she is gone. One does not truly lose something they love, as long as one has faith and keeps it alive in one's heart.

His character towards the corporate people is unjust, as they were only doing business and they offered him double the price for his house, and they did not use any unjust tactics to get him out of there. At least not that any are shown. He is is not happy to meet or see people, except his childhood hero. His attitude towards younger children is pretty clear and if I were permitted to speculate, it would not be too arrogant to say that it was because he could not have children himself that he behaves this way, since one cannot simply be bitter and angry towards others because one's beloved has passed away.

A loving person does not behave this way. It is selfish only to love one thing or person, and be bitter to others if is gone. Carl cannot be held in the sight of children as a noble man.

Ty.

[And Edit after nearly 2 years]

Thank you for your replies and opinions. Unfortunately I am was not a recurring visitor of the site as a forum member and have only just recently seen your replies. Looking back at what I wrote I would like to reiterate and clarify my standpoint and own opinion which I presented to you. Hopefully this will be enough to let everyone know my mind.

Carl, first of all, who has loved a person sincerely his entire life is shown to have no loving friends or family (and to argue that they have died at this point is a bad argument imo, for friends and family can be of all ages, and if one is loving towards them and caring, they will look after you or remember you in your later years). But I let this go because it is possible that he, in his depression locked himself up and isolated himself ( but even then such a person will be found by his caring others), but altogether his entire personality towards society (as he often laughs at other's pain in the movie), shows to me that he became rather a sadist.

It was just very surprising for me to see this Carl who is still a child nearing the end of his life, who cannot handle seeing love go, not so much as to see it go, and go into a depression or feel pain, but to become such a negative person which becomes a harm to entire society. I totally understand that he is going UP in his life, but this DOWN was quite artificial and shallow.

In summary point is this: It is COMPLETELY justified, and quite HUMAN to fall into depression on the loss of a beloved, but, did you see how Carl behaved with children, with Russell? I'm not saying he not be slightly bitter, sad or depressed. I say he not sadistically laugh at the misery of others or diss children.

On another category,

I would like to quote a philosopher who says something about the selfishness of a couple loving each other (and please do not view me as a Carl or sadist, a person who is whining because he has lost love, for I am an optimist and a great fan of love)

"The intoxication of self-feeling is the most intense, and the height of this intoxication is most admired. Love and friendship are the very height of self-feeling, the I intoxicated in the other-I. The more securely the two I's come together to become one I, the more this united I selfishly cuts itself off from all others."
- Soren Kierkegaard

and another:

"Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practiced at the expense of all others."
- Friedrich Nietzsche


I thank you again for your opinions.

N.B.: Along with all of this, another fundamental problem I have with the movie is the commercial element and the generalization:

I understand this is a Disney movie for children, but the way they make Carl into a bad person after his wife passes away creates an awful black and white contrast and gives a very artificial look to it, as if it were deliberately done by writers to win audiences and their sympathies, which I believe demeans actual depression and behavior which might occur after a loved passes away, and one's whole subjective experience.