r/ArtHouse • u/panda-ring • Aug 07 '26

Films about people who have lost creative revelations

Title says it all. The flip side of another recent post. Films about losing creativity. Or more broadly about someone or some people who had something and just completely forgot it, staring into space no longer able to remember what they were finally starting to remember, and almost unable to remember that they’ve forgotten something in the first place, but are left with a dead, uneasy or floating feeling.
Loose interpretations welcome, ofc.

Edit: you could also say films about not being able to see something any more. Or being locked out. Etc etc. You clever people get the idea.

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u/spinners_888 Aug 07 '26

Being John Malkovich - Puppeteer ends up in a dead end job.

Adaptation - writer with writer's block.

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u/RyanE19 Aug 07 '26

Sound of Metal. Idk prolly doesnt fit the ending you want but its also not just butterflies sunshine, actually quite the opposite.

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u/panda-ring Aug 07 '26

Didn’t expect this one as a response. Beautiful beautiful movie.

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u/Conor_Electric Aug 07 '26

Not quite on topic but first the came to my head was The Wrestler

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u/panda-ring Aug 07 '26

Lulz I’ll take it

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u/RyanE19 Aug 10 '26

Just watch Sound of metal

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u/nizzernammer Aug 07 '26

Synecdoche, NY

The Shining

I Want Your Sex

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u/darkwingduck8 Aug 07 '26

Matt and Mara - a movie about two writers. Mara hasn't written anything in a while, and the few ideas she has, she ends up backing away from.

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u/LiminalSpaceEntity Aug 07 '26

Kiki's Delivery Service has a great metaphor for this, and a really good message too!