10 Movies Designed To Give You An Existential Crisis
1. Click
Though marketed as just another frothy Adam Sandler joint, Click engages with some surprisingly heavy existential themes - namely mortality and regret - in an unexpectedly affecting way.
Go on, admit it - Click made you cry.
Despite the inherent absurdity of a movie where Adam Sandler receives a magical remote which allows him to fast-forward through life's boring and painful moments, Click is a shockingly sturdy testament to the preciousness of everything that life has to offer.
Even at its most mundane and anguished, life is a gift worth living through, and so the remote's fast-forward function servers as an apt metaphor for how easy it is to simply drift through life on auto-pilot while waiting for the highlights.
Click potently warns that, if you're not careful, you'll be old and lamenting all the time you squandered in your youth, that you didn't spend more of it with your loved ones.
It loops back to the old adage that nobody ever wished they spent more time in the office while on their deathbed. Click may not be subtle, but it sure does get the job done in an impressively emotional way.