What Everyone Expected: A chirpy, feel-good film about what it means to be happy, and how awesome it is to feel so good about your life. What Actually Happened: Shock maestro Todd Solondz served up arguably the most dementedly dark social satire of the last twenty years, exploring the quest of various disillusioned folks to attain happiness, covering such cheery subjects as incest, pedophilia, lewd phone calls, suicide, romantic rejection, and there's even a scene where a dog eats some semen. Anyone who went in expecting a good time was sure to be left scarred for life, and for those who got some perverse enjoyment out of it all, the title only adds to the grimly ironic humour throughout. What It Should Have Been Called: It's a perfect title if you were aware of Solondz's work before watching it (or just bothered to read the damn synopsis), but otherwise, Misery Loves Company seems like a simple yet effective fit.
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