Beautiful sad plots

I watched the movie "Atonement" tonight. A devastating tragic story with music and stunning visual effects to make it all the more powerful. I wondered if it would be boring, but I wasn't bored at all. I felt lost in the world of the characters, something I very rarely can do except when reading a novel.

Speaking of, I am also reading a great albeit sad memoir right now by Abigail Thomas called "A Three Dog Life." I stumbled across it at the Friday Harbor/San Juan Islands bookstore last weekend on one of the display tables. I like memoirs and I like dogs. Sold.

I have an attraction to sad plots. I think it's because there's so much more raw emotion to take in from a sad story than a plain and simple happy one. Stories that make me think and feel are better than cookie cutter Hollywood beginnings and endings.