Important question I've been meaning to ask...
 

Have you ever played a game or watched a movie, which after finishing, made you feel empty? Like you loved it and afterwards you feel this hollow sensation and feel like you won't see such a great film ever again. And this feeling lasts for days...

For videos games, this happened to me with Batman Arkham City. After finishing it I felt so hollow, like I never wanted it to end.

And for movies, this happened to me after watching Little Miss Sunshine, 50 First Dates (just 'cause it's Sandler doesn't mean it's not awesome), Kickass. But most recently, I felt like this after watching 'Her'. I mean, I didn't exactly feel sad, or happy, I just say hollow (I keep using this word often) and this feeling lasted for days, slowly fading away daily.

And this doesn't happen to be while watching a really good movie. I love Pulp Fiction and GTA 5 yet I felt perfectly normal after finishing them. And it doesn't happen to me while watching full on tragedies either.

I'm just curious whether others here experience the same feeling and whether you guys could recommend some movies where you felt the same.

Well i wouldnt say that i have a "hollow" feeling, but most of my favorite movies I have to kind of sit in silence for a while and just think about what I just saw. To soak everything in I guess. Especially if they're just emotionally exhausting.

Mulholland Drive, Cosmopolis, and Lost in Translation are examples off the top of my head. I still think of scenes in those movies quite a bit. Hm come to think of it if someone had a gun to my head those would be my top 3 movies probably.

I have on occasion felt a certain loss of what to do with myself after completing an epic and brilliant videogame, simply because it became a regular and enjoyable habit, but that's just me being stupid and a sign I should get out the house. I don't think it's a healthy feeling.

I feel a deep sense of loss after touring any historical area/museum with pieces still intact from days passed. Once I leave those places, I feel completely gutted.

I feel empty after reading certain books, like Nabokov's Lolita, or Joyce Carol Oates' Zombie, but that's because the narrator's mind was so awful to get into that it left me feeling empty inside for days. Never finished either of those books because they were draining the life out of me.

I don't get this with films and I don't really play video games, but I definitely get this feeling with books. I guess it's because films are shorter and they're easier and take less time to revisit. I don't tend to reread books.

Though I have to say, after I finished binge watching Twin Peaks and Lost, I had no idea what to do with my life.

I'd say Requiem for a Dream did this to me pretty hard.

Certain particularly engrossing video games can give me a similar feeling but for a different reason, and I guess it's because I never wanted it to end like OP said. I connect with characters more in games, so when I wrap up a wonderful tale with great characters like Ni No Kuni or something I'll feel kind of depressed for a couple days usually.

Reading Never Let Me Go practically killed me.

That's what I loved about Mass Effect. I had all three games to play back-to-back-to-back. Every time I beat one game I had an entire new one to play that directly connected to the one before it, and by the time I got to the end of 3 it had been long enough that I wanted to play the first one again, restarting the entire cycle. I did that for several months last year.

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