'P.S. I love you.'
'A Single Man'
Both films are good at expressing how someone copes or doesn't cope with the loss of a loved one. Only 'P.S. I love you' has a happy ending, but 'A Single Man' deals both with a homosexual relationship and how they are trying to kill themselves. My idea is a combination of both, how after a time, their health declines, and even if they wanted to keep on living wouldn't be able to. The idea behind it is that there is a theme of loneliness relating to the main character, no one calls to ask if he is alright, or whether there is anything they can do, there are no messages on his phone or answering machine, and that is the key difference with the story, because in both films mentioned above, the main characters have other people who come and try to help cope with the loss.
Thinking about this, the main character may have only been able to get along with the one person who is now no longer there, such as in 'Downton Abbey' when Matthew Crawley dies, Mary believes that he was the only one who knew her true nature, so this could help build the main character's personality.
There are many more films which have dealt with grief and loss, and a website I found has a list of films which I will try to watch some of to get a bit more inspiration.
Links:
http://content6.flixster.com/movie/11/17/00/11170048_det.jpg
http://media4.popsugar-assets.com/files/ons3/166/1668379/51_2009/6fc4b9dd4fca2aa8_a-single-man-poster-1.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/12/article-0-1BC34CFF000005DC-918_634x521.jpg
http://www.whatsyourgrief.com/64-movies-about-grief-and-loss/
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