I don't love stuff where everyone is apathetic. Badlands, Breathless, and On the Road ring a bell, if I'm remembering right. Also some literature you'd consider the foundations of existentialism. Apathy in these contexts is billed as profound. Apathetic existentialism never came off to me as the profound existentialism. In my Existentialism Through Literature and Film course I remember thinking "why are we watching Razor's Edge instead of Synecdoche or Interstellar?" Synecdoche and Interstellar are emotionally over-the-top... I'm not saying that's the essence of their existentialism... but their emotional landscape inspired me to act out against the void, where the other pieces I mentioned left me feeling hopeless against it.
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