Uncombed thoughts

Reading different stories: I noticed that some stories (like mine, for example) - it's pure escaping from real life (when real life is too depressing), and others are just the opposite. They expose a problem, create a terrible end, for some it is hard to read. Probably, only the latter is literature, immersion into life. But others don't want it.

I wonder why in the ninety seventies every movie had a bad ending, and now — there are only happy endings? However, of course, there are some sad stories, but like in the Titanic — with beautiful music and luxurious TV camera work. Is cinema art degenerating? The situation reminds me a brilliant children story from “Neznaika in the Sunny City”, where the artist first painted a couple of real portraits, and then the girls began to persuade him to make a mouth smaller, and their eyes larger. And he ended up making portraits using a pattern. This is modern Hollywood. There is a number of templates that "work" and which fit modern cinema standards have been revealed. Do the same, but different, as Blake Snyder said, describing Hollywood scripts.