To feel sad after watching the Downton Abbey film

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We have been (re) watching Downton Abbey back to back on Netflix instead of news. Then we saw the final film.

I enjoyed the film, but it made me feel sad really. I'm 54 and it's probably just down to aging, empty nest and other minor life stresses

What was the element that struck you as saddest?
It made me miss my grandmother and it made me want a Downton Abbey the World War Two years (I think it was designed to make us want this)

Haven’t watched it yet but I felt sad rewatching the earlier series having seen the later ones so I imagine the final sign off is going to be very moving. It’s about time passing, never to be regained. It makes me think of generations who were there when I was a child that are now long gone.

Yes thank you. Inhad nonidea how i felt after watching the movie, thank you for putting into words so eloquently how I feel. It s exactly that.

i go back to my 80s/90s childhood and although it was not a breezy childhood, i loved going to my grand mothers house, the fires, the stories, the long meals at the table, the fun with all the cousins…

i would say the last movie and those souvenirs are like autumn: a beautiful time with beautiful colours and then the leaves fall one by one… it s melancolic and beautiful, the smell of apple cooking and fire cracking.

I found it sad at the end. My gran died last year and it made me think of her and miss the relationship we had.

Just looking back over everyone you've loved in your life who is gone. I felt there was more looking back at the end than forward and that the future for the main character at the end felt lonely and not optimistic. That's why I found it sad.

My mum however thought it tied up all the loose ends very neatly and didn't find it sad at all.

I did find it emotional as its final one. Loved the characters.

I missed it at the cinema, I’m thinking it might be one to watch at Christmas, after a sherry or several.

I’ve been reluctant to watch it. Downton was my guilty pleasure which I used to watch with mum, all snuggled up on the sofa. My mum died this summer. Then the last film came out. I do really want to watch it because, well, it’s Downton! Also it’s the little things like this that act as bridges to people and memories. Downton has been on our screens for such a long time. It’s bittersweet, this curtain call on something that’s been so warm, fuzzy, and familiar.

I also used to watch it with my late DM. She had dementia and she watched the same episodes over and over. It really seemed to give her pleasure, and I think it’s because it reflected her own early life.

Myself and DD went to see it in the cinema and balled our eyes out.

Seeing everyone aging and things changing so much. It really was successful in showing the passage of time and how things change. So bittersweet.

Loved, loved it. Balled my eyes out.
I thought it was clever, funny and sentimental. Pleased there was a few happy afters.