Why do guys always suffer in movies?

This is not a theory. It’s more an observation of sorts. In a love story, be it books, plays and more specifically movies, the guy has to suffer. ALWAYS THE GUY.

Devdas, who died? The guy. Romeo and Juliet. Juliet isn’t even dead yet and that morbid son of a gun poisons himself to death! Titanic. Di Cap freezes to death. Inception is technically a love story. I mean, why is Di Cap so screwed? He is suffering from love of his wife! Well, he essentially did get her killed, but the whole movie was made coz of Di Cap suffering! In The Dark Knight, Batman suffers the death of Rachel Dawes. Ghajini, SHE dies. He goes all cuckoo! Hell! He can’t even remember to put on his underwear! So ultimately, on celluloid, it is of paramount importance that the guy suffers. P.S I Love You. Well, the guy dies and the girl is all sad and trying to get on with life. So, it looks like the girl is in pain! But nope! Look closer. The movie is about the pain the guy feels while writing those letter for his wife. He knows he is dying. He knows he will not be around. That knowledge is the pain! He suffers before she does coz he is still around and is helping her to get over him! I mean, imagine a guy writing a letter to the love of his life and slowly, lovingly telling her to get over him! The guy suffers! 500 Days of Summer, a beautiful movie, by the way- a fact that a good friend of mine would vehemently agree with. In this movie, Tom Hansen is in pain. He gets drunk and quits and gets screwed. The guy suffers.Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind. Jim Carrey is in pain througout the movie, while he is trying to save the last memory of Kate Winslet in his mind!

The reason to this whole phenomenon is simple. This world is a primarily male dominated society and it is much more logical and reasonable to see the guy suffer for love. It is heroic! It would obviously be weird to see Asin, topless, bald, tattooed all over and killing people. Well, yeah! It would have been a bigger blockbuster than Ghajini, but it would just be a sad case of an Adam Sandler-esque porno gone wrong!

There are movies with a female protagonist suffering, but you will usually have a lesbian playing that lead role. So yeah! :D

Guys always suffer.
Q.E.D