August Osage County

The film, based on a play by the same name, shows a family of broken women. Meryl Streep is glorious as the matriarch. There are men in the film too, but their role is rather limited-- they commit suicide, leave or turn out be half-brothers. The film is realistic and believable and hence, it induces a worrisome point -- are we at some level saying that this is what really happens to the men and women of our time?
It probably is so, as that is how much we have nurtured our frailties.
In a time when god was not yet discovered, we were scared of nature, did the best we could to appease nature and not invoke its fury. After god was discovered, we became less scared and assertive in our actions. As what had scared us in the past is what we must capture, and kill and put away behind us, we enthusiastically started doing that.
At some point, we outgrew god too as we were wont to -- what with our fascinating brains-- and are now caught in a spot of bother. Where our past fears have come back to haunt us (read: climate change is real) and we have absolutely no one to turn to.
If we started dedicating more resources, time and energy towards the self, it was for this time. If each man to his own, it is actually a good thing as groups of men (or women as in the case of August Osage County), we are known to be more prone to invoking disasters.