The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

One day a man on a boat tricks his wife into getting a beer for him.  Suddenly he is engulfed in a strange mist and a few months later, begins to decrease in size. It's sort of like Stephen King's "Thinner" but without weird   gypsies. He keeps shrinking until he becomes only 3 feet tall. He loses his job and has to sell his story to reporters because he has no way of making income. However, his wife seems perfectly capable of working.

"Wahh! My husband is so tiny and his penis is slightly smaller than usual! My life is so painful!"

Meanwhile, the man meets a hot little person in a cafe who tells him that life can be wonderful. She tells him that she "was born a midget". Now I know that this movie is really old, because today little people do not like being called "midgets".  And they really don't like being called "people mcnuggets".

Inspired by her words, and the fact she is a really hot little person, he starts writing his book again.  And why the fuck is he writing his book in pencil? Is he all of a sudden fuckin Hemingway?

But then he starts shrinking even more! Drama! He starts shrinking so small that a cat almost eats him and a spider becomes his greatest enemy.  I noticed he used a sewing pin as a sword. I was like, what is this - the secret life of Arrietty? Which is great because I really love The Borrowers. As he shrinks more and more, he finally escapes through the screen to the world outside and makes his speech about how there might be other people affected by the strange mist and he might not be the only one out there. And I finally realized that he simply is the first of the Borrowers. That's why we never see him again, he is travelling to another house, presumably one with no basement, where he can live peacefully.  Borrowers are known to leave houses once they've been discovered by humans. This gets a 9/10 because I've always wanted to know the origin of the Borrowers.

He has his own dollhouse!