Mikhail Röhm once said: "Cinema has more expressive details than any other art". In the long and brilliant history of human artistic development, film has influenced people's artistic aesthetics with its unique charm. Images of different shapes cover a variety of genres, subdividing audiences from all walks of life.
With the rapid development of film art, the audience has more and more higher requirements, and the plain and straightforward plot is becoming more and more difficult to resonate. As a result, some film and television works with unique connotations came into being, and began to develop in the direction of digging deep into the good and evil of human nature.
Below, Xiaobian recommends 5 depressing movies related to human nature to you, all of which are widely acclaimed high-scoring masterpieces.
"The Hunt" (Jagten)/Douban Movie 9.1 points
Synopsis:
Lucas, who had just divorced his wife, worked in a nursery, and with a kind heart and gentle personality, he was quickly loved by colleagues and children, among whom a precocious girl named Carla was particularly close to Lucas. In the face of the girl's childish and simple overtures, Lucas could only politely refuse, but what he did not expect was that this move pushed his life to the cusp of the storm.
Carla's retaliatory lies made Lucas bear the charge of sexually assaulting girls, and for a time, this good gentleman became the target of exclusion and oppression in the whole town. The anger of his friends, the distrust of his ex-wife, the death of his dog and the malice of strangers made Lucas almost collapse, but when little Carla confided the truth, the malice did not end with Lucas's regaining his innocence. ——Baidu Encyclopedia
Editor's Comments:
"Hunting" is a movie that makes people feel uneasy after watching it, and the lies that accumulate are spread like a plague in the blood of innocent people, and the mouths sell gold, accumulate and destroy bones, and finally devour people's conscience like a flood beast.
They can escape the slander of the people, they can hide from the dark guns of the woods, but they cannot overcome the filthy mud of human nature. Man's words are terrible enough to destroy survival.
Detachment/Douban Movie 8.8
The film's protagonist, Henry Baht, is a teacher with a talent for some kind of emotional communication with his students, but he chooses to bury this talent. In order to avoid any "emotional communication" with students or his colleagues, he chose to be a substitute teacher, staying in each school for a short time, and then leaving.
Soon after, a new job came and he was assigned to teach at a downcast public school with no administrators. There are no students here, and teaching is extremely difficult to carry out. Henry's talent was reflected here, and he soon became a model teacher at the school and an idol for teenagers in the rebellious period. After developing an emotional connection with his colleagues, his students, and the teenagers he rescued from the street, he found himself not alone in this world. And Henry also saw beautiful life and humanity in this seemingly cold and ruthless world. ——Baidu Encyclopedia
"Detachment" also has a translated name, called "Human Teacher", which is the same as Osamu Dazai's "Human Disqualification", which is also a depressing film that has been lost to the end. As Camus said, "My soul is so far away from me, and my existence is so real." "The separation of spirit from flesh is painful and decisive.
This is a gloomy and dim tone of the film, depression and despair and pessimism are not a pretentious and morbid bluff, but a force majeure factor flowing in the blood of the bone marrow, can not be shaken off or hidden, like a shadow, destroying people's hearts.
Gone Girl/Douban Movie 8.7 points
A couple who moved from New York to Missouri, Nick and his wife Amy, the two appear to be a perfect loving couple, but on the day of their 5th wedding anniversary, the wonderful family has changed. When Nick returns home, he finds that the door is closed, the living room is in disarray, and his beautiful wife, who is famous for his fame, is missing. Nick confesses affectionately through the media, frantically looking for the disappeared lover.
Overnight, he went from being the lucky husband everyone envied to a poor man with nowhere to hide in the spotlight. Amy uses her diary every day to record her married life, and every wedding anniversary is carefully designed with surprises full of surprises "treasure hunting games" to maintain an intimate relationship with her husband, but life is inexorably becoming more and more plain as water. It is also Amy's diary that reveals that this family has the typical characteristics of many American domestic violence cases, and the words point directly to Nick as the real murderer.
Nick's situation was exacerbated by a series of lies, hoaxes, and indecent behavior. Amy is touted as the new media darling, everyone wants to know whether she is alive or dead, and the hungry and thirsty public is waiting to dig out the truth of the matter. But is Nick really a murderer? ——Baidu Encyclopedia
"Vanishing Lover" is quite a Finchian horror narrative, in this film where the husband and wife calculate and torture each other, we see the intertwining of truth and lies.
In this story, no one is innocent and no one is calm. The atmosphere of the whole film is extremely cold, but there is a desire to find out, and perhaps this is the charm of David Finch.
"Dogville"/Douban movie 8.4 points
The closed and old American town breaks into a mysterious woman, Grace, who is beautiful and kind, and is escaping the gangsters. The town's writer Tom urged the villagers to keep the woman and let her escape the town for the time being. However, the condition was that Grace would have to do all kinds of farm work to pay it back. People agreed, but soon discovered that Grace was a wanted fugitive. Everyone wants to drive Grace away, and finally promises that if she works harder, she can stay here.
Grace worked day and night, and it was difficult to escape the unfortunate things. A townsman raped Grace after a police roundup. Dirty things began: people began to insult her casually, even Tom, also unveiled the mask of kindness, Grace became a dog in the town, working, suffering, and the kind heart gradually changed. The people in the town could not imagine that the mysterious life of this woman had made the insult at this moment a disaster for him. ——Douban Movie
"Dogtown" is a novelty film, but also an innovative work that dramatizes, or films. In the eloquent plot, Russ von Trier guides us through the perspective of God, discerning the glimmer of humanity hidden under the stage set, either bright or dim.
The film does not reveal the evil of human nature in a single way, but decomposes and analyzes in a high-level way, step by step, and can even be said to gradually enter the "evil" realm, which eventually leads to the Pandora's box of human nature being knocked open.
Nightcrawler/Douban movie 8.3 points
Lou Bloom is a passionate young man desperate to get a job. He found that he might be able to make a difference in reporting on underground crime in Los Angeles. He collaborated with a group of adventurous photographers to break into the dangerous and exciting world of "nocturnal walking".
The so-called "nocturnal walk" refers to the behavior of freelance journalists and photographers who go around shooting violent crime images and selling them to the relevant program groups of tv stations. Nina, an experienced female journalist from the television station, also became Lu's assistant. Soon, however, he blurred the line between good and evil, turning him from a bystander into a "star" of crimes committed in his story. ——Baidu Encyclopedia
Jack Gyllenhaal's superb acting skills portray the image of the dove man in "Nightcrawler" into three points, which is unforgettable.
In this film full of dark atmosphere, we see the evil and ferocity of human nature from the cold-blooded paranoia played by Gyllenhaal, and at the same time fall into the re-examination and deep reflection of the public opinion media.
The above 5 movies are all above 8 points, the plot is excellent, the reputation is excellent, and it is not to be missed! If you also have this type of movie recommendation, I hope not to hesitate to recommend, leave a message to discuss!