1、 p (1998)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Sean Gretel / Mark Margolis / Ben Schenckman
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Country of Production: United States
Synopsis: The Jewish genius mathematician Maxi Milian Cohen was obsessed with the world of numbers, believing that everything in nature could be explained by numbers. He immersed himself in research, trying to deduce the mysteries and laws behind the signs of life through numbers. But the closer he got to the answer, the more he couldn't stand the fatal headache. He found that the chaotic fluctuations of the stock market over the past decade were actually manipulated by a set of mathematical patterns behind them. At the same time, his research attracted the attention of Wall Street stock market speculators and The Jewish occult. In a world of both real and virtual, Maxi is heading for madness.
Moments: In 1998, two talented directors released two stunning feature film debuts. One is Christopher Nolan's Fragments of Memory, and the other is Darren Aronofsky's π (aka The Death Code). Many people have not been able to understand this movie, and the film is influenced by a bunch of numbers, and the content is secondary. The black and white image style, the cold visual impact is impressive. In particular, the director's excavation of geniuses and madmen is too extreme, making it full of sharp and mysterious atmosphere. This film is also a typical demonstration film of Brecht's "separation effect", Brecht's "separation effect" in a nutshell: let the audience watch the play, but do not let the audience into the play. Where the is, you know it when you look at it.
2. Labyrinth Wall (1982)
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Bob Gildorf / Christine Hargreaves
Genre: Drama / Music
Country of Production: United Kingdom
Synopsis: As a child, Pinker's father was killed in World War II, and his mother had an ambiguous relationship with the family doctor, which traumatized his young mind. At school, he abhors dull cramming education and is ready to fight back. As an adult, due to childhood, he was unable to maintain a relationship for a long time, especially his suspicions and jealousy of women reached an incomparable level, so he erupted hysterically, as if to smash the whole world to be at ease. During this period, he also expressed strong anti-war sentiments and cynical ideas, in the material rich life, his spiritual life was extremely scarce, in the environment where industrialization prevailed, he also clung to the broken walls of dreams...
Moments: This is the first postmodernist film in the history of cinema. It uses psychedelic images and rock music to tell the growth history of an atypical band lead singer. For this movie, some people will love to death, and some people will devalue it to nothing. But either way, any plot synopsis would be eclipsed in front of this movie. The invincible animation and strong music make this movie and all the sounds in it as awesome and great as the two-dimensional animated flower in the film.
3. Cold fish (2010)
Director: Yuan Ziwen
Writers: Yuan Ziwen
Starring: Fukikoshi Man / Kurosawa Asuka
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Horror
Country/Region of Production: Japan
Description: The film is based on the serial killings of Saitama's dog family that shocked Japan in 1993. A tropical fish shop in Fujimi City houses the Shemoto family of three. The head of the household, Nobusuke, married the beautiful Myoko shortly after the death of his wife, which greatly displeased his daughter Mizuko, so the atmosphere in the home was always oppressive and solemn, and Myoko was even more cautious, afraid of causing trouble because of herself. One night, Mizuko is detained at the supermarket for theft, and the Shemotos rush to get away, thanks to the enthusiastic strange man Yukio Murata. Murata, who is also the owner of a tropical fish shop, sincerely invites the Shemi family to visit his shop and is willing to hire Mizuko as a staff member. Although the Shemoto couple were a little confused, they were unconsciously led by Murata's nose. Soon after, Murata invites Nobusuke to be his collaborator, only to kill a man who questions him in front of him. Nobusuke, who has always been a promise- and has been forced to become an accomplice to the madness of Murata's destruction of corpses...
Moments: This film is a classic case of the extreme analysis of the inherent evils of human nature. A sensitive and fragile father whose inner romance has been repeatedly hurt by society and family is healed and redeemed by passive violence, but the means used are unprecedentedly chilling. More fierce than "Exposure of Love", the healing system under the heavy flavor shell packaging is not inferior to "Visitor Q". Evil is like a trap, and if you obey it, swallow your anger, and you become an accomplice; if you rebel against it, you exchange eyes for eyes, and you become it.
4. Yu Yu
Director: Guo Weilun
Starring: Tang Lu / Fang Jing / Wu Jian
Genre: Drama
Country/Region of Production: Hong Kong
Introduction: I've always admired you, but now... You have to live with grief, and I can only live in death all the time... An ancient feudal village, there is a custom of meditative marriage. One night, the teenager who was called a sister by the family married the child daughter-in-law Qinghua, but the young and ignorant, the flower room was already a three-person world of a new couple plus a friend Chunsheng. Qinghua loves two men who treat her as well as she does at the same time, but her sister suddenly disappears, and the ambiguous relationship between Chunsheng and Qinghua occurs in the east window, and the two are forced to run to the city to regain their new life. The only way to find the road fee is to dig a grave and steal the legendary girl's corpse. But when I came to the city, there was a one hundred and eighty degree mutation! Chunsheng met a girl who was exactly the same as the female corpse, and strange strange things also unfolded, but the girl was the ghost of the girl?
Moments: Everyone who has seen the film will be struck by the gloomy temperament that permeates the film itself. There are no ghosts in this film from the beginning to the end, but from the first shot, the audience can feel the ghostly atmosphere from the shadows. This is the embodiment of the director's ability to control, and it is also where the power of a movie lies.
5、Blue (1993)
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Nigel Terry / Derek Jarman / Tilda Swindon
Genre: Drama / Biography
Synopsis: Director Derek Jarman's posthumous work "Blue" records his last years after suffering from AIDS. By this time Jarman was blind, and in front of him was the color of death—the melancholy blue. The film is full of blue from beginning to end, and it is the only color. No picture, no plot, no dialogue, no characters, except for the poetic background music and Jarman's serene confession. In this extreme form, Jarman tells us about his last years: the noisy and irritable sound of the hospital, but also the lonely and deep waves on the shore; his silence without complaint in the face of death; and his inability to leave his beloved lover's intolerance and determination.
Reason for banning: This is currently the most "anti-film" film in the history of world cinema. The whole film has no picture and no plot, only 79 minutes of blue. Perhaps as the director said on his deathbed: "I dedicate to you the blue of the universe, the blue, is a door to the soul, and the endless possibilities will become reality."