My favorite bleak films
We all love a bleak film, right?
Well i just feel like compiling in a list the ones that have meant the most to me over the years.
Film gathers together various expressions into a dynamic new unison, which makes it the way it is, this is what awaits people who seek out not just entertaining things.
And so when a good film is really bleak, it can help you face the bleak things you yourself face. Functioning like horror for our fears, but with sad and depressing things.
#1 Germany Year Zero by Roberto Rossellini - i should have had this in my top 10 films a few days ago, it's a stunner, the only film that made me write to Criterion to thank them for it. It's just after the war, in a country that's been defeated, rubble and blasted morale all over the place. There's a visceral quality here that for a 40's film is quite astounding to me, and i love it so much.
others
Dancer in the Dark is where i first used the word bleak for movies in a positive sense, and so i owe it so much, a going blind factory worker who loves the musicals is framed for a crime she shouldn't have been tried for, grrrr just thinking of that cop, it's that character which summarizes the unfairness of the world. Shit happens and it ain't fair.
Shame by Ingmar Bergman - a couple who are artists and a war, and how it destabilizes and de-humanizes them. Ingmar could do bleak real good, but here he did it ever so slightly more pronounced and effective as usual.
Sansho the Bailiff - Kenji Mizoguchi shows us the lamentable nature of human nature.
The Elephant Man - David Lynch's and the film medium's imo saddest tale, a disfigured man, and how the world which is indeed the disfigured one collides with him.
The Seventh Continent - Michael Haneke's debut film is about a family, and how they deal with complete and utter uselessness.
Threads - a British tv movie about the nuclear bomb being used, and how it would be after that for the unlucky survivors.
What are your favorite bleak films, let me know down below ......:)
Well i just feel like compiling in a list the ones that have meant the most to me over the years.
Film gathers together various expressions into a dynamic new unison, which makes it the way it is, this is what awaits people who seek out not just entertaining things.
And so when a good film is really bleak, it can help you face the bleak things you yourself face. Functioning like horror for our fears, but with sad and depressing things.
#1 Germany Year Zero by Roberto Rossellini - i should have had this in my top 10 films a few days ago, it's a stunner, the only film that made me write to Criterion to thank them for it. It's just after the war, in a country that's been defeated, rubble and blasted morale all over the place. There's a visceral quality here that for a 40's film is quite astounding to me, and i love it so much.
others
Dancer in the Dark is where i first used the word bleak for movies in a positive sense, and so i owe it so much, a going blind factory worker who loves the musicals is framed for a crime she shouldn't have been tried for, grrrr just thinking of that cop, it's that character which summarizes the unfairness of the world. Shit happens and it ain't fair.
Shame by Ingmar Bergman - a couple who are artists and a war, and how it destabilizes and de-humanizes them. Ingmar could do bleak real good, but here he did it ever so slightly more pronounced and effective as usual.
Sansho the Bailiff - Kenji Mizoguchi shows us the lamentable nature of human nature.
The Elephant Man - David Lynch's and the film medium's imo saddest tale, a disfigured man, and how the world which is indeed the disfigured one collides with him.
The Seventh Continent - Michael Haneke's debut film is about a family, and how they deal with complete and utter uselessness.
Threads - a British tv movie about the nuclear bomb being used, and how it would be after that for the unlucky survivors.
What are your favorite bleak films, let me know down below ......:)
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