Palme d'Or, Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 2003
Written, directed and edited by Gus Van Dyke. Gus Van Sant Gus Van Sant
Cinematography by Harris Savvides
The film was directed by Gus Van Sant and edited by Gus Van Sant. Harris Savides
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Length: 88 mins
IMDB: 7.3/10
Synopsis:
The film is based on the world-shaking Columbine High School Shooting of 1999. An ordinary high school in the United States, the course of a vicious shooting and the events of the first few hours, the title of the film is derived from the meaning of the blind man feeling the elephant, an ancient fable that is a household word.
The Columbine tragedy was overplayed in the media, analyzed and commented on by journalists, criminologists, psychologists and juvenile researchers, and surrounded by speculation, unwarranted recriminations and a public pastime. All of this was repugnant to director Gass, who considered it "a scandal in the history of American journalism" and said, "At this point in time, the only way to recreate the whole thing was to make a movie.
The film seeks to recreate the entire event in a "purely objective" cinematic way, rather than as a subjective judgment by himself or others. Gass takes two fixed periods of time as the beginning and the end of the movie, within which the activities of the different protagonists are related and intersected, and we see that each person's life becomes a "fragment" of the other's experience, but only a fragment, and only by linking these fragments together do we obtain a complete time.
But only a fragment.
Besides the narrative that characterizes the film, the school life of teenagers and the problems that exist among them are also revealed. In society, the secondary school campus, as an institution in modern society, as in this American film, is at the same time a factory of illusions, a laboratory for learning to submit to power, a segregated area with a unique logic, order and desire, where education becomes a formal fiction and adults fail to understand the world in a fundamental way. Children are sad, hateful, childish and lonely, an "age of problems" that has never been given a rational solution. Gass, who interviewed many students for the film, says, "Some high school students think their lives are a mess, others are content, but some say outright that school life is hell" (quoted from the poster for the French version of Elephant). These problems hidden in the campus are like a bomb, and this movie pulls out its disastrous fuse. When Eric and Alex decide to solve these problems with their own logic and approach, they no longer have any trust in this adult world, which is not only a teenage tragedy, but also a tragedy of the adult world and modern society. It is no wonder that the French Ministry of National Education's 2003 Social Education Selection gave the first prize to "Elephant" with an absolute majority of votes, which shows the repercussions that the movie has aroused in the entire Western educational world.
Psychology: When the media are speculating about the Magadam case, it is especially important for people to take a look at this movie.
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This movie, which was unanimously praised by international critics, is closely related to two success factors: First, the movie objectively reproduces the living environment of contemporary high school students and their condition, which triggered the society's renewed attention to the youth problem, and therefore the French Ministry of Education gave the first prize to Magatsu in the social-educational selection of 2003 with an absolute majority of votes. For this reason, the French Ministry of Education's 2003 social education selection gave the first prize to Elephant by an absolute majority of votes, which shows the repercussions of the film in the entire Western education sector; secondly, it challenged the realism of the traditional cinema by using an inconceivable language of time-space, from which the discussion naturally enters a philosophical level, for a fact that has already happened, time has passed, can a perception system built on memories and judgment restore the fact itself? Can a system of perception built on memories and judgment restore the fact itself? How does one arrive at the truth from the phenomenon? Are empirical facts the essence of things? What is the relationship between the artistic fiction of cinema and the reality of reality? The field seems to stretch from Husserl's phenomenology to Deleuze's "image-time theory", and Gass wants us to see in this film how blind and ignorant any rationality, whether it be an ideological discourse of power or a purely theoretical/discursive derivation, can be in the jungle of phenomena. "I'm like Columbus, I'm going to be ignorant of everything," he says, perhaps just as the opening line of Blast Off Lola says, "The movie only goes on for 90 minutes, the rest is all theory!"
2. I.D./ IDENTITY/IDENTITY (2003)
Directed by James Mangold
Written by Michael Cooney
Genre: Thriller, Suspense
IMDB: 7.3/10
Time: 90 mins
Language: English
Synopsis: On a stormy night, eleven people are successively forced to be trapped in a dilapidated motel, where people keep dying as time goes by, and the dead are always surrounded by the room numbers of the next dead. The group then gathers to analyze each other's ****ing similarities, and are shocked to discover that all were born on the same day, in the same year, on the same month, and on the same day. Which one of them is the killer, or is the killer someone else?
Psychology to watch: DID (Dissociate Identity disorder, formerly known as MPD, Multiple personality disorder)
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3 Gothika/Gothika (2003)
Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
Written by Sebastian Gutierrez
Genre: Thriller, Suspense
IMDB: 5.8/10
Starring Halle Berry
Time:: 98 min. p>Time:: 98 minutes
Language: English
Psychology Watch: criminal psychology, amnesia
4. INSOMNIA/INSOMNIA (2002)
Directed by Christopher Nolan -- "memento"
Written by Nikolaj Frobenius&Erik Skjoldbj?rg
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams
IMDB:7.3/10
Time: 118 mins
Language: English
Psychological Watch: Another Christopher Nolan thriller related to mental illness, this time with a special geography - it's always daytime - how does a severely insomniac police detective engage in a cat-and-mouse battle with a sophisticated suspect?
5. Otherworldly Space/ Inner Senses (2002)
The last movie of Leslie Cheung's life
Writer, director: Law Chi-Leung
Actors: Leslie Cheung, Karena Lam, Maggie Poon, Tsui Siu-Keung
Country of Origin: Hong Kong, China
Language: Chinese (Cantonese)
Language: Chinese (Cantonese)
Country of Origin: Hong Kong, China
Language: Cantonese (Cantonese)
Length: 100 mins
IMDB: 6.5/10
Psychological point of view: the movie looks at the paranormal more from a psychological point of view, so it doesn't really matter if the ghosts are real or not
6. American Psycho/American Psycho I, II (2000, 2002)
Directed by Mary Harron
Written by Bret Easton Ellis & Mary Harron
Genre: Horror, Thriller
IMDB: 6.7/10
MPAA: NC-17 (Almost equal to the death penalty, and can only be released in a very limited level of Theater release, see it or not think about it yourself)
Time: 120 minutes (full length)
Region: USA
Language: English
Psychological point of view: a young man who is a standard urban yuppie during the day, turns into a deranged serial killer at night.
7. La pianiste / The piano teacher / The piano teacher (International: English title) / The Piano Player / Die Klavierspielerin (Austria) (2001)
2001 Best Actor and Actress and three Jury Prizes at Cannes
Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek, author of the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature
Directed by Michael Haneke
Written by Michael Haneke and Elfriede Jelinek (novel)
Director of the novel, Elfriede Jelinek (novel)
Writer of the novel, Elfriede Jelinek ( novel)
IMDB: 7.2/10
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Beno?t Magimel
Timing:: 130 mins
Language: French
Synopsis: A year-old female piano teacher has been controlled and repressed by her mother since she was a child. Complex ****births, resentful of having to live together, until a young, intelligent male student comes along ......
Psychological point of view: a once-in-a-lifetime hard-hitting movie, the most remarkable masterpiece of sexual psychopathic cinema since Blue Velvet
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7.8/10
Starring Russell Crowe
Timeline:: 135 mins
Language: English
Psychological Watch: Based on the real life of Nobel Prize-winning economist Nash, the film deftly presents the hallucinatory world of the paranoid spermatozoa. A one-of-a-kind genius, a legendary spermatozoa sufferer.
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9. Das Experiment /the experiment/ The Experiment (2001)
Nominated for Best Film at the European Film Awards
Nominated for Best Film at the European Film Awards
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Written by Don Bohlinger (screenplay), Christoph Darnst?dt (screenplay)
Genre: Horror
IMDB: 7.8/10
Time:: 119 mins
Language: German
Psychology: For a sizable paycheck for an experiment, 20 candidates are randomly divided into two groups to play the role of inmates or guards, but within a few days, a mock prison is turned into a hell on earth. How do relationships between people inevitably deteriorate? When one group of people has unlimited power over another group of people, the brutality of human nature is revealed, and we'll see how it plays out in this coming-of-age movie based on a classic social psychology experiment.
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10. The Beach (2000)
Nominated at the 2000 Berlinale
Directed by Danny Boyle
Written by Alex Garland (novel), John Hodge (screenplay)
Written by Alex Garland (screenplay)
The Beach (2000)
Director. Hodge (screenplay)
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio
IMDB: 5.8/10
Timeline:: 119 mins
Languages: English / French / Swedish / Thai
Psychological Points of View: What if, on an isolated, picturesque beach, you could get a few well-off, happy-go-lucky people to come together? Is it possible to create a fantastic paradise with a few well-to-do, happy-go-lucky tourists? It is not enough to point to human greed. Personally, I think it's a psychological experiment through and through, to be discussed by those who have seen it
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11. Memento/Amnesia (2000)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Written by: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
Genre: Suspense, Thriller
IMDB: 8.7/10
Time::113 mins
Language: English
Psychological Look:Short Term Memory Loss
12. Messenger:The Story of Joan of Arc/Joan of Arc (1999)
"You didn't see what was; you saw what you wanted to see."
Eight César Award nominations in France
Directed by Luc Besson < /p>
Screenplay by Luc Besson, Andrew Birkin
Genre: Anti-genre epic war film
IMDB: 6.6/10
Language: English
Psychological point of view: is Joan of Arc a sperm? Where does /man's faith come from?
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13. the six sense/Sixth Sense of Psychic (1999)
2000 Oscar Nomination
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Written by. Shyamalan (written by)
IMDB: 8.2/10
Time:: 107 min
Language: English / Latin / Spanish
Psychology Watch: Child Psychology
14. Good Will Hunting/Mindhunter (1997) <
Directed by Gus Van Sant
Written by Matt Damon (written by) & Ben Affleck (written by)
IMDB: 7.8/10
Starring Robin Williams , Matt Damon
Time:: 126 mins
Language: English
Psychology: Psychoanalysis
15.The game/Psycho Game (1997)
Directed by David Fincher
Written by John D. Brancato (written by) & ;Michael Ferris (written by)
Genre: Suspense, Thriller, Adventure
IMDB: 7.5/10
Starring Michael Douglas
Timeline:: 128 mins
Language: English / German
Psychological Watch: He jumps off a building in the manner of his father. And that's the best part of Conrad's plot in designing this game, which is that he wants his brother to heal the psychological trauma by experiencing it firsthand and transferring the emotion from his dead father to all the family and friends in front of him.
16. Le Huitième Jour / The Eighth Day / Phantom of the Sea / The Eighth Day (1996)
Best Actor, 49th Cannes Film Festival
Golden Globe Award, Best Foreign Film, Nominee
French Cesar Award, Best Actor, Nominee
Director/Screenwriter: Jaco Van Dormael (Jaco Van Dormael) Jaco Van Dormael
Starring Daniel Auteuil
The film was nominated for a Cesar Award in France for Best Actor
Directed by Jaco Van Dormael.
IMDB: 7.3/10
Time: 118 mins
Region: France, UK, Belgium
Language: French
Psychological point of view: A man who has been suffering from Down's Syndrome since he was a child, and a promoter of successful careers and a failed social life, and see how the unusual friendship of two people can change each other's lives.
17. Dream Traveler/Picnic (1996)
Director/Screenwriter: Shunji Iwai
Genre: Drama, Ethics
Starring: Tadanori Takanobu Asano Koichi Hashimoto
IMDB:7.5/10
Time: 72 mins
Region: Japan
Language: Japanese
Psycho Watch: After the huge success of Love Letter, Iwai Shunji delivers this work based on a mentally ill person. The movie doesn't show too much of the hysteria of mental illness, but instead the simplicity and loveliness of these patients, thus showing the cruelty of reality and the fragility of life.
18. Basic Instinc(1992)
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Written by Joe Eszterhas (written by)
Style: Suspense, Crime, Thriller
IMDB: 6.7/10
Starring Michael Douglas, the movie is a great example of the kind of movie you can expect to see. Starring Michael Douglas , Sharon Stone
Time:: 123 mins Country: USA / France
Language: English
Psychological Look: Freud Sexual and Violent Instincts
Artistic: ****
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19.The Silence of The Lambs/Silence of the Lambs (1991)
1992 Oscar-winning film
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Written by Thomas Harris (novel), Ted Tally (screenplay)
Genre: Horror, Crime
IMDB: 8.5/10
Starring Jodie Foster , Anthony Hopkins
Time:: 118 mins
Language: English
Psychological Look: Psychopathic Psychology
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20. rain man/Rain Man (1988)
Oscar-winning film of 1989
Directed by Barry Levinson
Written by Barry Morrow (story), Ronald Bass ( screenplay)
Genre: Comedy
IMDB: 7.9/10
Starring Dustin Hoffman , Tom Cruise
Time:: 133 mins
Language: English / Italian
Psychological Watch: a strong look at the Typical Symptoms of Autism
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21.Blue Velvet / Blue Velvet (1986)
1987 Oscar Nominee for Best Director
Directed by David Lynch
Written by David Lynch <
Genre: Crime, Suspense, Thriller
IMDB: 7.7/10
Starring Isabella Rossellini
Time:: 120 mins
Language: English
Psychological Watch: shows a variety of scenes of sexual psychological distortion
22. Spellbound/Dr. Edward (1945)
1946 Oscar nominee
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay by Francis Beeding (novel), Angus MacPhail (adaptation)
IMDB: 7.6/10
Starring Ingrid Bergman , Gregory Peck
Time:: 111 minutes
Language: English
Psychology Watch: Amnesia
Artistic: ****
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