Are there any good horror movies?

Palme d 'Or Award and Best Director at Cannes Film Festival in 2003

Screenwriter, Director and Editor: Garth Van Sant/gus van sant.

Photography: harris savides/harris savides

Country of manufacture: USA

Language: English

Duration: 88 minutes

IMDB: 7.3/ 10

Introduction:

The film is set in 1999, the shooting incident on the campus of Columbine Middle School in the United States that shocked the world. It tells the story of a vicious shooting incident in an ordinary middle school in the United States and what happened a few hours ago. The meaning of the title comes from the well-known ancient fable "The blind touch the elephant".

After the Columbine tragedy, the media exaggerated its bloody scene, and many journalists, criminologists, psychologists and juvenile researchers made a lot of analysis and comments. Various speculations and unwarranted accusations revolve around the tragedy of this teenager and have also become a pastime for the public. All this makes director Garth feel disgusted. Garth thinks this is "a scandal in the history of American journalism." He said, "At this time, only movies can reproduce the truth of the whole incident."

The film tries to reproduce the whole process of the event through a "purely objective" film way, rather than subjective judgment on yourself or others. Gus takes two fixed times as the starting point and ending point of the film. During this period, the activities of different protagonists are related and overlapping. We see that everyone's life has become each other's "experience fragments". However, it is only a fragment. Only by connecting these fragments can we get a complete time.

In addition to the unique narrative of the film, the campus life of teenagers and the problems between them are also revealed. In society, the middle school campus, as an institution of modern society, is also an illusion factory, a laboratory that learns to obey power, and an isolated area with unique logic, order and desire, just like in this American film. Education has become a fictional form, and adults have not yet fundamentally understood the world. The "problem age" of children's sadness, hatred, naivety and loneliness has not been reasonably solved. Gus interviewed many students for filming. He said, "Some middle school students feel that their life is a mess, some people are satisfied, but others directly say that campus life is hell" (quoted from the French poster of Elephant). These hidden problems on campus are like a bomb. The film has pulled the fuse of disaster. When Eric and Alex decided to solve these problems with their own logic and methods, they no longer trusted the adult world. This is not only the tragedy of teenagers, but also the tragedy of the adult world and modern society. No wonder the French Ministry of Education awarded the first prize to the elephant by an absolute majority in the social education evaluation in 2003, which shows that the film has aroused repercussions in the whole western education circle.

Psychologically: When the mass media are hyping the Ma Jiajue incident, people should especially calm down and watch this movie.

Artistic quality: * * * *

Decoration: * * *

This film, which has won unanimous praise from international film critics, is closely related to two successful factors: first, it objectively reproduces the living environment and their state of contemporary middle school students, which has aroused the society's re-emphasis on youth issues, so the French Ministry of Education awarded the first prize to the elephant by an absolute majority in the social education evaluation in 2003, which shows that the film has aroused repercussions in the whole western education circle; The second is that it challenges the realism of traditional movies with an unimaginable space-time language. From this perspective, the discussion naturally entered a philosophical level. Time has passed for what has happened. Can the perceptual system established by memory and judgment restore the fact itself? How to get the truth from the phenomenon? Is empirical fact the essence of things? What is the relationship between the artistic fiction of movies and the authenticity of reality? This topic seems to have been extended from Husserl's phenomenology to Deleuze's "image-time theory". Garth wants us to see in this film how blind and ignorant any reason, whether it is ideological power discourse or pure theory/discourse deduction, is in the jungle of phenomena. He said, "I'm like Columbus, I can't do anything." Perhaps, as the preface of "Run Lola" said, "The movie is only 90 minutes, and the rest is theory!"

2. Identity Card/Identity/Identity (2003)

Director: James Mangold

Screenwriter: Michael G. Cooney

Style: panic, suspense

IMDB: 7.3/ 10

Time: 90 minutes

Language: English

Introduction: On a stormy night, 1 1 people were forced to stay in a shabby motel one after another. Over time, people keep dying, and the house number of the next deceased can always be found beside the deceased. So everyone got together to analyze their common ground and was shocked to find that they were all born on the same day of the same year. Which of them is the murderer, or is there someone else?

Psychological aspect: DID (dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as mpd, multiple personality disorder)

Artistic quality: * * *

Decoration: * * * *

3. Gotka/Gosika (2003)

Director: mathieu kassovitz

Sebastian Gutierrez wrote it.

Style: panic, suspense

IMDB: 5.8/ 10

Starring: halle berry

Time: 98 minutes

Language: English

Psychological aspects: criminal psychology, amnesia

4.insomnia/ Insomnia (2002)

Director: Christopher Nolan-Souvenir

Screenwriter: Nicola Frobenius &; Erik Skjoldbj？ Roentgenium

Style: crime, thriller

Starring: Al Pacino, robin williams

IMDB:7.3/ 10

Time: 1 18 minutes

Language: English

Psychologically: This is another thriller about mental illness made by Christopher Nolan. This time, the geographical environment is quite special-it has always been daytime. How can a detective with severe insomnia start a cat-and-mouse war with a wily suspect?

5. Inner Feeling/Inner Feeling (2002)

Leslie Cheung's last film.

Screenwriter and Director: Chi-Leung Law.

Actors: Leslie Cheung/Leslie Cheung, Lin Jiaxin, Maggie Poon and Xu Shaoqiang.

China, Hongkong.

Language: Chinese (Cantonese)

Length: 100 minutes

IMDB:6.5/ 10

Psychological aspect: the film looks at supernatural phenomena from a psychological point of view, so it doesn't matter whether ghosts are true or not.

6. American Psychiatry/American Psychiatry I and II (2000, 2002)

Director: mary harron

Author Bret Easton Ellis &; Mary Harron

Type: horror, thriller

IMDB:6.7/ 10

Motion Picture Association of America: NC- 17 (almost equivalent to being sentenced to death, it can only be shown in very limited cinemas. Think for yourself)

Time: 120 minutes (full version)

Region: USA

Language: English

Psychologically: a young man is a standard urban yuppie during the day, but at night he will become a crazy serial killer.

7.la Pianiste/ Piano Teacher/Piano Teacher (International: English Title)/Piano Player /Die Klavierspielerin (Australia) (200 1)

200 1 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor and Actress and Jury Awards

Elf Jelinek, an Austrian woman writer, is the author of a semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004.

Director: michael haneke

Screenwriter: michael haneke and elfriede jelinek (novel)

IMDB: 7.2/ 10

Starring: issbelle huppert, Beno? T. Magimel

Time:130min

Language: French

Introduction: A 20-year-old female piano teacher has been controlled and suppressed by her mother since she was a child. They are like a complex symbiont, and they have to live together complainingly until a bright young male student appears. ...

Psychologically, it is a once-in-a-lifetime cruel film, the most outstanding representative film of sexual perversion after Blue Velvet.

Artistic quality: * * * *

Decoration: * * *

Beautiful mind

2002 Oscar-winning film

Director: Ron Howard

Screenwriters: Sylvia Nasar (Book) and akiva goldsman.

IMDB: 7.8/ 10

Starring Russell Crowe

Time: 135 minutes

Language: English

Psychologically, the film is adapted from the real life of Nash, a Nobel laureate in economics, and skillfully shows the fantasy world of paranoid patients. A unique genius, a legendary sperm patient.

Artistic quality: * * * *

Decoration: * * * *

9.das experiment/the experiment/experiment (2001)

Nominated for best picture in european film awards.

Nominated for best picture in european film awards.

Director: oliver hirschbiegel

Screenwriters: Don Bollinger (screenwriter) and Christopher Darnster? film script

Style: panic

IMDB: 7.8/ 10

Time: 1 19 minutes

Language: German

Psychological point of view: In order to get considerable experimental rewards, 20 applicants were randomly divided into two groups, playing prisoners or guards respectively, but in just a few days, the mock prison became a hell on earth. How does the relationship between people inevitably deteriorate? When one person has unlimited power over another, the cruelty of human nature is exposed. Let's take a look at how this social adult film adapted from the classic social psychology experiment is interpreted.

Artistic quality: * * * *

Decoration: * * *

10. Beach/Beach (2000)

Nomination for 2000 Berlin Film Festival

Director: danny boyle

Screenwriters: Alex Garland (novel) and John Hodge (script)

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio

IMDB: 5.8/ 10

Time: 1 19 minutes

Language: English/French/Swedish/Thai

Psychological aspect: If some wealthy and cheerful tourists gather on an isolated and picturesque beach, is it possible to create a dreamy paradise? It is not enough to point out the greed of human nature. Personally, I think this is an out-and-out psychological experiment that needs to be discussed by friends who have seen it.

Artistic quality: * * * *

Decoration: * * *

1 1. souvenirs/amnesia (2000)

Director: Christopher Nolan

Screenwriter: Christopher Nolan, jonathan nolan.

Style: suspense, thriller

IMDB: 8.7/ 10

Time: 1 13 minutes

Language: English

Psychological aspects: short-term memory loss.

12. Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc/Joan of Arc (1999)

"You didn't see what it was; You saw what you wanted to see. "

Eight nominations for Cesar Prize in France.

Director: luc besson

Screenwriter: luc besson, andrew birkin.

Genre: Anti-genre epic war movies

IMDB:6.6/ 10

Language: English

Psychologically: Is Joan a good grade? /Where do people's beliefs come from?

Artistic quality: * * * *

Decoration: * * * *

sixth sense

Oscar nomination in 2000

Director: M. Knight Shamalan

Screenplay: M. Knight Shamalan (Screenplay)

IMDB: 8.2/ 10

Time: 107 minutes

Language: English/Latin/Spanish

Psychological aspects: child psychology.

14. Good Will Hunting/Good Will Hunting (1997)

Director: gus van sant

Screenwriter: Matt Damon (Screenwriter)&; Ben Affleck (screenwriter)

IMDB: 7.8/ 10

Starring: robin williams, Matt Damon

Time: 126 minutes

Language: English

Psychological aspect: psychoanalysis

15. Games/puzzles (1997)

Director: david fincher

Screenwriter: John D. Brancato (Screenwriter)&; Michael Ferris (author)

Style: suspense, panic, adventure

IMDB: 7.5/ 10

Starring: michael douglas

Time: 128 minutes

Language: English/German

Psychologically: He jumped down the stairs like his father. This is the most wonderful plot in Conrad's game. He wants his brother to heal his psychological trauma with personal experience and transfer his feelings for his dead father to all his relatives and friends in front of him.

16.Le Huitième Jour/ Day 8/Love begins//Day 8 (1996).

Best actor in the 49th Cannes Film Festival

Golden Globe Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film

French César Awards nomination for best actor.

Director/Screenwriter: jaco van dormael (Jacob Van Domell)

Starring: Daniel Auteuil (Daniel Auteuil)

IMDB: 7.3/ 10

Time: 1 18 minutes

Region: France, Britain, Belgium

Language: French

Psychological aspect: One suffers from Down syndrome since childhood, and the other is a salesman who has a successful career but failed in social life. Let's see how their unusual friendship changes each other's lives.

17. Dream travelers/picnics (1996)

Director/Screenwriter: Shunji Iwai

Type: plot, ethics

Starring: Zhuona Tadanobu Asano Qiao Zhaoxingyi

IMDB:7.5/ 10

Time: 72 minutes

Region: Japan

Language: Japanese

Psychologically: Following the great success of Love Letter, Shunji Iwai released this work with the theme of mental patients. The film does not show the hysteria of mental illness too much, but shows the simplicity and loveliness of these patients, thus showing the cruelty of reality and the fragility of life.

18. Basic instinct/instinct (1992)

Director: Paul Verhufen

Screenwriter: joe eszterhas (Screenwriter)

Style: suspense, crime, panic

IMDB: 6.7/ 10

Starring: michael douglas, sharon stone

Time: 123 minutes Country/region: USA/France

Language: English

Psychological aspect: Freud's sexual and violent instinct

Artistic quality: * * *

Decoration: * * * *

19. Silent Lamb/Silent Lamb (199 1)

1992 Oscar-winning film

Director: jonathan demme

Screenwriters: Thomas Harris (novel) and Ted Tally (script)

Style: panic, crime

IMDB: 8.5/ 10

Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins

Time: 1 18 minutes

Language: English

Psychological aspect: abnormal psychology

Artistic quality: * * * *

Decoration: * * * *

Rain Man/Rain Man (1988)

1989 Oscar-winning film

Director: barry levinson

Screenwriters: barry moreau (story) and ronald bass (script)

Style: comedy

IMDB: 7.9/ 10

Starring: dustin hoffman and Tom Cruise

Time: 133 minutes

Language: English/Italian

Psychological aspect: It shows the typical symptoms of autism in colorful ways.

Artistic quality: * * * *

Decoration: * * * *

2 1. blue velvet/blue velvet (1986)

1987 Oscar nomination for best director

Director: david lynch

Screenwriter: david lynch

Style: crime, suspense, panic

IMDB: 7.7/ 10

Starring isabella rossellini.

Time: 120 minutes

Language: English

Psychology: various scenes showing sexual psychological distortion.

Dr Edward 22.Spellbound/ (1945)

1946 Oscar nomination

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Screenwriters: Francis Biding (novel) and Angus MacPhail (adaptation)

IMDB: 7.6/ 10

Starring: Ingrid Bergman and gregory peck

Time: 1 1 1 min

Language: English

Psychological aspect: amnesia

Artistic quality: * * *

Decoration: * * *