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, a shooting incident at 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, the film objectively reproduces the living environment and their state of contemporary middle school students, which has aroused more concern about youth issues in society. Therefore, the French Ministry of Education awarded the first prize to 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. ...
Psychological aspect: The most outstanding representative film of sexual psychopathy 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
Psychological aspect: the decisive role of love in the treatment of essence. The film is adapted from the real life of Nash, a Nobel laureate in economics, and subtly 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 aspect: short-term amnesia, telling a story about how a person who may forget the event in ten minutes retaliates.
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: * * * *