6º – Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, 1996)
The film follows the life of a woman who nurtures a pathological innocence in her way of being, showing all the difficulties she faces in the midst of an extremely evil society. ‘Breaking the Waves’ works with the way that the social environment corrupts some good qualities of the human being, subverting its characteristics in favor of nihilism, the search for nothingness.
5º – Prozac Nation (Erik Skjoldbjærg, 2001)
A young woman struggles with depression during her freshman year in college. Overlooked by time, ‘Prozac Nation’ is a film that denounces the effects of a greedy pharmaceutical industry, which aims only at money and provides medicines, often not needed in the social environment. All this with the false promise of happiness that such medicines can offer the individual.
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