We have brought, on this list, films that study the concept of loneliness in cinema. The listed films seek to show the nuances of characters going through this phase, their sufferings, agonies and, eventually, moments of satisfaction. It is important to note that the vision of solitude explored by this list seeks to enter more deeply into an Eastern view of the theme, understanding the concept as something natural and essential for every human being. Of course, the theme is bound up in our traditional Western society with feelings of existential emptiness, guilt, and even fear. The films below seek to capture both the positive and negative views of loneliness, always showing the implications of this in the lives of the characters in the plot.
10º – Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)
An angel tired of the solitude of his work chooses to become mortal and enjoy the worldly pleasures after falling in love with a woman. ‘Wings of Desire’ works on the concepts of melancholy and solitude. Here the solitude is exposed as a construction that brings known patterns, imputing an insensitive essence in the routine of those inserted there.
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9º – Falling Down (Joel Schumacher, 1993)
An unemployed man enters into a self-destructive routine after being consumed by the weights of social habits and their eventual injustices. In one of the best films of the career of director Joel Schumacher, we are going to be introduced to a man destroyed, day after day, by his inability to consummate concrete social relations. The figure of solitude makes its presence when we investigate the man’s life in a more scaled way shortly before beginning his destructive journey, seeing how the estrangement of others has withdrawn the possibility of seeing some sign of improvement of his degenerative state.
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