8º – The Lives of Others (Florian H. von Donnersmarck, 2006)
Berlin, 1984. A local intelligence officer takes his professional life by investigating the footsteps of “people of interest” through wiretapping. The more he investigates others, the more man ends up subduing his own life. Soon, the substance of their journey becomes the absorption of facts from the lives of others. Solitude here is an inexorable figure and produces negative effects on the psychological construction of man.
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7º – Help Me, Eros (Kang-sheng Lee, 2007)
After losing everything during an economic crisis, a man finds himself in a degenerative social process, spending his days cloistered in his apartment watching television and smoking marijuana. Solitude here, however, does not necessarily present itself as a negative aspect of human life. The film ponders an optional view of solitude.
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