8º – Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000)
In the plot, we will see innumerable fragments of the lives of distinct personages, having as only connection an incident due to the social prejudice. Belonging to the visceral cinema of the Austrian Michael Haneke, ‘Code Unknown’ offers us a study of the pathological meanders that permeate the model of a modern Western society to behave. A hard film, as well as all the spectacular filmography of the director, who tells us a world afflicted by an inexorable degenerative process.
7º – Brainstorm (Laís Bodanzky, 2000)
We will enter the life of Neto, a normal young man who, after his parents find out that his eventual drug use, is hospitalized in a psychiatric institution. However, the process that should improve one’s health only serves to destroy any possibility of improvement. Disturbing, ‘Brainstorm’ traces a study of the interior of the psychiatric institutions scattered throughout our country, explaining how pathological this compendium of our society is. A film that offers a real look at what really happens in those institutions.
6º – A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001)
The film portrays the life of John Nash, a mathematician plagued by his exacerbated psychological state. Here, we will know a little of man’s way of governing his social contacts with the world, going through a great period of his life. ‘A Beautiful Mind’ is conceived in a very assertive way, allowing the viewer to experience some of the problems faced by individuals affected by schizophrenia.
5º – Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín, 2008)
In the plot, set in the 1970s in Chile, we will follow in the footsteps of Raul Peralta, a middle-aged man, unemployed and fanatic by the character of John Travolta in the movie ‘Saturday Night Fever’. History gains its substance by exploring man’s exacerbated and pathological way of governing his social intercourse, breaking with social and moral rules in pursuit of his goals. Rustic in its resolutions, ‘Tony Manero’ asserts its place in this list by offering the viewer a glimpse of the erratic social compendium that comprised the South American country at that time with a destructive dictatorial regime that worked to exterminate the subjectivity of its people , as well as enhancing damaging enclosures, such as the protagonist of the work.
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