Delving into the darker side of humanity through cinema
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Movies about depression review. Disclaimer, if you're triggered by depressing movies. Then watch something else and don't watch any of these movies because it's all about dark themes in the human. Consciousness.
So this film is called naked directed by Mike Lee following a character called johnny this kind of This functional intellectual character basically on the run from Manchester for having rough sex or something with A woman in stealing a car and escaping from his troubles to just find more of them.
And yeah, when he meets up with his ex-girlfriend and a share house, He hooks up with. The flatmate and then eventually runs into the street and schleps around for as long as he can. Talking about the highest kind of existential philosophical. Um, well educated, you know, ideas and ideologies to all these people that live very mundane and tragic lives and it just kind of shows london in its Um existential.
Loneliness slash. Dysfunctionality. It's not really showing any of the happiness that goes on but these characters kind of meet and have these moments that are fascinating to watch. Um, so yeah. Second movie is called embrace the serpent, which is a Particularly. Poignant film, all short, and black and white in the amazon and it follows two characters.
Mainly one botanus from spain who is meeting up with a shaman that he saw in a vision? There's not much backstory on either of the characters, but they have Uh, a kind of brotherly. Intertwined narrative. Paying from opposite ends of the world. And yeah, he's trying to find this plant that cures everything and it only exists in the amazon, which this shaman only knows about The, the main premise of the movie is showing the impact of westernization on Native cultures, especially religion, and he export of rubber for wars and other dysfunctional things in the western world to maintain power and control.
But the the good thing is to take from it, the, you know, the sort of hallucinogenic i'm natural side of the movie where it Allows people to, you know, explore something, that's unknown. It's, it's particularly horrific. The display of what religion did to some of these cultures. And showing the division of say, Natives that are living between two worlds of trying to live the western world and trying to live the native world.
And yeah, that is a particularly gritty film well worth checking out and yeah, just has that. Element of surprise that behind every kind of part of the jungle is Some kind of new adventure or crazy thing that's going to happen, and Yeah, i can't really fold it or they're very impressed when i first saw it and still impressed to watch it.
Second and third time. So, If you're into that kind of thing and appreciate black and white movies, then definitely check out embrace the serpent, it's dark but well worth it.
Treasures in the snow is a very Early movie from the 80s based on a novel. Uh it's it's an english movie. Pretending to be an austria. As that's where the book was set. But yeah, it's a very Painfully aware movie of, you know, a young kid's life where You know, they get ashamed or Unfortunately dragged into a drama and then the small town talks and basically, you know, a small boy's playing near a cliff and he throws the toy And it falls over the edge and the little boy falls off the edge of the cliff and he thinks he's dead.
And yeah runs in heights because he feels guilty. And yeah. So basically goes through this whole how he has to redeem himself The little boy isn't dead but he's got a permanent injury to his leg and of course his Older sister of the boy, that's injured. Absolutely wants revenge um yeah just goes to show how nasty the crowd can be on someone who It was, you know, in an unfortunate circumstance but the the positive side of the movie and the darkness and all the depression and and having the entire town go against him, is that if he finds a mentor that teaches him, how to carve, you know, wooden animals.
And so he dedicates his life to something higher than Being caught in the depression. So it's quite a Positive movie in that aspect and even though he's treated unfairly, even after trying to redeem himself yesterday. Find a doctor that can help this uh, young boy get his leg fixed.
So, yeah, it's quite good very dark themes. But as you'd expect for a christian movie, Now this uh, next week is called sack around which i'm pronouncing that correctly but uh Japanese movie, i think with French. Oh, i think canadian assistant. Uh, yeah. In the movie. It's just like what you would see as an absolute mind-blowing colourful experience.
Um, Following the protagonist of the, an orphan that is given to the Uh, brothel in early century, japan, traditional japan. Pre-ward Japan. I don't know. And yes, she has to sort of Owner keep as a kid that Basically cleans floors. And then works her way up into becoming one of the most high up high-end.
Geisha prostitutes. Whatever you want to call it. Um, but it's all based on this aspect of someone who taught her about getting through life, um, and through the depression and through the loss. And through being abandoned as a, as a child and basically, All the problems that come with that.
So, it's fascinating movie to watch. It's extremely well shot. The Sound on the movie is fantastic. Uh, just the soundtrack because it does that. Thing where it basically doesn't stick to the traditional values of the era it, you know, crosses over users all kinds of awesome japanese music from metal to Um, you know, traditional music and everything in between, but yeah, it's just fascinating movie of somebody's trial and how they get through it.
And just, yeah, just watch it for the colour if you don't like, um, dark movies about Six and other themes.
Now, the next movie is called chaotica Anna and it seems a bit dated now and for some reason, It's been buried. It's not really available to buy or purchase or rent unless you get some sort of weird. Small run web page. That does specialist films but yeah, it follows this character.
Who basically has past lives. Come back to her in a kind of trans state when she gets hypnotised. And accessing this trans state. She can go back into time and it's all about how she was killed in different lives and it was. Yeah. Basically, the movie is kind of like a sleuth movie, where they have to investigate find a way of finding, where these people were killed and how they were killed, because it's very specific how she dies in her trance state, so, and the dreams that come with it.
So she knows she comes from, you know, somewhere in a better one or native americaning. Indian or Somebody who lived in south america. And the story kind of revolves around a romantic relationship that has this kind of You know, way of keeping the plot running as he's sort of disturbed overly sensitive kind of artist person.
But yeah, the the fascinating thing about this movie is it's showing that past life, depression, repression. What we carry through life. And yeah, how how you have to deal with that or how you can do with that? Um so yeah it's going to esoteric but very, very good. Very good movie to watch.
Um, but very, very Dated now, Next is a ghost of the civil debt. Now, this one, i watched when i was very young way too young to watch it but that was That was the 90s latchkey generation just left with the tv and a toaster. But yeah, this one was particularly disturbing to watch.
Because it showed australia and it's kind of brutal roar how it would have been. I don't know in the earlier stages of colonisation With these weird. You know, prison colony style, putting people away and withdrawing them turning them into kind of monsters from You know, with having nothing. And australia is pretty much well known for being a very isolated place with practically nothing.
But in this movie, it explores comes from a first person narrator who's, who's talking about the inside life and, you know, how they are taking away privileges and lock downs and you know, it's very 2020, um, kind of movie but the Biggest thing to take from it is the the brutality of watching the actual people in charge of the prisoners becoming more evil.
And more problematic than the people they're looking up and how it solves nothing in this kind of ghostly world. So, check it out. Next one is possibly the best movie if i could say it. But yeah, it's just one of those unusual movies that made it through the hollywood filter, i guess.
Um, and he was given 15 million. I think to to shoot this movie. And well, it was brilliant because i i've never laughed my ass off so much before. It has pretty dark themes in there. But to be honest, it's the most credible film ever just because of the craziness absurdity of it, And it predicted.
Now, you know where everyone's got this kind of Self-pertentious ideology of You know, mental illness, like they have this that and the other, but it's that, you know, you have to live at home with your boomer parents until you have 40, 50, whatever. There's no kind of Way of getting around it, you want to be famous for just being you and have money because you're good at being you and you do some sort of creative thing or whatever.
And that's, yeah, just watching him. Battle it out with his father. He's just this uh, total Uh, you know, post war rich guy, he wants his kids to Leave his house and have his own castle, but yeah, just the most credible film, some dark themes about, you know, molestation in there and Yeah, all that sort of stuff, but yeah, it's, it's got a lot of good things going for it.
If you like absurdist, humour, and, uh, yeah. If you can check it out, if you haven't got a sense of humour, don't
So your three main plots is him battling it out with his father getting kicked out of home. His friends that are all kind of working class and trying to make it and live the life. And then there's him trying to break through into the animation industry where he's trying to actually, you know, make a living from his creative strangeness.
And yeah, he has a few love interests along the way but it's it's a formative movie for the best quotes and sort of funniest scenes of absurdest human. They can get check it out.
Now akira is probably the most reviewed movie on the internet for animation. But yeah, if you were haven't seen it before, i'd highly suggest watching it just because of the absolute mind-blowing animation. The storyline is incredibly complex and yeah, as usual genius japanese writers crossing the boundaries to show us the multi-fast that world of post-war Japan posts nuclear bomb, post McCarthyism but yeah it has that whole element of like seeing now as now and prophetically it has 2020 the The olympics in japan are cancelled as a poster on the wall.
But yeah, it follows, you know, one or two main characters um, that uh, Troubled living in dystopian times with, you know? Cults running wild and basically just police and the decay of society and no one cares about anything anymore. Uh, and it has these three psychic children. And somehow his friend gets influenced by this psychic energy.
And then that starts to set off his ego and it's about the genetics of This, this akira. That was basically dismantled because it was too powerful which is kind of giving you hints about. You know, human prometheus origins and Our darker side. And yeah, watching the battle between self.
And the two people, two main characters. Um, is is yeah, interesting, you know, tattoo and can i a pretty pretty interesting characters to watch But yeah, if you can watch a cure.
Now the next movie is called valley of flowers and it's a particularly interesting moving because it's about in the old times of the silk route and the band. It's robbing all of the caravans of cameliers and rich people going across from possibly would have been serious to india and across the china.
And yeah, it's just this fascinating movie of how the bandits meet up with this, this strange woman and how she sort of but which is the leader and she's a very unusual character and doesn't need to drink or eat and has all these very Fine features. That never seem to be affected by anything and So she but whiches him into another life of trying to find the esoteric trying to find things that are hidden because you know having all the treasures in the world are Not enough and so it crosses over multiple timelines and it has the most fascinating display of, you know, what would happen.
You know, if you would have fallen in love within the model or if you were to become an immortal or The, the occult science of losing immortality. I also didn't know that the, the meaning of the word Yeti was actually about a sky that basically chases down spiritually, kind of bad people or kills demons.
So yeah, it's very interesting movie. Lots of action, lots of past life, kind of regression. But yeah, interesting.
The next movie is called the island and it's a Russian movie. And basically it's post world war ii. Uh, where young sailor that worked in the boiler room, shovelling, coal. Has to make a choice in some sort of moral situation, that life and death between his captain and him.
And the people that are taking over the, the ship in world war ii. And because of his shameful actions, he dedicates his life to Living on a monastery as a servant to the The monks basically ration, orthodox monks i'd say and they Treat him is just the village, idiot that stokes the boiler and shovels coal and they give him food.
And he lives in the the coal room, you know, sort of self-imposed punishment It's a very similar to the movie well, to the book, the idiot. And it's that simplicity of, you know, watching high-end religion versus a sovereign, kind of idiot that has his own way about things and that You know, truthfulness honesty, the brutal brutal honesty of being living in your truth of of not having to want anything or need anything.
And so yeah the monks kind of finding fascinating because everyone wants to go see him for healing and not to see these monks that have got all the fancy robes. And You know, uh, you know everything going for them in the religious area. So yeah, it's very interesting movie and watching that the redemption, the healing truthful, brutal honesty, living your living, your honesty.
And and then finding out, you know, you know, don't need to be uh that kind of self-admonishing, but yeah, very very interesting movie.
So yeah, very cold and bleak movie with multiple themes, multiple layers, multiple questions? Mental health, you name it. It's all there. But brilliant. And the next movie is underground, which is a Serbian. Film from 1995, which i watched, i don't know, maybe, 15, 20, 30 times just because of the Artistry involved in the movie and the themes and multiple layers and levels from going from world war, i through world war two, three of the yugoslavian, serbian, croatia conflicts and and more.
And it basically shows this kind of Interconnected world that we all live in. But this is from the earliest perspective and that ideology of war being the way that The world is is transferred into different layers and, you know, the question of brotherhood. There's deeper themes as well being with the fact that these two brothers, the main characters blackie.
And his mate are constantly fighting over this russian girl which is yeah, symbolic of russia. I guess the relationship with Russia during the first world war or second world war. And yeah, just this huge amount of metaphors for forcing the public. To become blind and deaf to the real world outside and how they're just used as kind of, you know, manufacturing and supplying the wars and everyone's just oblivious to it.
They're a little life regardless of where they are but it's it's incredibly funny, it has You know, so much uh, you know, deeper deeper meanings and and it's got, there's yeah, kind of vaudeville. Funny slapstick, but incredibly good scenes that i just, you know, meta as well because they have the irony of being You know, multiple layers.
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