Best movies about suicide

The problem of suicide is truly global. Increasingly, suicide attempts become a form of behavior that a philistine resorts to in a particular crisis situation.

Suicide in the cinema

Due to various reasons, a person makes a decision to settle accounts with life. Every year on the planet because of suicide, more than a million people die, and only a third of them suffer from behavioral or psychiatric disorders. A suicidal phenomenon is a stable statistically social phenomenon that worries not only professional medics, but also the creative minds of the planet.

Cinematographers of all levels and suits often pay attention to the sad phenomenon. They make films about suicide, looking for its root causes, linking the suicidal behavior of their heroes with separate patterns: the socio-economic or cultural and historical conditions of the development of society. This publication contains some of the most significant and resonant works of the modern film industry on such a burning topic.

The parable of the outgoing estate

Director Masaki Kobayashi - one of the most controversial and colorful people of the Japanese film industry. The master's creations reveal the true history of the country. In his projects, he builds a plot on the conflict, seeking out the original variations of his decision.

His painting "Harakiri" (1962) deservedly takes first place in the category "Best movies about suicide." The narrative narrative is a discussion story about a sacred ritual suicide, closely intertwined with the code of samurai "Bushido". As a result, Masaki Kobayashi turned out to be one of the most significant paintings in the history of the Japanese and world film industry.

This again confirmed the release of the remake in 2011 - "Kharakiri 3D". The director of the painting, Takashi Miike, managed to keep the storyline, but in his author's version boldly shifted the accents. If Kobayashi's story turned out to be epic and strict, Miike created a real art house movie with an emphasis on almost operatic, affective drama. But who said that modern suicide films can not be cruel romances with tears?

Existential-satirical challenge

The Italian director Marco Ferreri took a lot of interesting, provocative pictures that caused violent scandals, rejection and protests of the guardians of morality and hypocrisy. Among them there are also unusual films about suicides, based on the so-called gastronomic comparison of accounts with life: "The Seed of Man", "Dillinger's Dead", "The Bitch".

But the picture "Great grub" (1973) exceeded all expectations. The film - an evil attack against the bourgeoisie - is brought to a logical climax in its illogicality. The release of the film in the rental provoked a grand scandal. The public was outraged by the behavior of the main characters - four old middle-aged male friends who once came together just to eat. The heroes arranged small breaks for sleep and carnal pleasures, but food and gluttony always remained in the first place. They ate until death. Here is a social and political criticism from Marco Ferreri.

Cinema-slap in the face

Films about suicide of adolescents most often removed based on real events. The project of Sofia Coppola "The Virgin-suicide" (1999), for example, is based on the tragedy that happened in the stagnant 70s in the American provincial outback. The scenario is based on documentary chronicles about the fragile feelings of teenagers of a sleepy patriarchal city. The author is the famous American writer Jeffrey Evgenidis.

The director in his debut work tells about a criminal case that caused a public outcry. Her film about the suicide of the girl and the consequences of her choice is a story about the unrealizableness of the notorious American dream and the collapse of the first romantic feelings.

The narrative focuses on the outwardly prosperous Lisbon family, in which 5 daughters grow up. But the idyll breaks down the suicide of the youngest girl. Parents, like crazy, want to save children from unnecessary, in their opinion, contacts with the outside world, which leads to even more tragic consequences. Many films about suicide raise a problematic issue - the relationship between fathers and children.

Typically a postmodern product

Director and screenwriter Li Chang Don in 1999 filmed the movie "Mint candy." The project of film criticism immediately reckons to the typical cinema products of postmodernism. The author presents to the viewer the existential view of the life of the central character Kim Jonghu (Sol Gen Gu), while all events in the tape occur against the backdrop of the country's history.

As already mentioned, suicide films are often closely related to patterns in the socio-economic development of the state. The work of Li Chang Dong is a fine proof of this. The author, having adopted a well-known dramaturgic technique-inversion, demonstrates the culmination of the tragedy at the very beginning of the film. After that through a series of retro and introspection, covering a period of 20 years, immerses the viewer into a session of deepened psychoanalysis, revealing the subconscious of the main character, focusing attention on traces of psychological trauma of his past. In the end, after viewing unanswered questions remain: was there a suicide attempt, did death take place? The director does not show the fact of suicide, which is rather strange for Korean cinema, which often likes to savor bloody scenes.

The trilogy of death

It was created by the American director Gus Van Sant. His famous trilogy consists of paintings: "Jerry", "Elephant" and "The Last Days". Looking at the films, we can conclude that the author made an attempt to explore death in all its manifestations: voluntary and violent. Inheriting the minimalism of the first two works in The Last Days, he relentlessly captures the elusive evaporation of life, the slipping of the spiritual component from the corporeal shell.

In the "Elephant" two bored guys arrange a shooting in high school. This film is based on the real tragedy that happened in the school. At the same time, in The Last Days, which echoes with Elephant, the author touches on the theme of a lonely man wandering in an absolutely hostile, alien world. Thus, without investigating, without imposing his point of view on what is happening, Gus Van Sain shows the viewer the last days of Michael Pitt's life, in which the world-famous musician Kurt Cobain is easily recognized. Practically from the first minutes of the timing, the viewer looks at the developing events through the eyes of a dead man.

Not Existential Drama

There are many such films. Not all pictures of suicide attempts are existential dramas, among them there are horror films about suicide. An excellent example is the work of Fidon Papamaykla "From Within" (2008), in which evil is covered by virtue. The action takes place in a provincial religious town, in which the number of suicidal deaths sharply increases. Townspeople are considered the culprit of Aiden, whose family, surrounded by religious fanatics, has always remained a black sheep.

Unable to withstand the vicissitudes of juvenile maximalism ...

Films about teenage suicide usually reveal the pitfalls of the most problematic period in the life of every person. At this time, all, even minor, problems are becoming global. The child strangles the fear of the future, the need to enter into adulthood. It is at this time that adolescents are indifferent to almost everything that happens. They are pressured by the notorious first love, which is often unrequited and because of youthful maximalism is considered eternal. The best works in this category are "2:37", "Suicides: Love Story", "Suicide Children", "Suicide Hall" and "Chat".