Just out of curiosity--what would be the top 3 movies actually dealing with trauma?
I've been thinking of going on a grief-film kick lately, starting with Three Colors: Blue (maybe an odd choice, but hitting things from strange angles is one of the joys of films), and am not sure where to go next.
That's a very broad prompt! Movies that deal with trauma could be about actually going through it in the moment, about the fallout, about recovery from physical or psychic injury, about grief...it's a malleable concept. Every other horror movie that's been released since 2017 is "about trauma." I don't know that I'd go with "top three" for that reason, but a few titles that run the spectrum:
Just out of curiosity--what would be the top 3 movies actually dealing with trauma?
I've been thinking of going on a grief-film kick lately, starting with Three Colors: Blue (maybe an odd choice, but hitting things from strange angles is one of the joys of films), and am not sure where to go next.
That's a very broad prompt! Movies that deal with trauma could be about actually going through it in the moment, about the fallout, about recovery from physical or psychic injury, about grief...it's a malleable concept. Every other horror movie that's been released since 2017 is "about trauma." I don't know that I'd go with "top three" for that reason, but a few titles that run the spectrum:
Loss of a family member: After Yang (2023, dir. Kogonada). I wrote about this one from a personal angle for Bright Wall/Dark Room here: https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2022/11/02/saying-goodbye/
Cultural (as opposed to simply "personal" trauma): Ida (2013, dir. Pawel Pawlikowski).
Injury/illness/Going Through It: Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962, dir. Agnès Varda)