What should we do tonight-- Suicide... or a Movie? How about both?
A study has found depictions of Suicides has tripled in movies from 1950-2006.
A study has found depictions of Suicides has tripled in movies from 1950-2006.
Without a doubt the topic is one of the most dramatic ways to propel a turning point in the story. The character can go no lower- all is lost. What better way to show it?
Some of the greatest scenes in film history are those that capture this state of mind.
Wes Anderson's "The Royal Tenenbaums" depicts a traumatic scene-- using only song and no words- to get into the mind of a man teetering off the edge. A wrist-slicing Richie Tenenbaum cannot deal with his incestual feelings for his stepsister and overall feeling of failure that his father bequeathed to all his children.
The hanging scene of an ex-con who found the outside world too lonely after his release in "The Shawshank Redemption" was similarly disturbing.A true magnifying glass on how society treats those that have atoned for their crime and how they continue to pay he highest price for their debt to society.
However the subject of Self-death has been brilliantly represented in comedies like John Cusack's consistent failure of it in "Better Off Dead", despite numerous attempts after a bad breakup with his first girlfriend.
No movie has done more for the art of slef-harm as "Heathers" Christian Slater and Winona Ryder pulled off some homicidal-cides so artistic and poignant that they made suicide a craze that was too cool for their high school.
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