Top 5 Sociological movies

For this weeks movie Top 5, we bring you movies that reflect broken societies. We chose these films from a wide and diverse geographical area, because they are important for getting to know different societies. We highly recommend watching all of these films!

Parasite (2019)

We could well say that Parasite is the first movie of its kind in Oscar history. Bong Joon-ho’s film, the first South Korean director to be awarded the Best Director award, not only won four Oscars, including Best Picture, at the 92nd Academy Awards, but was also the first foreign film in Oscar history to win this award.

The movie has it all – suspense, drama, comedy, action, thrills, and scares For 2 hours, it’s tempo doesn’t decrease for a moment and it drags you along on a high-drama emotional rollercoaster. You may find yourself laughing one moment, crying the next, and afraid the next. The subject of the movie is essentially the consequences of class differences in South Korea.

Modern Times (1936)

Charlie Chaplin’s last silent film. The film shows a politicisation of slapstick comedy. The film criticises the emergence of exploitation in the industrialisation period.Dealing with a comic relationship of the conflict between the worker and the boss, Modern Times flawlessly transfers this universal struggle to the screen of the cinema.

The Truman Show (1998)

Spoiler alert! This is the story of the man who has a fake life. This man has lived in a TV show since he was born. It touches upon an incredible philosophical problem, in which the audience watches Plato’s allegory of the cave acted out before our eyes as a live-action, Hollywood movie.

Clockwork Orange (1971)

A Stanley Kubrick masterpiece, A Clockwork Orange brings a violent story of a dystopian Britain. The protagonist, Alex, and his gang or criminals are put through such shocking and hard-hitting trials to be purified by society. The film draws attention with its approach to sociological phenomena, and was not shown by many countries for a long time due to the violence and contentious social commentary.

Schindler’s List (1993)

Another film that has taken a place in the history of cinema is Schindler’s List. The dramatic film about the Holocaust during the Second World War is a masterpiece directed by Steven Spielberg. Based on a true story, the movie shows tragedy in modern world history.

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