Do you like movies? Because I love movies so much, I can watch a movie, that I found it "best" to watch many times is my most thing about me that I feel I love movies.
But, what's your favourite genre? So.. I just feel like to write about it, my thoughts on my interest of love for movies.
For this this time around, I just have thoughts on psychological genre. Not my favourite genre but interesting for me.
I think my first psychological movie was "The Uninvited", star Emily Browning and other familiar faces. The movie goes all in, then slowly make me curious, then questioning, later climax, and finally the revelation of what's going on. I was young watching this movie.. I think after my secondary school. I can't fully understand but I get it in the way how the story put the reveal - what's going on with the main character - Emily Browning, with her family in this movie, involving scandal and tragedies.. My reaction was, "damn... That's what it is..?". And feeling like "poor her (Emily Browning)".. It's a good movie still to me, for psychological genre. It showing the traumas. But as time flies, this genre is getting more as I slowly discovered, and can get or at least guess the plot. But not all the time, as that's what the moviemakers try to tackle on us, the audience. It needs to be full of wondering and guessing and I just want to know and understand when this genre of movie come into me.
So, few in my list, here.
I think after awhile, I got a DVD for "Sucker Punch".
To be clear, I don't understand at all about this movie, even after the first watch, then later after few years forwards. I only get it it's a psychological theme after I turned 25 plus. That was crazy for me to think.. I just watched it few times like 3 times, maybe...? But totally in just watch for mood booster since the character - well, again, Emily Browning - and few more that familiar. Plus the visual looks good, fantasy mixed up, and I found it entertaining and awesome. All characters just pretty and cool. But funny to think back, that I only realised its a psychological movie.. It's still awesome to me, but the visual just awesome that caught me in.
I found another yet interesting psychological movie, title "Marrowbone".
I got hooked on it by the trailer on Astro, for when it will be premier on weekend's night. Yes, that's what I usually do and still do every weekend.. Back to it, I think the trailer cinematic-visual that caught me up with this movie. Where within the trailer only, I found few like an "art, painting like" moments, for dark and gloomy art. Like you can put it on your wall, if you like it.
The movie at the beginning just suspense, some part very calm and slow with talking, some part so flowering, and set to very dark - and eerie at the same time, although it's not like dark in most horror genre movies, but the vibe is there, delivered from what all actors, actresses bring for their roles. In another, there's part or scenes that make me goes "what's going on here?", and it goes and goes until, there. The twist and everything just "wow". I'm not expect at all from this movie that it's a psychological movie. And it's a good movie seriously. Where the highlight what is it about the movie from the plot is clear - what's happening and what's going on. Do watch it if you never watch it..!
For my last take and choice, I think I choose "I Kill Giants" yayyy... Now the list is complete (haha).
Okay... So. This too, I got caught up from the trailer. For weekend premier on Astro, which now the channel was no more. I feel frustrated, really. The channel had had good movies tho... Anyway, for this movie, I can say a bit slow. It have it's time where dialogue and infos for the main character's about. But the reasons I watched this movie was so damn different from what the movie is actually about..!
I like how it's so cool, to think with the monsters-creatures thing, it's fantasy, it look so adventurous like. And that's what caught me saying "gotta watch this one". But it's slow. Not much of adrenaline-suspense scenes, but rather more like a slice-of-life kind of. But that doesn't mean there's no scenes or parts that didn't managed to keep me watching - there still is. This movie is more I can say "heavy". Main character actually a young girl, and struggling. There's thing going on, and put other around her wonder about her; yet the main character deal with all innocently and the visual is so un-guesstable, for me at first, before everything is revealed.. But it's cool to see the giants and what it's all about. It's crazy one although this one much more slower, just a bit compared to other 3 that I choose here. But the about just so 'heavy' for me, and I remember I got shocked or surprised that gasped out when the twist hit. This one still awesome, else than it's visual.
Overall, to me, that's the main point when come to psychological genre-theme movies. It must not be too direct nor it will be too confusing for audience, if director and writer and all involved want to deliver and send the message as clear as it is to people who watch it. Because if it turn too confusing, I think it will be wasted, from many sides. A waste of an art..?. Maybe. But balance it, cool and beautiful visual to invoke the feeling the audience will have, to capture audience to want to know, plot and storyline, motive, and whatever of it will be - I think the movie will be good.
And so.. Here's my top 4 psychological movies that I think you should watch them all. Thank you if you read this, I love writing about this and more, if you like, keep on checking my blog time to time. I'll be writing another genre for movies I've been keep in my mind, see if I'll writing it soon.
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