THEME EXPLORATION

institutional incompetence

12 films · 3 directors

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FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Firemen's Ball
The Firemen's Ball
1967 · Miloš Forman
Cold War 1994
Cold War 1994
2026 · Leung Lok-Man
Memories of Murder
Memories of Murder
2003 · Bong Joon-ho
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Frank Darabont
Les Diaboliques
Les Diaboliques
1955 · Henri-Georges Clouzot
The Departed
The Departed
2006 · Martin Scorsese
Collective
Collective
2019 · Alexander Nanau
The Square
The Square
2017 · Ruben Östlund
Dilbar
Dilbar
2013 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Seven Days in May
Seven Days in May
1964 · John Frankenheimer
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962 · Tony Richardson
Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures
2016 · Theodore Melfi
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Taika Waititi New Zealand

Deadpan satire that finds humanity in misfits through anarchic, formally inventive comedy.

 Terry Gilliam United States/United Kingdom

His films like Brazil and Twelve Monkeys depict vast, absurd bureaucratic systems that crush individual agency through their own dysfunctional logic.

 Buster Keaton United States

His silent comedies repeatedly pit an everyman against malfunctioning institutions and mechanical systems that operate with surreal, unstoppable incompetence.