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THEME EXPLORATION

moral irony

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and Gomorrah
1922 · Michael Curtiz
Rashomon
Rashomon
1950 · Akira Kurosawa
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Francis Ford Coppola
Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon
1975 · Stanley Kubrick
L'Atalante
L'Atalante
1934 · Jean Vigo
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 · F. W. Murnau
Babel
Babel
2006 · Alejandro González Iñárritu
The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing
2012 · Joshua Oppenheimer
Mama, I’m Alive
Mama, I’m Alive
1977 · Konrad Wolf
The Killer
The Killer
2023 · David Fincher
The American Friend
The American Friend
1977 · Wim Wenders
The American Soldier
The American Soldier
1970 · Margarethe von Trotta & Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Stanley Kubrick → United States

His films systematically expose the gap between humanity's moral intentions and the brutal realities of systems like war and power, revealing how good people perpetuate evil.

Michael Haneke → Austria

He crafts narratives where viewers' moral judgments become complicit in the violence depicted, forcing audiences to confront their own ethical contradictions.

Yorgos Lanthimos → Greece

His absurdist worlds present characters following rigid moral codes that produce grotesque and inhuman outcomes, exposing the irony of virtue divorced from compassion.

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