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Time Out New York, a popular magazine, presented a list of the most scandalous films of the XNUMXth and XNUMXst centuries. These films are characterized by rigidity, provocativeness and the absence of any framework.
Below is a list of films that top the rating compiled by the magazine.
10 Poison | 1990
The film consists of three short stories. They are not related to each other, but they are still united by a common theme – rejection. Each part is distinguished by a certain pace of narration and a peculiar style.
The first novella imitates a documentary, the second a sci-fi picture, and the third one imitates the original gay films of the eighties.
However, in general, the film turned out to be completely unique, new, despite some borrowings. All short stories perfectly complement each other and immerse the audience in an indescribable atmosphere.
9. Bonnie and Clyde | 1967
Bonnie Parker is a waitress. One day she has a new acquaintance, Clyde Barrow. He tried to steal Bonnie’s mom’s car. The girl was tired of living in the outback, and a pretty criminal made a big impression on her, talking about how you can get easy money.
Clyde and Bonnie begin to travel together, trading in robbery and robbery. They rob banks, stores, gas stations. At first, the lovers are lucky: they manage to hide from the police without any problems. Over time, they become more confident and ruthless.
8. Last Tango in Paris | 1972
Late 60s, Paris. In the city of love, a woman and a man met by chance. She is a young resident of Paris, wayward and eccentric. He is a forty-five-year-old resident of the United States who is in a depressed state after the death of his wife.
A spark runs between the characters, and they start an affair, but at the same time they don’t even tell each other what their names are. The relationship is very passionate, but Jeanne is about to get married, and Paul does not stop thinking about his dead wife, considering himself guilty of what happened.
7. Viridiana | in 1961
Viridiana is so pure in soul that she only dreams of serving the Lord. This kind girl actively cares for the poor and the weak. One of Viridiana’s main traits is her naivety, which one day comes up against a harsh reality. The heroine is going to become a nun, but before that she goes to her uncle’s country house.
Viridiana’s uncle notices that his niece looks very much like his late wife. He asks Viridian to put on her dead wife’s wedding dress. As a result, it turns out that the uncle is passionately in love with his niece, and this makes such an impression on the girl that she decides not to go to the monastery.
6. freaks | 1932
In a traveling circus, not only “normal” people perform, but also artists with various deviations. Cleopatra is a beauty who pleases the audience with acrobatic numbers. A dwarf named Hans falls in love with her.
Cleopatra prefers not the midget, but the strongman Hercules. However, it suddenly turns out that Hans has inherited a huge fortune, and the insidious beauty decides to pretend to be in love with a dwarf.
Cleopatra and Hercules decide to kill the midget after their wedding. Everything seems to be going according to plan, but at the wedding the acrobat gets drunk and starts laughing at the freaks, revealing her true attitude towards others. The artists begin to suspect Cleopatra of impure intentions and decide to follow her.
5. Clockwork orange | 1971
Ruthless Alex is the head of a gang of teenagers. Together with its other members, he commits murders, robberies, rapes and other serious crimes. As a result, Alex still ends up in prison, and there they try to treat him, “process” him in order to suppress the young man’s subconscious desire for cruelty.
However, corrective measures do not change anything. Outside the prison gates, life is cruel in itself, and the criminal again gets on a slippery slope. This film was banned for a long time due to the abundance of violence and sex.
4. Birth of a nation | 1915
The Camerons are a happy family living in South Carolina. The doctor and his wife have two daughters, Flora and Margaret. The couple also have sons: Duke, Wade and Benjamin.
Friends from Pennsylvania come to visit the Camerons: Phil, Tod and their father Austin Stoneman. Then the war began. The Camerons are on the side of the southerners, the Stonemen are on the side of the northerners.
3. Salo, or 120 days of Sodom | 1975
The director of the film decided to film the book of the Marquis de Sade, and the results of his work were very impressive. The action takes place in northern Italy, in the fascist republic of Salo.
People from high society kidnap nine girls and the same number of boys. They torture, humiliate the captives, mock them in every possible way. Representatives of the elite feel their doom and want to finally fully satisfy base instincts. For 120 days, the isolated villa turns into a real hell for the captives.
2. Triumph of the Will | 1935
In this picture, the speeches of the ideologists of Nazism (Goebbels, Hitler) are heard, the Nuremberg Congress of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party is shown. The film was edited in such a way that it could be called revolutionary in the field of filming technology.
Leni Riefenstahl, director of the film, used 120 assistants and 30 cameras during its creation. As a result, this propaganda film turned out to be very outstanding.
1. Passion of Christ | 2004
In this scandalous motion picture, Mel Gibson tried to recreate the last day in the life of Jesus Christ. The film shows everything from the events that took place in the Garden of Gethsemane to the very death of Jesus. It was endorsed by various Christian denominations.
This picture proved that Gibson has not only acting, but also directing talent. In the film, he dispensed with computer graphics, which made all the scenes as realistic as possible.