Lockdown in Cinema

During these days of confinement, I've been watching films whose protagonists suffer from isolation or are locked up for various reasons. Maybe I was looking for consolation, identification or just learning something about it. The truth is that all these films look very different when you are experiencing a similar experience yourself.

Filmmakers have many times been inspired by extreme situations: from the classic prison subgenre with films such as Papillon, Midnight Express, The Shawshank Redemption, Dawn by Law, A Man Escaped... to the spacial science-fiction: Alien, The Martian, Moon or Gravity; including all types of psychopath kidnappers like in Room, Oldboy, Prisioners, Funny Games, Saw, Split, Misery… We can also find characters that participate in social experiments such as Cube or The Platform; remain in lockdown due to inexplicable phenomena, like The Exterminating Angel and The Mist, or due to natural phenomena like The Lighthouse, The Hateful Eight, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers… Some others are persecuted during war, like in The Endless Trench or The Pianist; without forgetting those who are sick and confined like Birdy, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Cries and Whispers, Rear Window…
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En estos días de confinamiento he estado revisando películas cuyos protagonistas sufren aislamiento o son confinados por las más diversas razones. Tal vez buscaba consuelo, identificación o quizás aprender algo… La verdad es que estas películas se ven de forma muy distinta cuando sufres tú mismo una experiencia similar.

Los cineastas se han inspirado muchas veces en este tipo de situaciones límite: desde el clásico subgénero carcelario en películas como Papillon, Expreso de medianoche, Cadena perpetua, Bajo el peso de la ley, Un condenado a muerte se ha escapado… hasta la ciencia ficción espacial de Alien, Marte, Moon o Gravity; pasando por todo tipo de psicópatas secuestradores como en Room, Oldboy, Prisioneros, Funny Games, Saw, Múltiple, Misery…

También encontramos personajes víctimas de experimentos sociales como Cube o El Hoyo; encerrados debido a fenómenos inexplicables como El ángel exterminador y La niebla, o recluidos por causas naturales como El faro, Los odiosos ocho, Siete novias para siete hermanos… Otros son perseguidos en periodos de guerra como en La trinchera infinita o El pianista. Si olvidarnos de las personas enfermas en Birdy, Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco, Gritos y Susurros, La ventana indiscreta…
FILMS:
Papillon (1973)
Oldboy (2003)
Buried (2010)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Dogville (2003)
The Endless Trench (2019)
A Man Escaped (1956)
Oldboy (2003)
Room (2015)
Split (2016)
Saw (2004)
In To The Wild (2007)
Gravity (2013)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)
Lady Macbeth (2016)
Birdy (1984)
Midnight Express (1978)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
The Pianist (2012)
The Platform (1973)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Pianist (2012)
Moon (2009)
The Servant (1963)
Funny Games (1997)
A Special Day (1977)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Misery (1990)
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Death and the Maiden (1994)
The Lighthouse (2019)
Climax (2018)
Parasite (2019)
Down By Law (1986)
In the Name of the Father (1993)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Midnight Express (1978)
Green Room (1915)
The Sunset Limited (2011)
Split (2016)
Signs (2002)
The Hateful Eigh (2015)
The Shining (1980)
The Martian (2015)
Prisoners (2013)
The Lighthouse (2019)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Mustang (2015)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Sanjuro (1962)
Cries and Whispers
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
The Mist (2007)
Alive (1993)
Cube (1997)
Alien (1979)
The Martian (2015)
Climax (1998)
High and Low (1963)
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest (1975)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Take Shelter (2011)
Carnage (2011)
The Wolfpack (2015)

Видео Lockdown in Cinema канала Juan Rayos