No.14673
I'm in the mood of films that depict a decadent world with no morals, full of crooks and scumbags working only for self-benefit, the dregs of society, backstabbers, rotten apples, whores and maybe a few uncorrupted individuals dealing with the corrupted world around them. Have any recs?
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No.14677
Gummo, there isn't any romance or hope to be found in the very style of the film itself.
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No.14678
>>14673
>The Finger Points (1931)
>The Racket (1928)
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No.14686
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No.14689
Topâzu AKA Tokyo Decadence
Disclaimer: I haven't watched it. I know some scenes were cut for home releases, which makes it kind of interesting.
<In view of this film our society seems to be frozen, cold as ice! The glittering world is only a facade above all soulish depths and perversions that lie beneath! "Tokyo Decadence" tells the story about a sensitive young girl who decides to serve the desires of the decadent Japanese high society! Day in, day out she has to do with cocaine sniffing pervs and guys with the sickest sexual phantasies. Slowly, but surely she becomes the ball of their obsessions, but at the end she breaks from the unbearable pressure... Like so many other Asians films from the 1990s "Tokyo Decadence" combines its gross story with elegant pictures. This flick also contains some real explicit scenes of S&M or sexual role play, so people with a too conservative mind will certainly be offended! However, those who can bear some explicit representations of erotic beyond normal will make another fine experience of 1990´s great Asian cinema!
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No.14788
Dima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.
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No.14813
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No.14814
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>>14788
Durak is neat. I recommend Lefiafan if you haven't watched it yet.
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No.15519
>>14689
>recommending a film you haven't seen
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No.15527
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Perdita Durango is pretty good, and loaded with laughs, if you can find a pre lawsuit version of it. They used clips from a Burt Lancaster movie they had to remove. You want that original version.
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No.15528
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Jordorowsky's Sante Sangre is awesome. Highly recommend it
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No.15529
>no morals
morals are spook
>working only for self-benefit
Everything is self-benefit and should be, the very reason world sucks is because people don't work for self-benefit and deny self-benefit, forced to work against self-benefit, against independence, against individuality.
>>15519
Don't see anything bad about it. Murakami, unlike the other very popular who's hack and mcu of literature, is edgy fashionable writer with reputation, you can't go wrong with him.
Although tokyo decadence doesn't really fit the list, while something as shit as v for vendetta or watchmen does. Tokyo decadence is too sublime for this thread which started with sin city too.
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No.15531
>>15529
>morals are spook
I guess OP tried to say "Values", or did you really mean spook instead of spoken/spoke? Still i think morals/values are also, if not more, about actions than words.
>Everything should be self-benefit
>reason world sucks is because people don't work for self-benefit
While i can see where are you going this depends on what people think of the self, these days they will think it's about the sole individual themselves instead of the community or the city. I think some places suffer greatly because the single individual only acts for its sole and single immediate benefit, and some even think twice if an action benefits more than themselves. Drastic strive for survival and maximum resource management attitudes in a stable, comfortable environment only brings delinquent habits and disdain from the general population.
>Don't see anything bad about recommending a film you haven't seen
Are we confusing mentioning/exposing a potentially-good work to downright giving it a seal of approval?
Not picking on you, i kinda just want to know.
>>15527
Sweet Jeeesus, how the hell did i never knew about this movie? Even its background context is an obscure regional story i thought it was hearsay because it's never mentioned even in narcoculture circles, not to say national wacky TV personalities as supporting actors. Very interesting, thanks for the heads-up
Somewhat related to OP but here's an obligatory classic.
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No.15532
>>15531
By spook he's refering the concept of Max stirner. You can find it in "The ego and its own". I'm not familiar with his work, so i couldn't tell you much.
>Everything should be self-benefit
>reason world sucks is because people don't work for self-benefit
This for example, is a very "Stirnian" thought.
I'm guessing he has recently been reading Stirner and tricked into believing that his thought is the "final boss" of philosophy.
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No.15533
>>15532
Oh, that spook. Now i get it, thanks buddy.
Well, to be honest i feel tricked into replying now.
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No.15534
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>>15531
Like I said, make sure you get the pre lawsuit version. The hero sees himself as Burt Lancaster in Vera Cruz and snippets of that movie are interleaved to great ironic effect. The effect is hilarious. The owners of Vera Cruz's rights sued and had the film segments removed from Perdita Durango. You want PD before that happened.
And yeah Touch of Evil is on my list of top 10 movies of all time.
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No.15537
>>15531
>this depends on what people think of the self
Nothing to say really.
>Are we confusing mentioning/exposing a potentially-good work to downright giving it a seal of approval?
No. Just that mentioning work from someone who has good reputation is not a problem. It's really just a defense of me recommending Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being in the archaic thread.
>>15532
>he has recently been reading Stirner and tricked into believing that his thought is the "final boss" of philosophy
I read him three years ago or so and it never hurts ressurecting old /leftypol/ memes. Nice to see you think so lowly of me though haha.
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No.15539
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>>15537
>Nice to see you think so lowly of me though haha
Well in any case that speaks badly of me i think. I just have a thing against memeing intellectual works. I find it as Adorno found popular music.
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No.15546
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Dirk Bogart decides to spend the last days of his life following a 12 year old boy around the Venetian Lido with impure desires in his dying heart.
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No.15547
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Anything by Eric Von Stroheim, particularly Foolish Wives and Queen Kelly
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No.15550
>>15547
>Foolish Wives
While he seemed too German to play a Russian, I nonetheless enjoyed his performance.
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