Oct 2017
I have Hannibal (the movie) playing right now... I am struck by the contrast between the beauty of many shots, especially of Florence, Italy, and the horrifying ugliness of other scenes. Florence is so beautiful... I think I actually get a (very small, but real) attack of Stendhal Syndrome, just watching Hannibal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal_syndrome
Does anyone here have any other movie that comes to mind, in terms of shifting back and forth between great beauty and great ugliness and horror? It could be any kind of beauty, architectural, artistic, natural (sunsets, the Grand Canyon, etc), female... whatever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal_syndrome
Does anyone here have any other movie that comes to mind, in terms of shifting back and forth between great beauty and great ugliness and horror? It could be any kind of beauty, architectural, artistic, natural (sunsets, the Grand Canyon, etc), female... whatever.
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Spring is another one that's mostly pretty, with only a few scenes of horror scattered throughout. Again, a lot of it has to do with the setting, which is Italy, maybe?
Suspiria is another one that has lighting that's so vivid, it just makes the movie stick in your mind, as well as the architecture of the dance school, where everything is overly large to make the girls seem smaller...