Films that affect the psyche

After watching a very qualitatively filmed and impressive movie, leaving the cinema (or just closing the tab in the computer), you feel yourself, to put it mildly, strange, that's what they say "under the impression." That is, this film somehow influenced your psyche , convenient thoughts on the topic "looked and forgot" here are not applicable.

Of course, first of all, we should applaud the director and people who managed to create a truly heart-wrenching film product. But with ourselves, what will we do?

Why do people love horror movies?

In the modern world, we live in an incredibly fast and intense pace. Our brain has learned to not react particularly sharply to news that try to "intimidate" with all its might, into pictures that we see every second, to requests, pleas and other people's misfortunes. But we need emotions for life, we draw them when we turn on the next horror.

When we watch a horror film that affects the psyche, adrenaline is released with fear, and we feel, we feel with their heroes fear, but we know that nothing will happen to us, we are at home, where it's quiet, cozy and calm. Blood raises the level of antibodies - a reaction to the release of adrenaline, which signals an imminent danger. Antibodies do not know where to go, so the body works for self-destruction - it struggles with itself.

We are getting used to this stimulation of adrenaline rush, because tickling your nerves is a very pleasant and relaxing exercise. A lot of impressions and all without consequences! Over time, there is an adrenaline addiction , and we demand increasingly more influential psyche films. The dependence develops according to a standard algorithm.

What do films affect?

Films that affect the human psyche are designed to affect the dark side of human nature, one that we usually hide so carefully from boyfriends, co-workers, superiors. This - fear, complexes, hunger, war, forbidden desires, vulnerability, society, the opposite sex. By watching a movie, we compensate for what is not possible to manifest in our everyday life.

Effect

In their time in China, the films "Bell" and "Diaries of Death" were banned from viewing, since after their release the number of crimes, murders and violent acts increased. And in Russia were also seen the effects of watching terrible movies affecting the psyche. So, there were times when a group of schoolboys lured the girl into the forest, killed her and drank all the blood, like vampires from her favorite movie.

But after all, violence can be learned from books, networks, just looking out of the window. This does not mean that now everyone should be forbidden to look out the window in view of the likelihood of the harmful influence of some people on the psyche.

Yes, people who regularly watch horror movies (it's not just about bloody scenes, but about psychological thrillers including), is indeed more aggressive according to statistics. But it's not 100% composed of maniacs.

The prohibitions against violence can not be protected, because even the same film affects different people in its own way - more impressionable people simply can not watch, and those who like other people's sufferings like (most likely their mentality is already traumatized), they will simply get the idea to achieve its "destiny" - violence, the spread of pain, suffering. Such people should be "rescued" in time parents, teachers and psychologists.

Prohibitions only generate interest in this side of the film industry. We will give you a list of films that affect the psyche, and you can see them from a "scientific" point of view, even if you are not a fan of this genre. Observe yourself, your feelings, changes in mood.

List of films affecting the psyche

1. Exorcist of the Devil (1973);
2. Threads (1984);
3. Kinoproba (1999);
4. Head-Eraser (1977);
5. Behind Glass (1987);
6. Salo or 120 Days of Sodom (1975);
7. Funny Games (1997);
8. I Spit On Your Graves (1978);
9. Clockwork Orange (1971);
10. The reborn (1990);
11. Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982);
12. The ladder of Jacob (1990);
13. Antichrist (2009);
14. The human centipede (2009);
15. The Man Behind the Sun (1988);
16. Necromantic (1987);
17. The Green Mile (1999);
18. Schindler's list (1993);
19. Mind Games (2001).