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THEME EXPLORATION

discipline vs violence

12 films · 3 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Class of 1999
Class of 1999
1990 · Mark L. Lester
Audition
Audition
1999 · Takashi Miike
The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing
2012 · Joshua Oppenheimer
Dillinger Is Dead
Dillinger Is Dead
1969 · Marco Ferreri
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
1994 · Michael Haneke
How to Train Your Dragon
How to Train Your Dragon
2010 · Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois
Oldboy
Oldboy
2003 · Park Chan-wook
A City of Sadness
A City of Sadness
1989 · Hou Hsiao-hsien
No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men
2007 · Joel Coen
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Raging Bull
Raging Bull
1980 · Martin Scorsese
Once Were Warriors
Once Were Warriors
1994 · Lee Tamahori
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Takashi Miike → Japan

His films obsessively dissect how institutional discipline and personal codes either restrain or unleash extreme violence, particularly in yakuza and crime narratives.

Michael Haneke → Austria

He systematically explores how social structures, moral discipline, and psychological repression paradoxically generate or suppress violence in deceptively ordinary settings.

David Cronenberg → Canada

His body horror films examine the biological and psychological breakdown of discipline as violence erupts from the failure of bodily and social control.

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