Research on relating films

                          RESEARCH ON RELATING FILMS

Coco

 Some more heartfelt movies about what life is between our final departure and life itself would be the hit film “Coco.” Coco tells the story of a boy in the realm between life and death trying to find an ancestor of his who will help him branch on his love for music. It may not show the eerie, empty purgatory we are aiming for in our film, but gives us more of an idea of how other cultures, such as the Mexican culture in the film, view the afterlife and what judgment time is to them. This film shows the happy narrative of being able to see old loved ones you heard stories about growing up and being able to grow unknown relationships with those who had passed before going back to the living world. 

Circle

As insightful as Coco is to how certain cultures see the positives of the afterlife, our group wants to focus more on why people fear it and what type of environment produces this fear. The idea of a doorless, windowless room that can’t be escaped can cause claustrophobia, creating this tension that we want to incorporate in our film. Another movie that has this is “Circle” where 50 people wake up in a strange room and slowly get killed one by one. The players soon realize that they have control over who to kill and who deserves to be the last person standing. The characters throughout the film tell each other about their lives and the type of people they are and are simultaneously being judged by everyone else in the room for their sins and who was the “best” person while on Earth. This curated “judgment day”  is very similar to what we are trying to accomplish with our film while marinating the fear in the characters at the idea of no escape.