Blog One

• I have decided to do my blog on bad cinema and bad behaviour portrayed films. I made this decision both because of my area of academic study and my own personal interest in films. The first problem I encountered was how to define a ‘Bad’ Film in context of this module. I therefore took the key themes of the module and applied these to my knowledge of films to compile a list of examples of ‘bad’ cinema. The subject areas that I have looked for in each film include, adultery, masturbation, smoking, drug abuse, religion, stalking, stealing, lying, gangsters and general bad behaviour including petty violence and excessive drinking. I have therefore defined a list of films to look at in terms of being bad, on which I will comment on in future blogs. Some of the films include:
  
  
• Trainspotting
• American Beauty
• American Pie
• Requiem for a Dream
• Fatal Attraction
• Kids
• Enduring Love
• A Clockwork Orange
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Catch Me If You Can
• Football Factory
• The Exorcist
• Scum
• The Wicker man
• Scarlet Street
• The Graduate
• Brief Encounter
• Quadrophenia
• Easy Rider
• Belle De Jour
• Baise Moi
• Bonnie and Clyde
  Any thoughts or views on these??