20 Fascinating Films About Suicide

2. Suicide Room (2011)

Polish writer/director Jan Komasa€™s Suicide Room is a dark exploration of emo culture and modern youth culture at large. In his ambitious independent debut, Komasa weaves together elements of social media - Facebook, web chats, 3D virtual environments, and mobile uploads - to reveal a world in which alienation and connectivity co-exist in a kind of feedback loop. The film centers around Dominik Santorski (Jakub Giersza‚), a sensitive and lost teenager who falls into a deep depression after a series of humiliating events. During this time, he meets an openly suicidal girl on the internet named Sylwia (Roma G…siorowska), and they make an emotional and intellectual bond. Over time, Dominik loses contact with the real world, becoming more engrossed in his stand-in virtual world. The starkness of Suicide Room is rather unrelenting. There€™s not much in the way of humour or levity and the film will certainly take an emotional toll on some. That being said, this film has the kind of guts and ambition that any cinema fan should appreciate.