Cool Turn

Directed by Christopher Nolan.

Director: Terry Gilliam
Writer: Terry Gilliam
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Cast: Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp

Directed by Spike Jonze.

Trailer Music: Arcade Fire “Wake Up”

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer: M. Night Shyamalan
Studio: Paramount Pictures

Director: Ruben Fleischer
Writer: Rhett Reese

A few years ago, a few German high school students went a bit nuts. The students had been adamant that fascism could never again take hold in Germany. So the teacher started a social experiment to prove that it could, and the students got a little caught up in it, to say the least. In reality, the whole thing was shut down before it got too out of control. This film is a fictionalised version of that out of control experiment and does an excellent job of showing, in a contemporary setting, just how easily fascism can develop support and discriminate against those involved, with even the teacher caught up by the amount of power he has over the students.