Now that the script is done, we have to actually come up wth a title. A perfect title is integral to selling a film because it needs to be either short and cool like Inception or Memento, or it can be long and poetic like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
A lot of the very popular films within the realm of our genre, psychological thriller or slasher films, usually have very short one-or-two-word titles, for example...
We decided to pull our title from a poem written by Stéphane Mallarmé. This poem was originally written in French and I understand that a lot of the original meaning may have gotten lost in translation, but the english version spoke to me.
Although this is just one stanza, the whole poem touches upon the fact that we can never understand ourselves and the world around us because there is nothing is ever truly understandable. Every aspect of life has so much complexity that it makes it impossible. This ties to the theme of blurring the line between good and bad because it is so hard to find reason behind the actions of Trevor and also the actions of everyone else in the film, including the politician.
Aside from being an interesting title by itself, it carries a lot of weight because it is open to many more interpretations.
A lot of the very popular films within the realm of our genre, psychological thriller or slasher films, usually have very short one-or-two-word titles, for example...
- Split
- American Psycho
- Taxi Driver
- Zodiac
- Saw
- The Machinist
- Shutter Island
One of the most notable exceptions being...
The Silence of the Lambs
I prefer the longer more poetic names that have a lot of deep meaning. I find them more intriguing, despite most of the movies within this genre being more succinct.
"When We Keep Silent"
We decided to pull our title from a poem written by Stéphane Mallarmé. This poem was originally written in French and I understand that a lot of the original meaning may have gotten lost in translation, but the english version spoke to me.
Although this is just one stanza, the whole poem touches upon the fact that we can never understand ourselves and the world around us because there is nothing is ever truly understandable. Every aspect of life has so much complexity that it makes it impossible. This ties to the theme of blurring the line between good and bad because it is so hard to find reason behind the actions of Trevor and also the actions of everyone else in the film, including the politician.
Aside from being an interesting title by itself, it carries a lot of weight because it is open to many more interpretations.
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