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12 Angry Men ---- Walkabout ---- Koyaanisqatsi A profound movie with no words except the chanting of a Hopi word, meaning "life out of balance", or "a way of life that calls for another way of life". ---- My Dinner With Andre "We're bored. We're all bored now. But has it ever occurred to you, Wally, that the process that creates this boredom that we see in the world now, may very well be a self perpetuating, unconsci…
A complete tangent is this Kurzgesagt video on YouTube where they consider the possibility that you will be every human and live every life. I can’t stop thinking about it. https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI
1) It’s a classic and perhaps a cliche, but The Shawshank Redemption will profoundly change your view of the world. 2) Then, on the nature of competition, obsession and greatness The Prestige and There Will Be Blood 4) And then there are days where I still wonder to myself, what the heck happened in Primer ?
Life is beautiful (1997, 'La vita e bella' with Roberto Begnini) No other film made me laugh and cry like this one. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/?ref_=nm_knf_i1 Little Big Man (1970) and Dance with wolves (1990) . I saw them many times when I was a kid. It made me understand early that the adult world would be tough. I was also amazed with the landscapes. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065988/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_…
Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky
The Reflecting Skin - I found the movie to be quite disturbing to the point that I felt mentally violated having watch it. While I would not say I was traumatized by it, in a strange way having the feeling of I wish I would have never seen that, has allowed me to empathize with people that have been truly traumatized. I guess you could say the move takes you right to that edge.
OfficeSpace - It was with this movie that I realized that most employers really don't care, you are just a cog in the machine and that many-times upward trajectories have nothing to do with performance.
“Fight Club” had such a huge impact on my life that I won’t even mention other films. QUOTES: "This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time." “Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need." "You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else." "Getting fired is the best thing that c…
Fight Club is a great film! But I can't believe how many people watch Fight Club and miss the real message: that Tyler Durden's philosophy is not one to live by, because it doesn't bring you any joy or fulfillment. Too many people watch the movie and see a tour de force of machismo and stick-it-to-the-man ideology, but the movie is really about the negatives of extreme, prolonged toxic masculinity. The Narrator conju…
My answer might sound like a joke, but I'm being sincere -- the Adam Sandler movie "Click" had a profound impact on me. I saw that movie in theatres on a total whim when I was a teenager. After watching the movie, I felt extremely emotionally affected -- I literally spent the drive home sobbing. I felt so moved by how the movie showed time passing by, especially as the main character started to lose control of how qu…
I would say the following had a profound effect on me: The Reflecting Skin - I found the movie to be quite disturbing to the point that I felt mentally violated having watch it. While I would not say I was traumatized by it, in a strange way having the feeling of I wish I would have never seen that, has allowed me to empathize with people that have been truly traumatized. I guess you could say the move takes you righ…