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Re: Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?

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Post by alfor »

mindslight wrote: post #139
alfor wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, I think is it mostly seen as the opposite. That the media and government create a propaganda narative, a fake reality we live in. The red pill has become a symbol of breaking out of all the progressives lies.

Claiming the concept of a "red pill" as something exclusive to the red tribe is correctly perceiving the blue tribe memetic groupthink, while mistakenly thinking that becoming aware of one general memetic prison means you must have found your way out and into freedom. That media/government propaganda narrative most certainly applies to the red tribe as well. If anything, the red tribe groupthink is much older and poi…

If you live your whole life in the blue tribe, if your state is a blue tribe breaking out of it and understanding the world from the other side is liberation.

Then yes after that we need a bit of both, both sides have their pathologies.

We live in a narative whether we like it or not, but once we understand that we can more easily take control of it.

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Post by mmh0000 »

Havoc wrote: post #46
lobito14 wrote: post #3

Fight Club and The Matrix, but I only understood the latter several years later.

The whole matrix being a trans metaphor didn't even register for me until I heard about it in an interview on YouTube.

I really thought you were making things up so I had to Google it and turns out you were not making things up.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=adXm2sDzGkQ

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Post by alfor »

hulitu wrote: post #213
alfor wrote: post #83

Not a movie but the biblical lectures of Jordan Peterson. Made me start to understand the bible and christianity from a scientific perspective. From there reading the bible understanding more about the roots of our culture and seing the constant propaganda against it in the media, the movies, etc. It's been eye opening. Then you can read Atlass shrugged and live not by lies. I used to be very progressive, left leanin…

Life of Brian is also good.

Yes, it's funny. You can't be funny without telling the truth.

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Post by ndjshe3838 »

pan69 wrote: post #26

Cloud Atlas It's a movie I seem to go back to, to understand more about it and how the different story lines are connected. The philosophy aspect of this film I find appealing and it made think about reality differently although I wouldn't call myself a believer of such things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWnAqFyaQ5s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(film)

My one unpopular movie opinion is that cloud atlas is waaay underrated

I think the complicated story/narrative threw a lot of people off from appreciating it

Really good movie to re-watch multiple times, the scope of that movie is crazy

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Post by I_am_tiberius »

Law Abiding Citizen

It shows that people who do bad things might have plausible reasons. It makes me think about how we usually only see the negative actions and not the circumstances that lead to them. It also considers whether most of us might react similarly, or if the real villains are those who manipulate others into doing these bad things.

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Post by eightturn »

the movie "Smoke"

especially the scene where Auggie tells his friend (Paul) to... slow down. https://youtu.be/JGV_h36uZ5E

at the time, it felt society was telling me to 'speed up', get this done, achieve that, yayaya.. but I sorta preferred taking the slower route. This scene helped cement that mindset. Tall trees grow slow.

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Post by kirso »

BSOhealth wrote: post #42

Recently, Midsommer. I think if you go into it with an open mind (and not get too weirded out by the gore) it asks some really fascinating anthropological and social questions. By the end of the movie, I was almost entirely on the side of the culture and their behavior made complete sense to me. During the course of the movie I experienced a shift of position and perspective and continues to affect me 4 years later.…

Was trying to comprehend Waking Life but I feel like you really need to go into it with 100% focus.

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Post by ex2can »

BSOhealth wrote: post #42

Recently, Midsommer. I think if you go into it with an open mind (and not get too weirded out by the gore) it asks some really fascinating anthropological and social questions. By the end of the movie, I was almost entirely on the side of the culture and their behavior made complete sense to me. During the course of the movie I experienced a shift of position and perspective and continues to affect me 4 years later.…

Waking Life is amazing, watching it was one of life-altering events for me. After watching it several times I became curious about the director - Richard Linklater (he's staring as a guy at the Pinball machine in the end of the movie). Apparently he made some other nice movies after Waking Life. I really liked "Boyhood" - there's also really nice story behind shooting the movie - it was shot for 11 year with the same actors showing them growing up / aging.
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