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Re: Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?

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Post by kirkhawley »

gremlinsinc wrote: post #223
kiliantics wrote: post #212

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Maybe this is more than what people usually understand when they hear the term "class struggle" but this is actually exactly what Marx is talking about when he describes the "system" of capitalism and how all of the classes are dependent on it even though they are in conflict. This is related to the "inherent contradictions" built into the system which he also discusses. One word you mention though -- "Hypernormalisa…

I've been going some anarch-communist rabbit holes lately. I feel I'm leaning more and more libertarian socialist. I'd accept government medicare for all, but I'm losing hope govt will ever do anything for people. Another alternative would be: 1 million people start a union, virtual nation, online commune - whatever you want to call it. They donate 5% of their income. That's used for rental property investments, unti…

Great idea! Of course you will eventually have to wrest power back from the administrators of your fund, who have taken over control of everything and are doing whatever they want with your money. Just like every other great idea involving wielding power.

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Post by kqr2 »

RichardCA wrote: post #260
spanhandler wrote: post #65

Team America: World Police. Now I get to hear the AIDS song and “America, Fuck Yeah” in my head at least once every day for the rest of my life. It’s changed my mind about the concept of entertainment being so crap that it’s actual brain poison that the wise will avoid, which I thought was just old stick-in-the-mud folks being old. But no, it’s real. Be careful what you expose your brain to. Bonus round: the wiener-m…

Every time I'm called upon to learn a new skill quickly (as often happens in IT), I think about the training montage. https://youtu.be/vK4gv11PTI8

If you want the video in addition to the soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFrMLRQIT_k

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Post by derptron »

DonaldPShimoda wrote: post #122
jollofricepeas wrote: post #10

“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…

Read the book. Toxic masculinity is not the takeaway of Fight Club at all.

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Post by nabilhat »

Falling Down.

I grew up in fundamentalist cults and lived in a rural area favored by the antisocial. This film was the indulgent catharsis of reactionary Luddism, anticulture, bigotry, and social paranoia I was immersed in. A naked display of antisocial fantasies. I couldn't have avoided watching it. Everyone I knew watched it over and over, feeding antisocial yearnings. I took away a sharp new perspective on my world which formed the tip of the wedge that separated me from those communities.

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Post by paul_f »

petewailes wrote: post #152
iscrewyou wrote: post #133

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Margin Call has been on my list to watch for a very long time. You just gave me a reason to watch it sooner than later. I’d say Steve Carell’s character is the only protagonist in The Big Short.

Margin Call is possibly the best film about how the finance industry works at a micro level ever made.

Totally agree. Margin call is a gem, perfect movie IMO

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Post by dane-pgp »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #256
dane-pgp wrote: post #250

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> one may be lucky to live in a place where this is left to the individual woman. "Lucky" if you're the woman in this scenario; not so lucky if you're the unborn child.

The cells amalgamate you mean. But this is obviously a discussion which will not lead to anything constructive. Like I said I am happy to have the freedom of choice thanks to Ms Veil and the women who fought for that.

If an unborn child is a "cells amalgamate" then maybe you are too. Anyway, the fact that you're happy to have that "freedom of choice" seems like a classic case of survivorship bias.

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Post by archagon »

It’s strange. I can definitely give you a list of books that made me see the world differently, but I find it much harder to come up with a list of films, even though I tend to enjoy the medium more. Broadly speaking, I keep reflecting on scenes from Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, and Miyazaki films more than any others, even though they’re not necessarily my favorite films. I would recommend Stalker, Dreams, and Mononoke.

There’s also Man on Wire, for both the sheer joy of impossible achievement that it evokes, as well as the beautiful minimalist soundtrack. On reflection, maybe that’s one of the few films I’ve seen that had a different person leaving the theater. The mood of that film is imprinted in my personality.

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Post by billylo »

Dead Poets Society.

Quotes from Mr. Keating.

"Why do I stand up here? Anybody? I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way."

"Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out!"

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