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La Haine (1995)[0]: not so much that I saw it differently, more that I felt less crazy for seeing it as it was. I come from those exact areas and times, and even twenty years later there is a terrible amount of similarity in how things are unraveling. Children of Men (2006)[1]: for the combination of cinematography and the dystopian atmosphere. Departures / Okuribito (2008)[2]: the subtlety and elegance of the Japane…

Amour was so brutal to me but it really touched me. I highly recommend this movie.

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Commenters here gave great recommendations. I'll try mentioning the unmentioned.

- Gifted (2017):

Drama about a single man raising a genius girl. Some small bits of the film explore about the responsibility of extraordinary people vs their right to feel like normal human, but most of the film is about the human aspect of it.

- The Wind Rises (2013):

The Ghibli Studio film dramatizing the story of Jiro Horikoshi, the designer of Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft and its successor, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. This is one of Ghibli film that is more grounded to reality than the others.

- Sorry to Bother You (2018):

Black Comedy Drama about a young black telemarketer who are really good at his jobs, gets involved in a huge corporate conspiracy where he must choose between profit and joining his activist friend.

- Don't fuck with cats (2019):

Documentary about people over the internet brings down the infamous murderer Luka Magnotta.

- The Great Hack (2019):

A great documentary for the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

- Justice League (2017):

Please don't flag, I'm not joking! The film itself didn't change anything. It was a little under my expectation. What happens following the release of the film, though, is the gem. The snydercut movement is a very rare phenomenon where a significant amount of people actually take action against disappointment from a change in a film's direction. Long story short, fans investigate how it could be and uncovered a great deal of what they think a miss-handling of a film production. It opened a window where we can see how moviemakers and everyone involved has their own political agenda and some actually falls for what they do. The movement is actually successful considering it has the power for the film industry to react and the fans seems to get what they wanted.

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A River Runs Through It

I loved the multi-threaded story--a love affair with fishing, a coming-of-age story, and an ode to the beauty of Montana in a simpler time. The movie was better than the book. My son has lived the first of those threads on rivers like the Nooksack in Washington. For me the movie articulated the transience of human existence and the receding beauty of the natural world as time passes--a fading that grows within us as we age.

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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…

My all time favorite movie. From the opening monologue by Carol Reed to the ending walk by Anna past Holly. The music. the fingers through the sewer grate. Cuckoo Clocks!

Fingers through the sewer, such a haunting scene

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Princess Mononoke [1] (1997) had an impact on how I value our environment and also was my gateway into anime [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke

> and also was my gateway into anime Slightly off topic, any recommendations on that area? I've never checked out any anime besides children shows and would like to see something good, preferably mature and recent, to see if I'm missing out on something cool.

Paprika. Watch it when your brain isn’t too fried as it is an incredible mind fuck. Enjoy!

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Going in a slightly different direction, the two saddest films I have ever seen are 火垂るの墓 / Grave of the Fireflies (1988 - Ghibli - Japan) and Hiss Dokhtarha Faryad Nemizanad / Hush! Girls Don't Scream (2013 - Iran). In both of them you can feel the exact moment when the protagonist loses hope and it really hits you. Both of them deserve a pretty strong warning--I guess the second one more of a true "trigger warning"…

I bought Grave of the Fireflies when it was first released on DVD and expected it be something I'd watch over and over again, why else buy the DVD right?

Nope. Saw it once, cried my eyes out and it sits cherished on my shelf, never watched a second time.

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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…

Yes, it so wonderfully crafted, all things leading to the father scene.

I was surprised to find out how low rated this movie is, because it's wonderful.

I think this movie killed my videogame addiction. I was refusing to go on trips with my family so I could play games. After this movie I could no longer find satisfaction in hour long game playing.

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The Japanese film "Black Rain(1989)" directed by Shohei Imamura is one of the most powerful movies I've even seen. It's about a young woman trying to have a marriage arranged after the Horoshima bombing. It has nothing to do with the US film of same name starring Michael Douglas. Seek it out.
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