The classic: eXistenZ. Released just a few days after The Matrix, and that's probably why this astonishing movie is far less known. Much better IMO.
Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?
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#62Henry V (1989 film) I randomly saw it one night on PBS. I thought I had caught it in the middle of the movie, not realizing I turned it on the moment it started. I was pretty young and had no real interest in literature, the arts, whatever. But it looked neat "hey a dude in a castle" ... and I realized ... I kinda understood it. I couldn't explain it word for word in plain English, but I got the metaphors and the sto…
"And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by from this day until the ending of the world but we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother, Be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition, and gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves acursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speaks, that fought with us upon St. Crispin's day!"
Possibly Branagh's finest work delivering Sheakspeare's most rousing words.
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#63Life 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_…
> Ghost Dog (1999)
That really is a great movie. It doesn’t seem to get much attention, so I’m happy to see someone mentioning it here.
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#64My 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 couldn’t get through Click. I don’t think I even made it halfway. It was too disturbing.
Meanwhile actual horror movies rarely bother me. Go figure.
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#65Team 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-modified Game of Thrones theme from an episode of South Park. Those guys are uniquely good at writing ear worms I wish I’d never heard.
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#66Princess Mononoke [1] (1997) had an impact on how I value our environment and also was my gateway into anime
Re: Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?
#67Team 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…
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are absolute geniuses, derka derka
Edit: The Lord Song "Push" on South Park [1] was also a real banger ya ya ya
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#68Hello!
"The Game Changers" - Shows that a change in diet allowed world record elite athletes, special ops soldiers, among others, to absolutely improve their performance and health. Available on Netflix.
"Earthlings" - Absolutely changed the way I see and interact with animal products. Available to watch online for free: http://www.nationearth.com/
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#69Watched "They Live" [1] while working as a quant dev at a large bank in '09. Work the next day was super weird. [1] https://signal.org/blog/they-live/
Best fight scene ever!
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#70Brazil ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film) )
I will second that, I remember seeing it in the theater with my father in my teens, and it made a huge impression on me, skewering totalitarianism and glib postwar America in one jab.