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Movies with great impact on me: 1. Untouchable - must see 2. Gattaca - are we going there? 3. 1984 - must see 4. Idiocracy - initially looks like joke/stupid movie, but it's more real then we may want to agree 5. Life of others (made in Ge) 6. Amelie Poulain (made in Fr) 7. Turtles can fly (made in Ir) 8. Stalker - the russian original (3 parts) (made in Ru) 9. Metropolis Other good movies: Lost Horizon The Bucket Li…
Snowpiercer Most people see this movie as a very on-the-nose example of class struggle. But I see it as a commentary on how we humans build and interact with the very system that we collectively create to sustain ourselves as a species. The system always has its apologists, supporters and opposition, but deep down all but the most extreme zealots understand that the system has to change with time or fail, and the lon…
One word you mention though -- "Hypernormalisation" -- reminds me of a film that made me see the world differently. I don't know if you intentionally used that term, but the Adam Curtis film Hypernormalisation is, I believe, an absolute must watch, probing for some clarification on the logic of the last 40-50 years of history in our capitalist/neoliberal society.
Oh, too many. First coming in mind: Harold and Maude (1971), Taking Off (1971), Blade Runner (1982), Repo Man (1984), Brazil (1985), They Live (1988)
I would suggest "The Big Short". It mainly focuses on the huge disaster of the 2008 financial bubble, and what led up to it. Before watching the movie I had this feeling of how impossible it could have been for so many normal people to be screwed over so royally. The crisis obviously happened, but I lacked the understanding of how something like that could have happened. After the movie it was clear to me how systemi…
Rest in piece Spalding Gray.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_to_Cambodia [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spalding_Gray
Vera drake. It's about a woman who does abortions when it was illegal in UK. She is caught and ends up in jail. It shows whatever your stance on abortion that making it illegal doesn't stop it and is risky for women The film also shows the hypocrisy of the well off woman who can still get an abortion. While the poor can't access this Finally when the film was released it struggled in America as people expected Vera d…
> It shows whatever your stance on abortion that making it illegal doesn't stop it That’s not an argument. Making homicide illegal does not stop serial killers, is this a good reason for legalizing homicide? I am not taking a side on the dispute, but: are you in favor of abortion? Then just say openly that, according to your system of values, a fetus of N months can be rightfully killed, for some value of N.
Tree of Life - Tererence Malick Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky
Jiro Dreams of Sushi. It highlights the true nature of mastery, how deep it goes, and what an actual master looks like. One of the chefs needed 10 years of experience before they would let him do the egg sushi. There's the deep networks that support it too, the master fishmongers, the master rice planters, and all the master brokers in between who knew how to find the good stuff.
> One of the chefs needed 10 years of experience before they would let him do the egg sushi. That only ever struck me as extremely pretentious, to be perfectly honest. The chef in question needing 10 years of experience before they would let him do the egg sushi strikes me as essentially the same harmful mentality the Japanese have toward productivity, thinking that clocking in as many hours as possible equals produc…
I would suggest "The Big Short". It mainly focuses on the huge disaster of the 2008 financial bubble, and what led up to it. Before watching the movie I had this feeling of how impossible it could have been for so many normal people to be screwed over so royally. The crisis obviously happened, but I lacked the understanding of how something like that could have happened. After the movie it was clear to me how systemi…
I didn't see any normal people getting screwed in the movie.
p.s. but the parent poster is probably referring to the people who were duped into a floating rate mortgage, or the idea of paying nth mortgage with n+1th mortage (which is reasonable as long as rates decrease/stay low forever), or retail investors/small time investors who bought securities they were assured were high quality but were not. These people didn't get much screen time (beginning of movie bankers, line of side bets at the roulette table)