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

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Post by kls »

gedy wrote: post #170
kls wrote: post #166

I would say the following had a profound effect on me: The Reflecting Skin - I found the movie to be quite disturbing to the point that I felt mentally violated having watch it. While I would not say I was traumatized by it, in a strange way having the feeling of I wish I would have never seen that, has allowed me to empathize with people that have been truly traumatized. I guess you could say the move takes you righ…

The Reflecting Skin - was just very powerful and in my top movies.

I literally walked away from that movie and said to my buddy, that I watched it with "WTF, I feel like I just got mentally raped", it is really that powerful of a movie. It disturbs me that a human mind could conceive of that story.

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kls wrote: post #166

I would say the following had a profound effect on me: The Reflecting Skin - I found the movie to be quite disturbing to the point that I felt mentally violated having watch it. While I would not say I was traumatized by it, in a strange way having the feeling of I wish I would have never seen that, has allowed me to empathize with people that have been truly traumatized. I guess you could say the move takes you righ…

Almost forgot about "The Road" - The movie makes you experience the bleakness of hopelessness.

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Post by abnercoimbre »

hellisothers wrote: post #222
Eyght wrote: post #179

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…

You beat me to it. I Happened to watched this movie after reading a couple books on modernity and postmodernism and was blown away by how much this movie touched on identity, the self and society. I watched it with two friends, one who also has read similar books and another who hasn’t. The guy who didn’t have the extra background thought it was just ok so YMMV.

Mind recommending the books that touch on Snowpiercer's themes? Would love to get them.

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Post by ilaksh »

Zeitgeist: The Movie. Which might totally deconstruct your worldview.

But as far as what next, technocracy usually oversimplifies and fails to integrate an understanding of the successes of capitalism and some of the failures of socialism.

Because technocracy usually assumes a type of AI-based central planning and has little or no room for markets. But I believe that any realistic plan must have accomodations for some significant amount of competition and inequality as well as a strong emphasis on facilities to evolve the system and have types of local specialization.

So my belief is that we do need a more holistic view of information and more ways to track and regulate than is provided by the basic concept of assigning monolithic points (money) which is also a gross oversimplification, but there also needs to be some concept like that, just more sophisticated. Such as tracking points available for different categories of things or autotaxing different activities or just tracking resources per transaction.

So I think it will not work to get rid of money, but we need money to be much smarter and less one dimensional etc.

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Post by RichardCA »

kqr2 wrote: post #263
RichardCA wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Thanks, I like the song because it's still funny outside the context of the movie.

Parker and Stone predicted the whole thing, that the 80's retro style with the requisite synth track would catch on. And this was back in 2004.

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Post by cumulyst »

zwieback wrote: post #89

I grew up in Germany and maybe around 1980 we watched "Die Brücke" in school. It's about a group of unprepared teenagers made to defend a bridge against advancing US troops. I don't really know if it's that good but left me shaken.

I still see the various characters of Die Brücke in my colleagues around me during my daily working life, watching them in futile defence of long lost bridges

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Post by Balgair »

The Apartment (1960) staring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine: "A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue."

Great comedy, great film. The twist ending is also amazing.

It made me see that though 'the past' may be a foreign country, but we're all people just the same. The problems they had, and that we have, are the same problems. The good ol' days never existed. And we can learn from our forefathers, not as semi-divine laws and sayings, but as one would learn from a friend.

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