What movie changed your perception of reality or life, and how?
Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?
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#2V for Vendetta weirdly change my perspective on concepts of right and wrong, and good and evil. Not in a major way, but just more so in a philosophical way.
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#3Fight Club and The Matrix, but I only understood the latter several years later.
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#4"The Man Who Never Was" 1956 British movie made me aware of just one of the MANY ways that Allied intelligence during World War 2 was able to fool the Nazis and potentially save many lives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Never_Was
Re: Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?
#5Fight Club and The Matrix, but I only understood the latter several years later.
What did you understand from the matrix?
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#6As an adult:
- Under The Skin - especially when I read excerpts of the book
As a teenager: - Syriana - The Matrix - Fight Club - Before Sunrise
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#7Fight Club in my late teens.
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#8Synecdoche NY, specifically this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9PzSNy3xj0
But there is also a scene (which I cannot find online) where the main character (a playwright) is explaining that the only way to make his play work is to make everybody a main character. He realizes that everybody, everywhere, is living out a rich life and that they're the main character of that life.
It is a fantastic movie and i highly recommend it.
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#9"Alone in the Wilderness" 2004
Made me move out of the city and off grid, buy a dog and find satisfaction in the simple life.
Re: Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?
#10Synecdoche NY, specifically this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9PzSNy3xj0 But there is also a scene (which I cannot find online) where the main character (a playwright) is explaining that the only way to make his play work is to make everybody a main character. He realizes that everybody, everywhere, is living out a rich life and that they're the main character of that life. It is a fantastic movie and i hi…
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