Don’t ask me why, but the couple of scenes with the Jurassic Park sys admin stuff made me want to get into computers.
Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?
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#42Recently, Midsommer. I think if you go into it with an open mind (and not get too weirded out by the gore) it asks some really fascinating anthropological and social questions.
By the end of the movie, I was almost entirely on the side of the culture and their behavior made complete sense to me. During the course of the movie I experienced a shift of position and perspective and continues to affect me 4 years later.
All the token others… Pi, Memento, Waking Life, Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream, etc. etc.
I felt like Midsommer was the best interesting film in decades.
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#43Fucking Amal
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#44A Most Violent Year Barry Lyndon Breaking the Maya Code Equilibrium Margin Call Moonfall Good Kill Godzilla vs Kong Inception Seven Days in May Simone The Leopard / Il Gattopardo Trudell Until the End of the World
I don’t want to sound like a snob, but Godzilla vs Kong looks pretty out of place on that list. Can I ask what put it on your list?
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#45Blade Runner, as it was the first one I saw that was about the meaning of memories and beliefs.
I actually liked The 6th Day when it comes to ideas of our "natural" view on identity and ownership of individual assets etc.
Matrix, of course, for its search for reality/truth behind ones inherited perceptions, no matter what consequences (there are more ideas in the movies, though).
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#46Fight Club and The Matrix, but I only understood the latter several years later.
The whole matrix being a trans metaphor didn't even register for me until I heard about it in an interview on YouTube.
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#47Contact
What would aliens be like if they've existed a billion years longer than us?
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#48The Man From Earth
Can't describe this without giving it away.
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#49Recently, Midsommer. I think if you go into it with an open mind (and not get too weirded out by the gore) it asks some really fascinating anthropological and social questions. By the end of the movie, I was almost entirely on the side of the culture and their behavior made complete sense to me. During the course of the movie I experienced a shift of position and perspective and continues to affect me 4 years later.…
fwiw, Midsommer also has the best approximation of psylocibin visual come-up in video format that I’ve found
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