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Re: Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?

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Post by anotherhue »

blhack wrote: post #8

Synecdoche 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…

I watch a lot of films, mostly older ones these days, I don't want to estimate how many.

This film has haunted me with its beauty. Not as airy as Mallick's work, a little softer than Aronofsky (The fountain, black Swan are masterpieces).

I think Mr. Nobody attempts a weaker version of this film, cloud atlas also.

Gattaca, inception, 2001, kpax maybe.

Re: Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?

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Post by willsmith72 »

screye wrote: post #90

Pig (2021) Male grief is never portrayed with the kind of nuance and empathy that it deserves. Now, I've started reaching out to my friends more often and offering support in a manner that only a fellow man can. Lastly, it loosened me up. I didn't have to bottle things up and be a pillar for other people. I can now be weak when I was in my weakest moments, and not percieve it as a weakness. (Holy alliteration)

> offering support in a manner that only a fellow man can

I guess I get the idea, but in what ways can only a fellow man provide support?

Re: Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?

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Post by shmoe »

alfor wrote: post #82
Havoc wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole matrix being a trans metaphor didn't even register for me until I heard about it in an interview on YouTube.

Funny, I think is it mostly seen as the opposite. That the media and government create a propaganda narative, a fake reality we live in. The red pill has become a symbol of breaking out of all the progressives lies.

Except that's literally what Wachowskis said -- the rest is right wing fan fiction.

Re: Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?

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Post by kimchidude »

quesera wrote: post #75
blhack wrote: post #8

Synecdoche 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…

Oh my. I love Philip Seymour Hoffman (RIP), but I found Synecdoche, New York to be sooo incredibly anti-interesting in its multiple layers of ironically unironic self-indulgence that I really truly hated the film. I have never had such a strongly negative reaction to any other movie. I'm having trouble thinking of a somehwat-close second. Maybe Blue Velvet ? If I heard someone else say that, I'd imagine that they had…

Wow I love both Synecdoche and Blue Velvet! What didn’t you like about Blue Velvet?

Re: Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?

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Post by vundercind »

jay3ss wrote: post #53

Annihilation

You might like Dual (2022)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(2022_film)

Not quite as heavy with the symbolism and not super-duper about dealing with terminal illness & loss like Annihilation (though… it does have more than a little of that going on). Similar feel otherwise. Also sci fi.

Maybe The High Life (2018).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Life_(2018_film)

Another sci fi. I haven’t sorted this one out as well as I have annihilation, but I’m pretty sure it’s also best read entirely figuratively.

And of course everybody who likes brooding symbolism-heavy films really must watch The Green Knight (2021)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Knight_(film)

(That one’s not sci fi)

Re: Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?

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Post by bandyaboot »

shmoe wrote: post #94
alfor wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, I think is it mostly seen as the opposite. That the media and government create a propaganda narative, a fake reality we live in. The red pill has become a symbol of breaking out of all the progressives lies.

Except that's literally what Wachowskis said -- the rest is right wing fan fiction.

Written by people who would likely disavow the movie entirely if they did 5 minutes of research on the Wachowskis.

Re: Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?

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Post by cybrjoe »

rio517 wrote: post #24

Gattaca, because so many people limit themselves by what they think is possible.

I’m happy someone mentioned this movie. I am constantly thinking about this quote:

> Vincent: You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.

Re: Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?

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Post by hgs3 »

Dark City (1998), Alex Proyas. This is an unmarketable movie. I consider knowing its genre to be a spoiler. It is one of those movies where the less you know about it, the better you're viewing experience. If you watch it you must watch the Directors Cut as the theatrical release was dumbed down by the studio execs.
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