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12-06-2002, 09:18 AM
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| ^_^  Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Southern California
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 |  Favorite and most thought-provoking movies? Just out of curiousity. What are the most deep thought-provoking movies that any of you have viewed? Deepness of feeling and self questioning about how the movie made you felt are encouraged, I would love to see the inner feelings of all of you on how these movies may have left you feeling, whether it having to do with religion, views on life, hatred for life, or anything really stirring of the mind. For me, the brightest image of a deeply thought felt movie would have to be American Beauty. It may even have changed my entire views on life, and the depth of common things. The main theme was, 'look closer' .. and I feel that the writers and creators of the movie had done a great job on helping me do so.. Although, when I had first viewed the movie, I had a negative mood to life inside of me. Looking at all of the negative parts and happenings of the movie allowed me to feel a stronger hatred for life. If you have seen the movie only once, I advise watching it a second or a third time. Another movie- Seven, although the tone and message of the film was a lot different than the meaning transposed onto me, had, when deeply looked at, invoked fear into me for the committing of religion. In views and popular belief, God is believed to be portrayed as a benevolent being. If this were the case, then why has he extracated so much suffering onto common people, in order for them to force belief upon themselves. It, in common terms, is like holding a gun to someone's head and telling them to love you. Although this is a very bleak and shallow view, I'll admit, it is what looking deeper into the message of the movie has given me. Just my 2 cp, and would definately like to hear other added opinions and movies refrences. - Silywuns, 65 Transcendant, 150 AA |
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12-06-2002, 02:23 PM
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| A Relic  Join Date: Jan 2002
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| If you want a movie that speaks more clearly, and yet very cryptically, about the American experience than perhaps any other, check out Robert Altman's Nashville (1975). It's not the most conventionally "entertaining" movie out there, but it rewards the careful viewer with infinite tricks, cleverness, and thought-provoking splendor.
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12-07-2002, 10:06 PM
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| Sphere Yes Sphere did make me think a lot, a lot about the concept of time, and how I lost 134 minutes of it I'll never get back, and another 134 minutes making sure it was as bad as I thought the first time only to be reassured it was. How about Memento for thought-provoking? Blade Runner... Frailty... Contact... yes Seven... The Matrix... Total Recall... in the sense that they make you think about them all long after seeing them for the first time. I'm sure there are more I'm missing. |
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12-08-2002, 07:13 PM
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+16 Internets | That's not my favorite movie, but certainly the most thought provoking one I saw: "Hitler: Ein Film aus Deutschland" http://us.imdb.com/Title?0076147 I will not try to pretend I stayed awake and focused for the whole 7h30 of the movie but I saw the vast majority of it :P When a friend of yours die, it takes some time to get over it, to digest and assimilate the fact that (s)he is dead. The very ambitious purpose of Syberberg's movie is about the same: understanding and closing the case of Hitler, to close the wound he represents in the german identity and in the history of democracy. It's not a fiction nor a documentary btw. It's an essay on film. Let me translate an extract of it, a part of a monologue of a puppeteer talking to Hitler’s puppet in a set evoking Edison's studio the Black Mary. Read it out loud, take a clock and then imagine 7h30 of that... and be scared... there are lighter and easier to understand parts though  "Let's suppose we are in front of Hitler like in front of the Christ for the Judgement Day and that he asks us "What have you done of the world and your life after me, without me?". The ultimate court with the devil as supreme judge. The merry apocalypse, at least, and the darkest of the messes. His great praise of the world's progress. La real feast of the victory at the end of the world. The history of the death of the light, from the holy Grail to the fall of the occident. As was Thomas Mann saying at the new year's eve of 1938: "God helps our country, that one darken and abuse, and teaches it to make peace with itself and with its world". What will he say today? And our children tomorrow? Seeing what we have done with our freedom and with ourselves: soulless dwarves in the empty face of a plastic puppet, mirror of ours cities and our languages - and they made the gods in their image. Finish of our current existence, a new Familly of Men (in english in the original text) in the monstrous pre-built village of our lost liberty. The liberty without a human face: Hitler, here is your victory!"
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