Primer. Time travel paradoxes. Two guys accidentally build a time machine and their tests of it cause chaos in their lives.
Seems like a lot of responses think a movie needs a twist to be thought provoking. Not saying they’re wrong, but what about things that make you think about how screwed we are like “The Big Short” or “The Laundromat?” Movies like “Schindler’s List” make you think about human capacity for evil and compassion. “Blade Runner” brings up questions of what makes you a human.
Make no mistake, all the “twist” movies mentioned so far are great. Just trying to introduce another thread to the discussion.
Watched Black Klansman today, just made me think more about racism even though I think about it a lot anyways. Really great movie.
I heard good things about this movie. Have it on my movie list.
It’s really worth it. It has a great story, that is based on true events, fantastic actors (John David Washington and Adam Driver) and a great director (Spike Lee).
A masterpiece.
Really brilliant! I’m teary thinking that this kind of shit happens.
Magnolia is such an honest depiction of human fallibility. Almost unrivaled in its verisimilitude to modern life (or modern as of it’s release date). Incredible movie. Good shout.
After the Dark.
Thought experiment film about who would you take into a bunker to continue the human race?
I would advise that you stop watching after the students return their text books.
I haven’t heard about this, thanks.
The Man from Earth; low budget sci-fi mostly just people talking in a living room. I like how it plays with expectations about knowledge of history and explores different epistemologies of the supporting characters in their line of questions or how they engage with the core concept.
Not a movie but a limited series, Devs. You won’t know what’s going on for a while, but damn, I still think about it. Same guy who made Ex Machina and Annihilation. Great sound track.
I really liked Nine Days.
‘Rambo’ Laugh, if you want, but that flick made me realize how awfully governments treat Veterans. Non-Military guy here. Saw it in the nineties, must have been 11 or 12 or something like that.
Then ‘Philadelphia’ was pretty intense and made me realize reality holds more truths, than the narrow minded household I grew up in.
‘Milk’ was pretty eye opening, too.
“Soul” by Pixar. It’s very good.
The Seventh Seal [Ingmar Bergman, 1957]
As the plague ravages Scandinavia, a Swedish crusader returning home is greeted at the shore of his homeland by Death. To buy enough time to make it back to see his wife he challenges Death to a game of chess.
A film about different human reactions to the inevitability of death. One of Bergman’s masterworks.
Thanks for this thread, got a bunch of great suggestions!
Soul. It’s not ground breaking revelation of a question but it really made me think deeply about how I’m spending my limited time on this planet and what am I looking for in this world.
This movie was really upsetting for me. I enjoyed it a lot but it’s hard to separate it from the reality of the princess and the frog problem.
Why can’t Disney make a movie about black people without turning them non-human?
The Great Happiness Space. Its ostensibly about a male host club in Japan but shows how everyone is looking for, and selling happiness to others. Gals pour money into hosts to get their fake love and some will then turn around and work at soaplands themselves. Depressing really.
