Movies that made you think

[*Jess♥]

So, here we can talk about some movies that made us think about the world and life itself.

 

 

For me, I'm gonna start with Vanilla Sky.

such a quotable film, many great lines in it.

 

I suppose I'm always brought back to the line "i'm sofia", it's not such a good quote in itself but when you think about how emotionally charged it is, that is if you've seen the film.... It's so potent, it is like some nightmare, one person who looks like another person but claims to be that person, it's so twisted. 

But the film as it stands is a great story about how some people can live a true life or they can hide away and create a false reality.  it's all about shadow play and smoke and mirrors. it's a grand deception.

 

really made me think about what it would be like to live in a fantasy world. would I want to stay in a fantasy or would i prefer reality? I think fantasy is good for a while, but truth is important to me. I like to be able to trust what I see around me. trust is very important.

[Guest snow]

I used to watch that movie all of the time, Yuki. Wasn't David Ames living in a dream before Julie ran them both into a wall, and it was a terrible lesson for David. Terrible as in. He never really had to take any responsibility for anything. He treated people like they were just....acquaintances with money that served his own needs. He had no true friends. Sofia thought he was a creep who never stayed with him and poor Bryan was always getting pissed on by David. He was, I mean he really was a true friend who was just mad at David for being spoiled and rotten and it took a car wreck to bring David to reality. David had to face the reality that the doctors couldn't do squat about his face and his arm. The pain meds he was doped up on weren't helping with the pain. Sofia loved Brian, not him.. He couldn't handle being rejected and it was because of what happened with Julie that Sofia walked away. She didn't just want to be David's escort like Julie was. Julie loved David...in a creepy way like some women do some men. Men misuse women out of abusive love, women abuse men out of abusive love like a parent does a child. Love is complicated. You can hate someone and still love and miss them when they die. That's the reality of it all. I call it rough love. She wouldn't have hurt him, nor did she have any right. If he'd hadn't mistreated her. Examples for Julie- David used her like a piece of ass. Julie started sleeping with David to gain financial pro's and cons. Julie grew attached. David didn't grow attached,he was just in it for the sex. Julie gets jealousy issues from seeing David flirt with other Women. Brian stabs David in the back ( well deserved.) Tells Julie the truth. Julie goes nuts. Julies runs David off a bridge with her so she can die with him (Failed) David has to live with the consequences of what his actions caused. Reality- Our actions cause chain effects in other peoples lives. Both good and bad. Cause and Effect.

Edited March 20, 2014 by Jupiter-Prime

[Guest snow]

I just think since David's parents died. He had no one to guide him. He would have valued things more like morals and principles over flaunting his money and his business and sleeping around. He would have had better morals and principles. These things were essential. But his parents died and I think it caused long term emotional damage for David. He craved attention. Something he missed out on when he was 11 after the accident.

[RazorLaser]

The Man From Earth

[Shin Mefilas]

The Fountain, Mermaids Forest and the Phoenix Karma and Space Chapters  have all got me thinking deeply on the subject of immortality and the meaning of life. I think I gained a much greater appreciation for life as a whole from watching them as well as a getting a very horrible realisation of just how much of a curse immortality would be.

[Guest snow]

The Matrix. ( film series)

 

It made me think about how ( The Matrix) showed society as a corrupt system and how (the Matrix) reflected that. It also showed that some individuals can exploit society. It gave some examples in a fictional way. If you watch it enough you'll start to notice what they mean.

[Guest snow]

I recently watched The Dallas Buyers Club. Its about a guy who had a lot of unprotected sex, used illegal narcotics like blow and meth and he has an accident and finds out from the doctors that he is HIV Positive and has less than a month to live. So he goes to Mexico and stays in the hospital there for 3 weeks and the doctor treats his AIDS with some illegal NON-FDA APPROVED MEDICINES and gets him weened off of the NARCOTICS and gets his health stabilized. So he lives past the month he was supposed to DIE during. He decides he wants to help other people who have aids and he even sleeps with HIV POSITIVE women. He starts The Dallas Buyers Club where he can sell all this un approved FDA drugs to people with AIDS. So he makes a lot of money selling his drugs and the IRS comes and takes his money and drugs. Anyways its a good movie about a guy who still fights with hope even though he has a death sentence with AIDS.

 

What I learned from this movie is that anyone can get AIDS without protection. But I'm glad and I feel lucky that I've never gotten a deadly STD like that. I don't know what I would do or how I would handle that. I just feel so lucky and relieved that never happened to me.

[*V Guyver]

The Andersonville Trial (1970)

Watched it years ago as a rerun when I was a kid. Just recently came across it again via an article. Finally knew the name. It's based off the real war crime trial on real events from the Civil War. It's controversy that has never ended in the US. It's comparable to a Nazi trial, except it's not an nazi, it's an immigrant who is possibly scapegoated. It's a really well done drama, a bit long. But it makes you wonder, what is right in the chain of command. WHo takes responsibility for when men under your care die. What do you do? What is the moral code? Should you sacrifice yourself... should you die, or let them die. It's all interesting. 

Got it via torrent. So it's worth a view. 

Also to note is the film "Kids" (1995)  About how youth, sex, and STD's are mixed with daily culture, mistakes, and lack of education. All resulting in tragedy. The movie is gritty real, and disturbing, and sometimes you laugh because of the ignorance of the teenagers... but then you realize this is reality. Should probably be shown in all high schools for sex ed. But people would protest it in teh US. >> 

[*PrimalNemesis]

The one that comes to mind is The End of Evangelion. To this date I still can't figure the frigging thing out!

[Toku Warrior]

I agree with U there, Sevastian.

[LordSpleach]

With End of Evangelion, I think of it like this...

 

The last episode of the series is what was going on in Shinji's mind or the mental reality. The movie is what happened in the physical reality.

 

Though it's the motivations behind the Human Instrumentality Project that truly make go "Why?"

[Guest Jupiter-Prime]

I didn't get Evangelion much either. It started confusing the sh*t out of me more towards the end. Like it started out good, than the further it went. The more down hill the story went.

[Toku Warrior]

The newer movies made for it though, best sh*t made for Evangelion by far.

[Guest Jupiter-Prime]

Ghost In The Shell, The Puppet Master and the plot got me to doing a lot of thinking.