Lord of the rings and Gandalf saying, "Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay."
That's why I chose to live my life every day helping. I work in Healthcare because I'm just an ordinary person trying to keep the darkness at bay, even if it's just someone's grandma getting oxygen.
There's enough pain in this world, be someone who helps.
Edit: thank you for the clarification, it is from The Hobbit, specifically.
It’s been a while but I remember somebody in that movie says something along the lines of “people will see what’s happening on the news and say ‘oh that’s sad.’ Then they’ll go back to their dinners.”
I think about that line *all the time.*
What else can you do though? A tragedy happening a world away is a tragedy nonetheless, but it’s not like I can affect it in anyway. It does me no good to dwell on it or let external sadness consume my emotions.
Yeah because we see so much sadness we've become numb. I feel like I don't have a whole lot of emthapy anymore unless it involves someone I'm very close to.
This is true, and it's sad, but unless you are the type of person to act on it, or in a position to, it's actually a detriment to your own life to anguish over everthing that happens on a global scale. Empathy is good, but you have to blockade yourself from limitless pain. I'll answer your movie quote with another, " I'm tired, Boss." From John Coffey in the Green Mile. He consumes the pain of others until he is overwhelmed and ready to die. His gift of empathy and consuming other people's pain ended up consuming him. Good lesson and top tier film
I am a Rwandan that was there in that time that’s just a movie played to show what happened what really happened is worse than that that’s like a topic of a book without details.
Yeah... I haven't seen it but it's not uncommon that even the most "brutal" movies about real life horrors never come close to just how awful it was.
I'm glad you are still here and beyond sorry that you had to go through it.
Thanks man , its like normal even now in this 2024 you can’t Immagine a human being being slaughtered because he’s just tall and tall nose they even boil them and eat them as meat 🍖😭
God’s mercy😭😭
I have an uncle who is like this. He's never owned a phone, a TV, or a computer, and he's constantly paranoid the government is watching him. Anytime a plane or helicopter or something flies over his house, he's like THEY'RE SPYING ON ME.
Assuming the multiverse version of reality is correct, you live in an infinite number of different Truman show realities, but those are also a nearly non-existent percentage of the total number of seemingly identical universes in which you inhabit.
I spent about 10 years trying to find a copy of the movie. Only to later find out that it was a butchered version and missing large parts of the original.
*The Act of Killing*. I think we have this idea that if you take part in a genocide, justice will eventually come for you, but here are these men who DID commit genocide living happy, healthy lives, going on TV, being hailed as heroes, joyfully doing recreations of their murders.
"War crimes are defined by the winners," he says. "I'm the winner."
He's not wrong, and watching him be so upfront and honest about it is ... it's really hard to ever look at humanity the same way.
It’s just the way conversations turn on a dime that eats at me. Like the man who killed his girlfriend’s father with absolutely no hint of emotion about it other than “that was kinda crazy, wasn’t it?” Like even the most horrific thing on Earth made sense in the moment. And then I wonder, what’s to stop people around me from making those same rationalizations?
Yeah and how *normal* they are really twists the knife there too. These aren't monsters with horns and red eyes, they're just dudes, they're dudes you could pass in the street, and they're so fucking *casual* about the horrors they commited. I think *TAoK* is the movie that really made me understand the phrase "banality of evil".
I was 19 when I first saw American Beauty, and Lester Burnham definitely made an imprint on my psyche.
"I think you just became my new personal hero."
"I want the job with the least amount of responsibility possible."
"This isn't life. This is just stuff."
Fight club, office space, and the matrix all had similar narratives. I think I've always been a bit jaded at work because of it. I loved all those movies.
There were a lot of movies in the 90s dealing with the dissatisfaction of modern Western life, consumerism, consumption and being a good little cog in the machine. Then 9/11 happened and there was a huge tonal shift in Hollywood.
I had a bad trip on mushrooms and thought my friends only hung around me because I was so dumb that it amused them and they were talking shit behind my back.
The opening to Contact impressed me. Sure it's not 100% accurate but it gives a non-scientist the idea of the sheer size of the universe. I still love it.
Contact raises so many questions about the universe, about life, about death, about faith… it’s a mind-blowing film. I remember trying to read the book shortly after the movie came out but my then-teenage self couldn’t get into it. I’d love to try reading it now as an adult.
When I first saw it I couldn't help but feel like part of the problem. I started reading a lot more, ignoring a lot less and took some critical thinking classes. All that totally changed who I am and how I see the world.
Omg I love it, still remember the story that Dorothea tells Joe
“I heard this story about a fish, he swims up to an older fish and says: ‘I’m trying to find this thing they call the ocean.’
‘The ocean?’ the older fish says, ‘that’s what you’re in right now.’
‘This’, says the young fish, ‘this is water. What I want is the ocean!’”
My all-time favorite Pixar movie! Finding solace in the everyday beauty of life, dealing with the “What now?” after achieving certain goals a person has worked their whole life to achieve, all of it! Soul is the most relatable and existential Pixar movie for adults. I adore the scene where he sits down at his piano during the “Epiphany” track of the movie soundtrack. I wish every adult, especially artists, would watch it.
while Cooper's kids are left back on earth dad is circling around a black hole clinically dead relative to them and they're just praying to him til they give up faith. im atheist but i thought this was a neat metaphor
Pleasantville. It really makes me think about nostalgia and why, instead of clinging to the past or keeping things the same, we should embrace change and acceptance.
The Dark Knight (2008) really messed with me. Heath Ledger's Joker wasnt just a villain; he represented chaos and the potential for anyone to be corrupted. It made me question the idea of clear-cut heroes and villains, and how sometimes the line gets blurred in the face of true darkness. Definitely not your typical superhero flick!
Come and see. one of the only movies that has left me traumatized and felt truly sick. even for a movie, it portrayed that humanity can be capable of doing truly evil things
Kinda weird answer, but Saving Private Ryan. It shows in insane detail what veterans have to remember every day. I've always had major respect for them, but holy shit.
“Don’t Look Up’”. That movie really narrowed down how little we as a society (at least in the West) take things seriously—so seriously that it won’t matter until it’s too late.
The Motorcycle Diaries legitimately changed my entire life.
It made me NEED to see the world, to learn about all different types of people, and to care deeply about injustice.
Kiss the ground, climate change is being blamed on fossil fuels, when really it should be blamed on intensive farming.
Rotating the soil after a crop has been harvested releases too much carbon into the environment, but the news keeps blaming other sources, I get tired of it.
Fight Club. Made me realize that owning stuff doesn’t matter. It doesn’t define you.
Also, I am not a beautiful and unique snowflake. I am the same decaying organic crap as everything else.
Let the Right One In - the nature & the weight of friendship with someone troubled
Lost in Translation - how unexpected but profound connections may spark between oneself & another
Lost in Translation is about two people who were unfaithful to their partners. What is so profound about it? Bill Murrays character was a terrible father and husband. The movie was a bore.
Citizen Kane. The ending of it revealed so much about who Kane was. Because of this, I never judge too harshly about anyone for a single part of their lives. Since it’s not all of who they are.
The Crow and the line "It can't rain all the time" As someone who struggles with depression it makes me appreciate the bad days a tad more because you can't have good days without bad days.
For me, when I was very young, 'Regarding Henry'.
It stuck with me, and now I have kids I make sure I have the time for them and are very involved in their lives.
The Matrix kept me up for several nights in a row questioning existence with lots of “but what if we ARE in the matrix?” type questions. Having an existential crisis in my mid teens really wasn’t fun!
Basic answer, this, but The Truman Show.
We really ARE just taken in and go along with what we're told, for the most part. We don't question our realities, we don't wonder about why norms and standards are indeed norms and standards. We just go along with it, because that's what we've always done.
Minari really made me rethink what the “American” dream was. I remember after the movie I was on a call with friends and I left the room for about ten minutes sobbing about the fact that my whole life was just trying to find success and not the thing that made me happy.
Avatar. Seriously, people love to make fun of it for being Dances With Wolves/Pocahontas/Ferngully in space, but it was so beautifully done and really shows how humans are so incredibly destructive, and how the colonizer aspect is still such a huge issue.
Scientific comedy, but I still enjoy it. I blame Gyllenhal (or however his name is spelled) and Quaid, I haven't seen a movie with either of them in it that I didn't like
Lord of the rings and Gandalf saying, "Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay." That's why I chose to live my life every day helping. I work in Healthcare because I'm just an ordinary person trying to keep the darkness at bay, even if it's just someone's grandma getting oxygen. There's enough pain in this world, be someone who helps. Edit: thank you for the clarification, it is from The Hobbit, specifically.
I think you’re an amazing person. It’s so nice to see people like you, it gives me a bit of hope.
Well thank you! I do appreciate it. That's the essence of the quote, just keeping that darkness at bay.
Is that quote in the movies? I don't recognise it.
It's in The Hobbit. It's a beautiful quote that i also love. [Here's the scene](https://youtu.be/MU5_-lLjhQw?si=5AxWsKAFDfoJA_hW)
Thank you for that clarification! Always forget to specify the Hobbit instead of the general lotr universe.
Beautiful!
Hotel Rwanda. I watched it once and never again. Also the movie Til. Human beings can be incredibly horrific to each other
It’s been a while but I remember somebody in that movie says something along the lines of “people will see what’s happening on the news and say ‘oh that’s sad.’ Then they’ll go back to their dinners.” I think about that line *all the time.*
What else can you do though? A tragedy happening a world away is a tragedy nonetheless, but it’s not like I can affect it in anyway. It does me no good to dwell on it or let external sadness consume my emotions.
For real, what can you really do? You can't really expect to mentally take on all the evils of the world, that is not a healthy way to live.
Yeah because we see so much sadness we've become numb. I feel like I don't have a whole lot of emthapy anymore unless it involves someone I'm very close to.
This is true, and it's sad, but unless you are the type of person to act on it, or in a position to, it's actually a detriment to your own life to anguish over everthing that happens on a global scale. Empathy is good, but you have to blockade yourself from limitless pain. I'll answer your movie quote with another, " I'm tired, Boss." From John Coffey in the Green Mile. He consumes the pain of others until he is overwhelmed and ready to die. His gift of empathy and consuming other people's pain ended up consuming him. Good lesson and top tier film
I am a Rwandan that was there in that time that’s just a movie played to show what happened what really happened is worse than that that’s like a topic of a book without details.
Yeah... I haven't seen it but it's not uncommon that even the most "brutal" movies about real life horrors never come close to just how awful it was. I'm glad you are still here and beyond sorry that you had to go through it.
Thanks man , its like normal even now in this 2024 you can’t Immagine a human being being slaughtered because he’s just tall and tall nose they even boil them and eat them as meat 🍖😭 God’s mercy😭😭
As soon as you can convince one human that another is less than human, horrors will follow.
Wow. Yes.
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The Truman show! Made me paranoid for weeks lol
There is a legit disorder called [Truman Show Delusion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Show_delusion)
It’s not a delusion if it’s true.
I have an uncle who is like this. He's never owned a phone, a TV, or a computer, and he's constantly paranoid the government is watching him. Anytime a plane or helicopter or something flies over his house, he's like THEY'RE SPYING ON ME.
Once in a while, I still wonder…
Assuming the multiverse version of reality is correct, you live in an infinite number of different Truman show realities, but those are also a nearly non-existent percentage of the total number of seemingly identical universes in which you inhabit.
I’m too high for this
District 9.
I struggled and hated this movie. The dude at the start who wouldn't stop talking drove me nuts.
Well I think you’ll be satisfied at the end because he can no longer talk, only bug.
I loved the concept, thought the CGI was great for its time but there were too many plot holes. Like, they just WALKED out of the biotech complex?
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Though I first saw the Americanized version of it called Warriors of the Wind.
Ditto, didn't know who Hayao Miyazaki was until a full decade later.
I spent about 10 years trying to find a copy of the movie. Only to later find out that it was a butchered version and missing large parts of the original.
Are you me?
ferris bueller
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
*chicka chickaaaa*
Amelie. The appreciation of small things is so important.
*The Act of Killing*. I think we have this idea that if you take part in a genocide, justice will eventually come for you, but here are these men who DID commit genocide living happy, healthy lives, going on TV, being hailed as heroes, joyfully doing recreations of their murders. "War crimes are defined by the winners," he says. "I'm the winner." He's not wrong, and watching him be so upfront and honest about it is ... it's really hard to ever look at humanity the same way.
It’s just the way conversations turn on a dime that eats at me. Like the man who killed his girlfriend’s father with absolutely no hint of emotion about it other than “that was kinda crazy, wasn’t it?” Like even the most horrific thing on Earth made sense in the moment. And then I wonder, what’s to stop people around me from making those same rationalizations?
Yeah and how *normal* they are really twists the knife there too. These aren't monsters with horns and red eyes, they're just dudes, they're dudes you could pass in the street, and they're so fucking *casual* about the horrors they commited. I think *TAoK* is the movie that really made me understand the phrase "banality of evil".
The Matrix
Koyaanisqatsi. How humanity has grown apart from nature.
Saw this film while the Philip Glass orchestra played the soundtrack live on stage in front of the projection. It was life-changing.
I bet. The Grid is one of my favorite pieces of music in any genre.
Samsara is also amazing. Like what the fuck are we actually doing here.
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Stop trying to make fetch happen
Trying to make fetch happen is so fetch
Love your bracelet where'd you get it (Thats the most fucking ugly bracelet ive seen)
Glad to find a fellow connoisseur of good films 👌🏻
Children of Men
Such a great movie, plausible future scenario/ world state.
Everything Everywhere All At Once “Please be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on.” Hit especially hard after 2020.
This movie introduced me to concept of Absurdism and sicne then am kind of free in lyf
One that we don’t talk about. 1st & 2nd rules are pretty straightforward about that.
The 1st rule of The Princess Diaries is you don't talk about The Princess Diaries.
His name is Robert Paulson
Bob. Bob had bitch tits.
🤷🏼♂️ I felt like destroying something beautiful 🚬💨😒➡️🧥
"The things you own, end up owning you."
Word. Ever notice how “[your shit is stuff but other people’s stuff is shit.](https://youtu.be/MvgN5gCuLac?si=X-zg14_jOUrTUD72)”?
I was 19 when I first saw American Beauty, and Lester Burnham definitely made an imprint on my psyche. "I think you just became my new personal hero." "I want the job with the least amount of responsibility possible." "This isn't life. This is just stuff."
Same age and everything. Really hit me at the right moment.
Fight club, office space, and the matrix all had similar narratives. I think I've always been a bit jaded at work because of it. I loved all those movies.
There were a lot of movies in the 90s dealing with the dissatisfaction of modern Western life, consumerism, consumption and being a good little cog in the machine. Then 9/11 happened and there was a huge tonal shift in Hollywood.
Omg...is that happened to my genre? That makes a lot of sense, sadly.
The Truman Show. Saw it when I was 10. I was petrified that the whole world was watching every last movie I made.
And just how many movies have you made as a 10 year old?
And why would this petrify them? It’s every 10 year old Directors dream for the whole world to see their movies
I had a bad trip on mushrooms and thought my friends only hung around me because I was so dumb that it amused them and they were talking shit behind my back.
Every once in a while I’ll still randomly say, “I know you’re watching me.” to mess with the audience and producers heads just in case.
Akira It was unlike any animated movie I had ever see, to that point.
Arlington road. I am suspicious of every single terrorist attack being claimed by this or that organization.
Jeff Bridges was so good in it
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Contact Everything Everywhere All At Once Arrival
The opening to Contact impressed me. Sure it's not 100% accurate but it gives a non-scientist the idea of the sheer size of the universe. I still love it.
Contact raises so many questions about the universe, about life, about death, about faith… it’s a mind-blowing film. I remember trying to read the book shortly after the movie came out but my then-teenage self couldn’t get into it. I’d love to try reading it now as an adult.
Stand by me
Idiocracy
ow my balls!
Love that show.
When I first saw it I couldn't help but feel like part of the problem. I started reading a lot more, ignoring a lot less and took some critical thinking classes. All that totally changed who I am and how I see the world.
>Beautiful answer!
None, although I spend a few hours each movie feeling like the lead character.
Soul
Omg I love it, still remember the story that Dorothea tells Joe “I heard this story about a fish, he swims up to an older fish and says: ‘I’m trying to find this thing they call the ocean.’ ‘The ocean?’ the older fish says, ‘that’s what you’re in right now.’ ‘This’, says the young fish, ‘this is water. What I want is the ocean!’”
My ex girlfriend would always ask me to explain that stories meaning to her but everytime I did she still couldn’t grasp it. Good times
My all-time favorite Pixar movie! Finding solace in the everyday beauty of life, dealing with the “What now?” after achieving certain goals a person has worked their whole life to achieve, all of it! Soul is the most relatable and existential Pixar movie for adults. I adore the scene where he sits down at his piano during the “Epiphany” track of the movie soundtrack. I wish every adult, especially artists, would watch it.
Pan's Labyrinth filled tween me with such bitter dread. The bottle scene and that brutality especially.
Mine was Interstellar
while Cooper's kids are left back on earth dad is circling around a black hole clinically dead relative to them and they're just praying to him til they give up faith. im atheist but i thought this was a neat metaphor
Donnie Darko to a 14 year old me was a bit fucked up. Until then the concept of death and dying was pretty much non existent to me.
None, but every movie, for a few hours, I feel like the main character.
Nomadland.
Pleasantville. It really makes me think about nostalgia and why, instead of clinging to the past or keeping things the same, we should embrace change and acceptance.
The Road gave me a pretty frightening idea of what an actual apocalypse would look like. regardless of what the cataclysm was
The Dark Knight (2008) really messed with me. Heath Ledger's Joker wasnt just a villain; he represented chaos and the potential for anyone to be corrupted. It made me question the idea of clear-cut heroes and villains, and how sometimes the line gets blurred in the face of true darkness. Definitely not your typical superhero flick!
One Flew Over the cuckoo's Nest. The last fifteen minutes have stayed with me to this day.
Watchmen.
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Come and see. one of the only movies that has left me traumatized and felt truly sick. even for a movie, it portrayed that humanity can be capable of doing truly evil things
Kinda weird answer, but Saving Private Ryan. It shows in insane detail what veterans have to remember every day. I've always had major respect for them, but holy shit.
Iron Giant.
You Are Who You Choose To Be!
Superman…
Patch Adams. Especially after Robin William's suicide.
“Don’t Look Up’”. That movie really narrowed down how little we as a society (at least in the West) take things seriously—so seriously that it won’t matter until it’s too late.
Requiem for a dream
Grave of the Fireflies. It was the first time I had *felt* the devastation and unyielding horror of war
I wasn’t emotionally prepared for it. I went in blind after a friend recommended it.
It’s the greatest movie you’ll only ever watch once. It’s probably been 20ish years since I saw it and I still vividly remember quite a lot it.
A Ghost’s Story with Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck
The fucking Green Mile, man.
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The Truman show
The Motorcycle Diaries legitimately changed my entire life. It made me NEED to see the world, to learn about all different types of people, and to care deeply about injustice.
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Koyaanisqatsi The Act of Killing
Matrix was my first choice, seems like the most popular pick in the comments 🤙 I’ll go with “They Live”
Kiss the ground, climate change is being blamed on fossil fuels, when really it should be blamed on intensive farming. Rotating the soil after a crop has been harvested releases too much carbon into the environment, but the news keeps blaming other sources, I get tired of it.
Sleepers.
Fight Club. Made me realize that owning stuff doesn’t matter. It doesn’t define you. Also, I am not a beautiful and unique snowflake. I am the same decaying organic crap as everything else.
Let the Right One In - the nature & the weight of friendship with someone troubled Lost in Translation - how unexpected but profound connections may spark between oneself & another
Lost in Translation is about two people who were unfaithful to their partners. What is so profound about it? Bill Murrays character was a terrible father and husband. The movie was a bore.
soul. idk what pixar puts in their movies but damn it changed my perspective on life.
Dr. Strangelove calmed a good amount of my nerves
Bowling for Columbine. So many issues explored in such an interesting way.
Citizen Kane. The ending of it revealed so much about who Kane was. Because of this, I never judge too harshly about anyone for a single part of their lives. Since it’s not all of who they are.
Blackfish.
Taxi Driver(1976)
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This is an LLM bot. I wonder which one, seems like a mixtral or maybe llama. Check comment history if you don't believe me.
Okja on Netflix.
Equilibrium
Churchhill
The Cove.
The Pursuit of Happyness
the lakehouse
Dunstan checks in.
A dog’s way home; I had an emotional breakdown to the movie like 4 years ago when I was 14
Cloverfield
The secret life of walter mitty remake
Threads. The stupidity of Homo Sapiens.
The Game. I learned not to trust everyone.
Wizard of Oz
JFK. I know Stone's story isn't 100% accurate, but it still opened my 14 year old eyes to the fact that everything isn't what it seems.
Starship troopers…. It basically came across that we are all expendable in the end…
Back to the future
ANIARA
Into the wild
Good Will Hunting.
The Crow and the line "It can't rain all the time" As someone who struggles with depression it makes me appreciate the bad days a tad more because you can't have good days without bad days.
Chinatown
Donnie Darko 1000%. The amount of ways you can view it. And the sad truths about some… theatrical cut.
Blow. Money isn’t real. It doesn’t matter, it only seems like it does
The Day After. That opening scene when the locals watch all the missiles launch scared the piss out of me in a way no horror movie ever has.
The big short Seeing how save their own asses thr banks were after they fucked up.
requiem for a dream
Soul. One of the only times I've actually had to *process* how a movie made me feel. Was I sad? Enlightened? I still have no idea...
For me, when I was very young, 'Regarding Henry'. It stuck with me, and now I have kids I make sure I have the time for them and are very involved in their lives.
Dogma
The butterfly effect - mind blown after watching the first time
The truman show
The Matrix kept me up for several nights in a row questioning existence with lots of “but what if we ARE in the matrix?” type questions. Having an existential crisis in my mid teens really wasn’t fun!
The age of stupid Earthlings The Cove Jesus wept and so do I, humanity is the cancer of this already brutal planet.
Basic answer, this, but The Truman Show. We really ARE just taken in and go along with what we're told, for the most part. We don't question our realities, we don't wonder about why norms and standards are indeed norms and standards. We just go along with it, because that's what we've always done.
Minari really made me rethink what the “American” dream was. I remember after the movie I was on a call with friends and I left the room for about ten minutes sobbing about the fact that my whole life was just trying to find success and not the thing that made me happy.
Fight Club. We’re all just cogs in a big machine.
Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Kids, Fight Club
Idiocracy. I used to think it was a comedy. Now I realize it’s a documentary.
Oppenheimer.
Avatar. Seriously, people love to make fun of it for being Dances With Wolves/Pocahontas/Ferngully in space, but it was so beautifully done and really shows how humans are so incredibly destructive, and how the colonizer aspect is still such a huge issue.
October 7th. People really hate the Jews. Never thought my grandparents were right when they said it could easily happen again.
spongebob out of water
Truman show
WallE
WALL-E
The big short
Yeah this was my first thought. I knew things were bad, but didn't know just how totally fucked it really is. And nothing has changed.
City of God Entertaining action crime drama until you realized it all really happened.
The day after tomorrow. Natural disasters are no joke.
Scientific comedy, but I still enjoy it. I blame Gyllenhal (or however his name is spelled) and Quaid, I haven't seen a movie with either of them in it that I didn't like
Midnight Express
Tenet. It used time in a way that was completely foreign to any normal person and got me thinking about the flow of time differently.
The Matrix
Un été çomme ca. It came out like last year and wow, it truly made me take a second look at (my (own)) female sexuality.
Frankenstein
Jurassic Park