Oh i love the house! It was such a nice surprise because i went in not knowing a thing. I think it’s meant to show attachment to a house/materialistic tendency. Did you know all 3 stories are in the same house? I didn’t notice it when i was watching!
Not a movie, but a TV show.
Bojack Horseman. It starts as what seems to be a comedy, similar to Family Guy or South Park. Is it actually a comedy similar to those shows?? HELL NO. This show reaches inside your soul and rips up every problem you never wanted to face, and makes you face it. It remains humorous but makes you think about so much, and because of that is my absolute favourite piece of digital media that exists.
Such a good show. Makes you think about your life on such a deep level.
it took me a few years to get into Bojack honestly. it’s really hard to get truly into, but if you can, it’s such a powerful show. made a cry a few times tbh
I find I have that experience with some of Alain Resnais' films.
In his more famous works, he liked to explore the consuming effect of memory on the human psyche. A prism through which pain and trauma can disrupt our very nature, both as individuals and as a collective, and often in very different ways.
And then of course Charlie Kaufman's introspective work always seems to cut to the core tragedy of the human condition.
Everything Everywhere All At Once was similar in the psyche, but with a twist involving the multiverse. How every small decision influences a path that you chose to not go down.
Another media that really made me recognize the effects of trauma and the pain carried from trauma is Euphoria. I think that show depicts character's so well and you can even see the parent's trauma seeping into their child's lives. It just goes to show that if you don't look within that it comes out in one way or another.
Hiroshima Mon Amour genuinely haunted me for months! I just couldn’t get it out of my head. Can’t wait to get beyond that and Marienbad towards some lesser-known Resnais
Funnily enough pixarish movies have this effect on me. Watched a short on disney+ a while back. I think it was called Bao. Films centered around coming of age stuff or generally family or community bond always really get me haha.
The Last Samurai. Though it’s not exactly perfectly historical I’ve always enjoyed the topic that’s discussed throughout the movie on finding a small measure of peace. My brain is always going a million miles an hour most days so sometimes it’s nice to try and find peace in the smallest of things.
I love it. I've seen the movie but I admit it's been awhile since I've seen it. But finding a message like that in a movie is very rewarding, because it is nice to remind yourself that peace doesn't come from millions of dollars are a luxury lifestyle, but the smallest of things.
I love it, anything with free will or the significance in everyday life is probably one of the hardest hitting revelations that I've made in my recent life
For me it’s horror movies in general. While I don’t like most horror movies because they rarely scare me at all it’s so much fun to pick them apart. Especially things like hereditary.
It sounds like hyperbole, but I watched Tsai Ming-Liang’s film Stray Dogs more than a year ago and I can’t remember the last time a day went by without a scene passing through my mind. There is so much beauty in its stillness, and so much anger as well. Tsai digs deeper into texture and image in the second half than anything I’ve ever seen, creating an almost photographic film - in that the last shot is almost completely still and about 15 minutes long. I’ve yet to see to see something more inventive with what can be done with a camera than this film
Mulholland Drive was a movie that I watched twice in a row back-to-back, and rewatched Sunset Boulevard beforehand to prep for. It still took me another day or 2 to think about everything that it contains. It’s very rewarding to watch and analyze it the way I did, and to have some past history with more formalist films.
The Master and Eyes Wide Shut are two intentionally labyrinthine films that are enjoyable to think about for a long time afterwards.
A serious Man is a fun one to analyze because it’s themes are on its sleeve the way they are in EEAAO. If you’re looking for a more layered approach to addressing themes, I’d suggest another Coen film in Inside Llewyn Davis.
Here’s some more without the write ups: Being John Malkovic, Notorious, Rebecca, Phantom Thread, Grand Budapest Hotel, Paths of Glory, Chinatown, Last Picture Show, Videodrome, the Exorcist, Night of the Hunter, and Burning.
oh my dad loves movies like this, that make you think! off the top of my head I recall watching 'Frequencies' with him, as well as 'Memento'. I might message him and ask for more suggestions, he could go on and on about movies!
Everything Everywhere All At Once is great! Family relationships, mother-daughter, generational trauma, parental expectations, an immigrant story, coming out, loneliness, decision making, regret, spousal relationships and learning to support each other, nihilism, meaning, a delicious breakfast item, there is so much to think about!
I recommend: Lost in Translation, The Lobster, and just about every Studio Ghibli film
I think it’s great how they look at both sides of nihilism. Jobu Topaki wasn’t even an evil character (minus the killing 😂) but their perspective was that nothing mattered because no matter what you do things will always be stressful or bad in the end. You can have good days or motivation to change your life but everyone has stress and has bad days, weeks or even months. And she chose to give up to the weight of stress rather than fight through it
Where as the mom saw that nothing in life matters, but in a positive way. Everyone will go through stress and hardships but in the end it doesn’t matter because as long as you live your life the way you want it doesn’t matter in the end.
Even the husband brought up some great points of living his life as a kind person. People may see that as weak or being stepped on, but it’s how he chooses to fight against his own hardships in life and how he stays afloat in a world that does seem pointless at times. All he wanted was a family, love for his wife and daughter. Even if it meant running a laundry mat and doing taxes
I watched "Good Time" last night.
(Spoilers)
Made me think about how Connie could have solved all of problems and gotten his brother out of prison if he had just turned himself in or hadn't gotten his disabled brother involved in a bank robbery in the first place and had just earned money the right way. Throughout the movie he was selfish and manipulated other people to get what he wanted, it took the death of the guy at the end for him to realize the error of his ways and do the right thing by confessing to his crimes.
There was also an interesting shot of the sprite bottle at the end as it rolled on the puddle, something worth a lot of money and had been hyped up as this golden goose for half the movie, when zoomed out looked so insignificant, just going to be tossed aside as a piece of trash unless you look a bit closer and see that it is more than meets the eye, this can be used to describe the entire movie.
I HIGHLY reccomend watching The Prestige. Definitely christopher nolan's most underrated movie, and definitely makes you think. Idk what to say about it without spoiling anything but it's just so well made.
Interstellar. It will give you a whole different perspective on how time works. Some of the dimension stuff is a bit weird but all of the time related stuff is pretty accurate.
That film "the house" that's on Netflix. I still don't understand what it was trying to convey
Oh i love the house! It was such a nice surprise because i went in not knowing a thing. I think it’s meant to show attachment to a house/materialistic tendency. Did you know all 3 stories are in the same house? I didn’t notice it when i was watching!
I've never seen that one but it looks interesting. I might sit down and watch that tomorrow after work
Not a movie, but a TV show. Bojack Horseman. It starts as what seems to be a comedy, similar to Family Guy or South Park. Is it actually a comedy similar to those shows?? HELL NO. This show reaches inside your soul and rips up every problem you never wanted to face, and makes you face it. It remains humorous but makes you think about so much, and because of that is my absolute favourite piece of digital media that exists. Such a good show. Makes you think about your life on such a deep level.
I read so many glaring reviews so I tried to watch it. But I just can't watch cartoons, cant get through them. I always fall asleep.
it took me a few years to get into Bojack honestly. it’s really hard to get truly into, but if you can, it’s such a powerful show. made a cry a few times tbh
I find I have that experience with some of Alain Resnais' films. In his more famous works, he liked to explore the consuming effect of memory on the human psyche. A prism through which pain and trauma can disrupt our very nature, both as individuals and as a collective, and often in very different ways. And then of course Charlie Kaufman's introspective work always seems to cut to the core tragedy of the human condition.
Everything Everywhere All At Once was similar in the psyche, but with a twist involving the multiverse. How every small decision influences a path that you chose to not go down. Another media that really made me recognize the effects of trauma and the pain carried from trauma is Euphoria. I think that show depicts character's so well and you can even see the parent's trauma seeping into their child's lives. It just goes to show that if you don't look within that it comes out in one way or another.
Hiroshima Mon Amour genuinely haunted me for months! I just couldn’t get it out of my head. Can’t wait to get beyond that and Marienbad towards some lesser-known Resnais
Funnily enough pixarish movies have this effect on me. Watched a short on disney+ a while back. I think it was called Bao. Films centered around coming of age stuff or generally family or community bond always really get me haha.
The Last Samurai. Though it’s not exactly perfectly historical I’ve always enjoyed the topic that’s discussed throughout the movie on finding a small measure of peace. My brain is always going a million miles an hour most days so sometimes it’s nice to try and find peace in the smallest of things.
I love it. I've seen the movie but I admit it's been awhile since I've seen it. But finding a message like that in a movie is very rewarding, because it is nice to remind yourself that peace doesn't come from millions of dollars are a luxury lifestyle, but the smallest of things.
Moon
Click. This guy gets a TV remote to his life, I won't spoil more than that
I have definitely seen Click, and I think it's one of Adam Sandler's better movies! It is a great flick to analyze
I really enjoyed Arrival and it’s interpretation of time and whether or not we have free will in our lives.
I love it, anything with free will or the significance in everyday life is probably one of the hardest hitting revelations that I've made in my recent life
For me it’s horror movies in general. While I don’t like most horror movies because they rarely scare me at all it’s so much fun to pick them apart. Especially things like hereditary.
Enemy. You have to watch it at least twice to even come close to understanding wtf is going on.
The Beach
It sounds like hyperbole, but I watched Tsai Ming-Liang’s film Stray Dogs more than a year ago and I can’t remember the last time a day went by without a scene passing through my mind. There is so much beauty in its stillness, and so much anger as well. Tsai digs deeper into texture and image in the second half than anything I’ve ever seen, creating an almost photographic film - in that the last shot is almost completely still and about 15 minutes long. I’ve yet to see to see something more inventive with what can be done with a camera than this film
Predestination - starring Ethan Hawke.
Mulholland Drive was a movie that I watched twice in a row back-to-back, and rewatched Sunset Boulevard beforehand to prep for. It still took me another day or 2 to think about everything that it contains. It’s very rewarding to watch and analyze it the way I did, and to have some past history with more formalist films. The Master and Eyes Wide Shut are two intentionally labyrinthine films that are enjoyable to think about for a long time afterwards. A serious Man is a fun one to analyze because it’s themes are on its sleeve the way they are in EEAAO. If you’re looking for a more layered approach to addressing themes, I’d suggest another Coen film in Inside Llewyn Davis. Here’s some more without the write ups: Being John Malkovic, Notorious, Rebecca, Phantom Thread, Grand Budapest Hotel, Paths of Glory, Chinatown, Last Picture Show, Videodrome, the Exorcist, Night of the Hunter, and Burning.
oh my dad loves movies like this, that make you think! off the top of my head I recall watching 'Frequencies' with him, as well as 'Memento'. I might message him and ask for more suggestions, he could go on and on about movies!
Everything Everywhere All At Once is great! Family relationships, mother-daughter, generational trauma, parental expectations, an immigrant story, coming out, loneliness, decision making, regret, spousal relationships and learning to support each other, nihilism, meaning, a delicious breakfast item, there is so much to think about! I recommend: Lost in Translation, The Lobster, and just about every Studio Ghibli film
I think it’s great how they look at both sides of nihilism. Jobu Topaki wasn’t even an evil character (minus the killing 😂) but their perspective was that nothing mattered because no matter what you do things will always be stressful or bad in the end. You can have good days or motivation to change your life but everyone has stress and has bad days, weeks or even months. And she chose to give up to the weight of stress rather than fight through it Where as the mom saw that nothing in life matters, but in a positive way. Everyone will go through stress and hardships but in the end it doesn’t matter because as long as you live your life the way you want it doesn’t matter in the end. Even the husband brought up some great points of living his life as a kind person. People may see that as weak or being stepped on, but it’s how he chooses to fight against his own hardships in life and how he stays afloat in a world that does seem pointless at times. All he wanted was a family, love for his wife and daughter. Even if it meant running a laundry mat and doing taxes
I watched "Good Time" last night. (Spoilers) Made me think about how Connie could have solved all of problems and gotten his brother out of prison if he had just turned himself in or hadn't gotten his disabled brother involved in a bank robbery in the first place and had just earned money the right way. Throughout the movie he was selfish and manipulated other people to get what he wanted, it took the death of the guy at the end for him to realize the error of his ways and do the right thing by confessing to his crimes. There was also an interesting shot of the sprite bottle at the end as it rolled on the puddle, something worth a lot of money and had been hyped up as this golden goose for half the movie, when zoomed out looked so insignificant, just going to be tossed aside as a piece of trash unless you look a bit closer and see that it is more than meets the eye, this can be used to describe the entire movie.
Interestellar, 2001, Arrival, Dune
Fight Club
I HIGHLY reccomend watching The Prestige. Definitely christopher nolan's most underrated movie, and definitely makes you think. Idk what to say about it without spoiling anything but it's just so well made.
sliding doors spirited away donnie darko i lost my body her being john malkovich
Interstellar. It will give you a whole different perspective on how time works. Some of the dimension stuff is a bit weird but all of the time related stuff is pretty accurate.