Food, Inc. Even though it's a documentary, I had never really thought about how the food industry really worked before this. It was disturbing and changed how I look at food and food production.
Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever, both classics but Do The Right Thing if you only see one.
More recently Slumdog Millionaire.
Kurosawa made a beautiful movie about a civil servant dying of cancer and deciding to make build a playground in some waste ground his life's work called 'To Live', it's black and white subtitled and 50 odd years old and brings me to tears every time.
Kurosawa made a beautiful movie about a civil servant dying of cancer and deciding to make build a playground in some waste ground his life's work called 'To Live', it's black and white subtitled and 50 odd years old and brings me to tears every time.
That's the one that I was going to post as well. Such a great film. I recently posted this quote from Ebert's review of Ikiru (the more commonly used name of the film) in the Kurosawa thread: "I think this is one of the few movies that might actually be able to inspire someone to lead their life a little differently."
On a different note, an adult film staring some very convincing ladyboys left me thinking about a lot of very serious things.
As far as movies that just kind of burn into your mind, I'd have to go with Jacob's Ladder. And not in a good way.
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Think only one other person mentioned The Matrix. Disappointing. That movie had me completely pondering the workings of the brain, and how even right now something could be providing electrical stimuli and chemicals to our brains to make us believe this is reality. It was a cool concept, and a well_executed adaptation of some of the cyberpunk literature from the 80s.
Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny investigates and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail, murder and rape. Will he survive and solve the case?
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Pi
The Life of Pi
Absolutely, positively, The Fountain (Love this movie)
Jacobs Ladder
The Reader
Schindlers list (This should be mentioned more often. Gave a real scope and ground level look of what was going on. Made me stop and think for a very long period of time about how inconsequential my daily struggles are in comaprison, I've got no right to complain about anything after seeing that.)
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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This is the year 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society's leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green - an artificial nourishment whose actual ingredients are not known by the public. Thorn is the tough homicide detective who stumbles onto the secret so terrifying no one would dare believe him.
