Post movies that actually have a serious premise and make you question your perspective on reality for a few hours.
Network, if you have not seen it, is worth the watch. While the philosophical side of things is surface level at best, the portrayal is a fine example of good film making. Christopher Nolan should take notes.
12 Angry Men is an absolute classic. Good choice, anon.
Daily reminder that this is absolutely not how the legal system nor beyond a reasonable doubt works.
Next we have Taxi Driver. The movie shines in its acting and characters, and it has awkward situations meant to make the viewer feel the same way. The characters are unique and believable. I don't need to say much on this one. Steven Spielberg should take notes.
Paul Schrader (the writer of Taxi Driver) wrote about Travis Bickle, and he made the point that he's in a self-inflicted loneliness, which is shown by him taking his date to a pornography theatre. He doesn't actually want to fix his life, he just wants to die
Him pointing the fingergun at his head just after he shoots a few guys reflects this
Just more food for thought
Certainly. I think many young men relate to him at some level because of that, especially anons. The thing that sets Bickle apart is he actually did do something. I sometimes wonder if he actually cared about that girl, or convinced himself he does since he didn't care about anything else.
Great movie. I'm glad I stumbled upon it out of pure accident. Going into a movie with no prior knowledge is a lot of fun.
These kinds of movies aren't for everyone.
Another good film, and I'm too lazy to post more pictures, is Interstellar. Nolan's last good movie. Inception was pretty bad, I think, and all the memes and praise I think caused him to move in a different direction outside Batman(Nolan's batman movies are really damn good, even with their faults). Oppenheimer was his worst, and a pretty damn awful movie.
I don't agree with your interpretation. If all he wanted was to die he wanted have even take her out on the first place. He's ready to die because it's part of his plan of being noticed. I think he wants companionship and to feel like a part of something in a society that alienates him but at the same time he's also partly responsible for his misery and continually sabotages his ability to find what he seeks and rather than look at ways at which he could find happiness despite that alienating society he would rather lash out at it.
Travis suffers from a massive victim complex. It makes him feel unique, like a dog chewing off it's own tail he will continue to sabotage himself because he wants to feel like all his suffering previously was all for a reason so he will cause himself new bouts of suffering to justify and contextualize all the misfortunes in his life as somehow being all a ploy of "fate" or what-have-you to keep him in perpetual misery when it's just him. He wants to feel apart of a community but rejects Iris when she asks him to go to a commune with her. Now, it's easy to state that he would never be able to hang out with a bunch of hippies and be lazy all day but he was still a very young man who could've used any socializing he could get but he turned her down and kept isolating himself.
It hurts to type this as this is the conundrum I've found myself my whole life.
how do people always forget the vietnam angle? rambo has the same idea taxi driver has, but barely anyone brings them up in the same discussion. past war vets were treated a lot better than vietnam and anything past that wars, thanks to country hating hippies.
>how do people always forget the vietnam angle?
To be fair it's not really referenced outside the opening minutes of the film.Travis likely has some trauma from his time in Vietnam but he's made to be pretty everyman.
I'm not that anon, but I am the OP.
>made to be pretty everyman
Pretty everyman that served. I did too, and I kind of get that. For some people, once you get a taste of war and military life, nothing really seems to compare. You could correlate his experience in Vietnam to wanting something of a rush, such as the last scene.
This movie effectively made Guy Ritchie a target because it's a deep study on the masculine ego/super-ego/ID and naming the israelite as the central figure of the film who's the personification of greed and evil is called Sam Gold. It's a 10/10 redpill.
Because the movie does not bring it up or focus on it in any way beyond an off-hand reference.
Can't have a thread like this without some Hitchwiener. Rebecca is a good film, but I'm not going to go into detail.
Network is definitely one of the finest films ever made, the 'mad as hell' ramble is fricking iconic, as well as Beatty's spiel about money. Shits perfect.
I need to resee this then. First time round I was bored
The Truman Show
Stalker
Dead Poets Society
Children of Men
Koyanisqatsi
The Seventh Seal
F for Fake
>Koyanisqatsi
Oh this looks cool. Added to my list.
>Dead Poets Society
Overall a decent film for sure. A little campy at times, and a little full of itself, but still fun.
Waking Life is a movie I think people should watch at least once. A lot of it is pseudo-intellectual drivel but it has some fun points. One of the better scenes is when there's a group of college students talking about "Where ever we go we bring gasoline" and how they are change in the world, how much they do. On the contrary an old man is holding on to the top of a telephone pole, and when asked about his situation he says he doesn't know why he's there, but will probably stay there. The main student says, "Guess he's all action and no theory, while we're all theory and no action."
F for Fake is such a great film nice catch anon
Network is completely outdated. It was about how television programming and globalism was completely sending late boomers haywire. Now we have fricking 24/7 screentime zoomers who have grown up plugged into a tablet and they have gone so completely fricking crazy that even network doesn't quite do it justice.
lol true dat...
Outdated, yet the message remains the same. Network doesn't do it justice, no. If I had millions of dollars I'd direct a modern version of Network, but to secure that millions of dollars(Like some israelite is going to loan me that amount of money with 0 experience) I'd have to get buttraped by globalist homosexuals and ruin my entire direction.
Network is more relevant today than it was when it was made.
We're mad as hell, but we're all still taking it.
>outdated
It's as relevant as ever. Literally everything he mentions is possibly even more applicable to people today than it was in 1976.
>We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’
>Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. (shouting) You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!’
>So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’
>I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!…You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first, get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’
This movie provides a once a year injection of love for your fellow man that can keep anyone sane.
I hate when the order of the names doesn't match the order of the actors in the poster. I get it, left to right from biggest star to lowest, so why not arrange the actors accordingly?
Actor images are arranged by billing too, highest billing closest to center.
People always complain about this but who honestly looks at anything other than the title?
Chayevsky you israeli supremacist, maybe tell your buddies like Springer and Stern to tone it down
YOU WILL ATONE
It was supposed to be a parody.
The documentaries of Adam Curtis resonated with me deeply because they articulated some of the views I already had about perception of the world and how we tell ourselves stories to simplify an infinitely complex world that we couldn't begin to understand otherwise.