I was just thinkin this might be a good post section… i kno a few but ill post one at a time
12 Monkeys
maybe a little review could be included?
Waking Life
Pi
Hey… what happened about the “little reviews?”
Pi - manic film shot in black and white (early 1990s) about a man who believes he has uncovered a 200 digit sequence of numbers which will explain the patters and structures of nature. The soundtrack almost entirely consists of early British Drum n Bass, which is utterly appropriate.
Kill Bill.
Its an exploration of the ethical issues surrounding child rearing. A tale about a young woman bereft of her child, and how she overcomes adversity to win her back. Its about the nurturing bond that exists between mother and daughter and the strength that can be drawn from it. It proves that blood is thicker than water, and lots of other peoples blood too. I think it contains a lesson for us all.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Its an exploration of the ethical issues surrounding slaughter. A tale about a psychopath bereft of the means to quench his desire to kill, and how he overcomes any sense of morals to go on the rampage. Its about the nurturing bond that exists between psycho and chainsaw and the strength that can be drawn from it. It proves that blood is thicker than water, not to mention more dramatic and scary, and lots of other peoples blood too. I think it contains a lesson for us all.
Did you really like that movie ?
I found it was utterly boring. A mix of kabbala, loud Drum n Bass, epileptic seisures (or what ever he was suffering from), plus a rather cheap rendition of the faustian theme, all of them precipitated into a jumble of confuse frames, which lead me to think that the story was mostly an oniric hallucination rather than real happenings. Or maybe that’s exactly what’s interesting about it…
my dinner with andre. (Very bizarre movie, that if you have the ability to sit through will really introduce some strange ideas into your psyche.)
The wizard of oz. (The allusions to Oz, are brilliant, even though Alice in wonderland did it first.)
Back to the future (pop culture philosophy of time travel.)
Donnie Darko. (a trip down memory lane.)
Blade Runner. (Morals Ethics, life, death.)
Alien/Aliens. (Ethics… is it right to use a species you can’t control as a weapon?)
Total Recall. (Got to turn on the power generator!)
Sixth Day. (typical cheesy arnold fair, but it does raise some important ethics questions.)
is Pi the movie where the guy slices off his nipples with a razor blade while looking in the mirror…or is that the Pink Floyd movie?
What you’re talking about is Pink Floyd’s The Wall, featuring Bob Geldoff as Pink. Indeed, at some point, he does shave his hair, his chest and his eyebrows, to an awesome effect. Really corrosive movie, that. I was planning on making a brief commentary on Zelig, by Woody Allen, but I may have changed my mind.
The Wall is an incredibly expressive movie, illustrating most of the social drama of the last century, from war that tears whole families apart to petty school teachers harrasing kids. A truly wonderful tribute brought to art with a message: the music is epic, it even goes better with the images, and the motion picture itself is an astounding realisation. Alternating scenes of tenderness, war, violence and satyre, not to mention the extra dimension ensued by the animations create a fantasting atmosphere.
The main character, Pink , is partly inspired by Syd Barrett.
It’s a movie that moves you and it is also a cultural event.
Oh… Pi also has a scene where the main character shaves his head… but it’s not close as shocking as the one from The Wall.
Cheerio. Hope to find the time for Zelig, too.
The Wall is f-ed up.
Anyway, on a Cambellian level, all movies are philosophical, the current versions of ancient human struggles.
(But if anyone says The Matrix, I will kill them.)
The Matrix(es)
Seriously
If he’s having the Matrix then I’m having Earnest goes to Camp…
Brave New World (yes, there is a movie version)
-Woah
From a similar thread:
Dead Poets Society is one I might have disputed on the other thread. I suppose that the only really objectionable element is the presence of Robin Williams because apart from that it is a movie of big ideas and beautiful moments…
lol … “I find the presence of Robin Williams objectionable.”
I should also add for anyone unaware of the other thread I quote above that that list might not fit present criteria: i.e. not all entries ‘have to do with philosophy’ explicitly as this thread’s title suggests; its theme was the simple adjective ‘heady’.
The truman show…
“people accept the reality that is before them”
[size=134]Ravenous[/size] is about choices: “Eat – and live forever – or Die.” (not to be confused with the cannibalistic-Christian tradition of eating the body and drinking the blood…although there is a resident minister in the movie, he is depicted as an illiterate mental-midget). Hell is Other People…in this particular movie.
I wonder if there are any movies that are not philosophical.