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Movies can inspire. They can make you think out of box. Sometimes they can make you question yourself and look back at your life or perhaps even see your future. There is a true and honest kid inside each of us. When we grow older, often we get so serious that we forget the wonder of life. These inspiring movies have made me a better person, often helping me believe in myself and look for the ...
- Oppenheimer. As expected, Christopher Nolan's latest production also managed to keep audiences on the edge of their seats with a story that sparked many discussions.
- The Truman Show. The Truman Show is, for many, the best film in Jim Carrey's career. In it, he stars as Truman Burbank, a man who believes he is leading an ordinary life but, unbeknownst to him, is the main character of a TV show with millions of viewers worldwide who have been following his every move.
- Memento. Guy Pearce stars in Memento as Leonard, a former insurance investigator who devotes his life to hunting down the man who murdered his wife. But, as if his quest wasn't complicated enough, Leonard has to deal with a medical condition that affects his memory and prevents him from making new memories, making it impossible for him to move forward in his investigation and repeatedly triggering in his mind the image of his wife on the day she died.
- Her. What defines love? This is one of the major questions that Her, the 2013 film written, directed, and co-produced by Spike Jonze, presents to the audience.
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- Requiem for a Dream (2000)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Predestination (2014)
- Being John Malkovich (1999)
Mar 10, 2023 · 1. Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash. Movies have been a popular form of entertainment for decades, and for good reason. They allow us to escape reality and immerse ourselves in a world of ...
- Ex Machina
- The Fountain
- Shutter Island
- Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
- Stranger Than Fiction
- Black Swan
- Barton Fink
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Master
- 12 Monkeys
This fascinating little thriller from last year picked up some very positive buzz during its theatrical run, and went on to land a surprising win for Best Visual Effects in the 2015 Academy Awards. Ex Machinatells the story of a Caleb, a young computer programmer (Domhnall Gleeson) who wins a contest to visit the CEO (Oscar Isaac) of his company in...
Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountainstruggled to make it to theaters, then was met with a shrug when it finally arrived. Originally intended as a starring vehicle for Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, the film languished when the stars pulled out. Aronofsky replaced them with Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz, and slashed the $70 million budget down to a sparse...
Shutter Island is considered a lesser Scorsese film, which, granted, is still head and shoulders above most other filmmakerss output. But Shutter Islanddeserves better than its lukewarm reception implies. The film is a wonderful genre exercise from a brilliant storyteller, and its twists and turns are endlessly entertaining, even after repeat viewi...
What if you had the ability to erase all past memories of a former lover? Would you do it? This is the question that Michel Gondry, using a script written by Charlie Kaufman seeks to answer. In the process, the film explores the idea of memory, love, and how we color past memories based on present experiences. These are fascinating and complex idea...
Stranger than Fictionhas an immediately interesting and engaging premise: what if, one day, you started hearing a narrator recounting every event of your life, real time? Even worse, what if that narrator started predicting your quickly approaching death? Will Ferrell stars as the man who begins to hear his own life’s narration, and sets out to bre...
Darren Aronofsky makes his second appearance on this list with Black Swan. This Oscar nominee stars Natalie Portman as a dedicated ballet dancer named Nina living in New York City, who begins to feel her reality crumbling around her as a rival dancer (Mila Kunis) joins her troupe. Black Swan follows the conventions of many psychological thrillers, ...
Barton Finkmay contain one of the best final shots in cinematic history. For those who haven’t seen the Coen Brothers’ brilliant fourth film, we won’t spoil it here, but we will say that the shot remains in your mind for days afterwards. Barton Finkfollows the titular playwright (John Turturro) as he is sent to Hollywood to write his first screenpl...
One of the most famous thought-provoking movies ever made, 2001: A Space Odysseystill holds the power to captivate and perplex viewers nearly fifty years after it’s initial release. The movie acts as a blank slate for Stanley Kubrick to project his insecurities, his musings, and his philosophies onto. Entire books have been written on the film. Tha...
The Master, like most later Paul Thomas Anderson features, is a movie that almost dares you to like it. With The Master, the famously cerebral filmmaker offers a movie with almost no satisfying narrative tricks. Anderson almost defiantly refuses to conform to dramatic conventions. The result is a beautiful, messy, frustrating masterpiece. Joaquin P...
Movies dealing with time travel are always going to be thought provoking. The mechanics of time travel, and the physical ramifications of it, are so fascinating to humans that scientists have entire schools of thought on the theoretical ramifications of it. One of the most brilliant explorations of the results of time travel is Terry Gilliam’s deli...
Aug 14, 2024 · Most people are familiar with popular thought-provoking movies like The Matrix, Inception, Donnie Darko, Moon, V for Vendetta, Mulholland Dr., Memento, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Fight Club. There are also plenty of other movies out there that are just as thought-provoking but not as well known.
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Nov 20, 2023 · Out-of-the-box thinker Steve Jobs provides an even more powerful example of “not true” thinking when he strove to grow Apple’s computer business over 20 years ago by imagining new sales ...