I have never looked at the news the same way after watching Nightcrawler.
It didn’t exactly change how I saw something, but Get Out really showed me in an unapologetic way how black people are talked down to by so many white people in this country and it’s made me try to be more aware of my own prejudices when it comes to being a white person. Kind of weird that a horror film did that.
My real answer is a book: Slaughterhouse 5. The movie Arrival pretty much does the same thing, though.
It really changed the way I think about my place in time and space, and the meaning of memories. Made me way less sad about death and entropy.
The book that contains the story Arrival is based on, Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang, is my favorite short story collection.
Vonnegut’s Welcome to the Monkey House is also a good short story collection.
If Ted Chiang could write more than one short story a year, I think he might be the greatest living fiction author. Basically everything he writes is a revelation.
Exhalation isn’t quite as good as Stories of Your Life and Others, but it’s still amazing.
Slaughterhouse 5 had the same effect on me, as well as reframing how I view morality.
Could you share a bit more on the morality bit? Piqued my interest.
It’s specifically because of something written in the forward. I don’t remember the exact quote now, but it got pointed out that he doesn’t put villains in his stories, to which he replies that he learned that in the war. It flipped a switch in teenage me’s brain and I started forming my own opinions after that.
Monty Python’s Life of Brian. When I was younger and starting to question things, it just kind of struck me how religions are mainly people interpreting things through their own filter and then fighting others who don’t filter reality in the same way. It made me decide to try to do away with filters altogether, as much as is possible. Hence, I am non-partisan, non-religious, and simply try to see things from as many angles and taking as many factors into account as I can.
Dark waters https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9071322/
DuPont company and teflon. I have thrown out most of my old frying pans and replaced it with ones without harmful substances that are causing cancer.
Frying pans should be labeled as PTFE, PFOA, and PFAS free.
I’m not the same person as I was before I watched(and later read) Annihilation, particularly in how I think about trauma
Six feet under changed my propective on death for the better too.
As did Dead Like Me.
Battlestar Galactica (the 2004 tv Series). Every time i rewatch it there are always more insights about society, politics, religion and family than anything else i have watched.
It has changed my understanding of human nature dramatically
About war: Grave of the fireflies. About drug: Requiem for a dream.
These two movies leave a scar.
American History X
This movie made me realize, hate is taught. Yes, some people are inherently just evil human beings, but racism for the most part is taught, vulnerable people taken advantage of at an early age, they’re sense of reality warped.
Don’t give me wrong I think after you reach adulthood you are responsible for your own way of thinking but it certainly opened my eyes that it’s REALLY fucking hard to detach from that belief/mindset when it’s been hammered down to you since childhood, even in the most subtle ways.
Edit: I think this movie should shown at school.
“Dead Man’s Letters”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man's_Letters
Since I watched it, it made me fear the future forever and after.
Sounds interesting! I’m gunna skip it, lol
Saving Private Ryan. I can’t see war or violence anymore without comparing to how realistic that was.
The doc “Ivory Tower” really got me interested in alternatives to traditional higher education, i.e. the kind that will get you the same income without $100000000000000000000000000000 in debt compounding at a rate of 100% daily. Fuck colleges man, honestly.
I was “in school” until I was almost 30 and got out without any debt. College undergraduate programs are basically theft that is used to pay for people like me and for massive administrative salaries. It’s absolutely a scam.
And yet, big schools, the kind that can afford to really not give a shit about individual students, are some of the only places where true independent research is being done. Cutting edge research generally only happens for profit, for the military, or at universities. Federal grants help pay for it, but another big source of cash is comes from absolutely fucking over 18 year old kids who think they don’t have a choice.
I don’t know what my point is exactly. Just wanted to give you some insider perspective.
Pose is a great series that really helped me get over the residual homophobia and transphobia from my upbringing. It’s a great show that helped me rethink my masculinity and how I love and support people around me. 10/10 recommend if you want to be rewarded for trying to keep an open mind
I’ve seen multiple movies that taught me to observe society as a collective to see how it influences members of a society and distance myself from that influence
And to look at how society works in the frame of thought of how something could fail and what do you change so it doesn’t fail and iterate from there
The Barbie movie showed me we are only against big corporations when they don’t align with current ideology. Mattel proved it otherwise, imo. But hey, if the pharmaceutical industry has been shafting us since the 70s, why wouldn’t the toy industry?
(this has nothing to do with being pro or against feminism)
Isn’t that sort of obvious, though? Like…ya. if Nestle aligned closer with current ideology that it’s not good to be an evil corporation… people would like them more instead of making jokes about their death water.
Yes, exactly but it’s all a PR thing. They’re still a greedy corporation that marketing wise is “doing” the thing current affairs deem right. That doesn’t automatically make them a good corporation, quite the opposite in my opinion.
