What's your fave movie of all time that you love to recommend to people?
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For me it's Interstellar, it never fails to make me ugly cry at least twice during each viewing
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For me it's Interstellar, it never fails to make me ugly cry at least twice during each viewing
A friend of mine mentioned 'Contact' was the perfect film. I thought about it for some time and found that I agree. The plot, casting, filmography, and score are all top notch.
Beyond favorite there are quite a few films I consider 'done' we don't need sequels or remakes. Most recently the original 'Willy Wonka' came to mind.
I love the line “They should have sent a poet”
Great movie. If you haven't, you should check out Arrival (2016).
I like it, but it's also a movie where world leaders act in the most unrealistically stupid way possible. It's where emotions take more precedence than any actual pretense of diplomacy. Humans being gaslit into allies by future-seeing aliens is also a bit too deterministic to be seen as any kind of moral victory either. I dunno, not a movie for me
There's a video by a designer talking about some of the symbolism of Ellie's journey (Full talk video here -- SPOILERS for the film in both).
And also an insightful YouTube comment(!) someone made in response describing their interpretation:
::: spoiler spoiler "This is one of the most thoughtful and insightful reviews on deeper film meanings I think I've ever seen. In keeping with the rebirth symbolism, I would offer the following possibilities.
There’s undeniably imagery of execution and rebirth simultaneously occurring within the same frames! The filmmakers did an outstanding of capturing some very compelling storytelling while inserting remarkable symbolism." :::
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symbolism of Ellie's journey
Full talk video here
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