Hey Pandas, What Movies Changed Your Perspective On Life? (Closed)

I was quite young when I saw the Butterfly effect, but it was pretty deep for me at the time, lol. It made me realize how consequential every little decision is.

After Life (amazing Japanese movie from 1998) - the premise is that after you die, you have to choose one memory to live in forever. For about a week, the recently dead get to sift through memories until they find the most meaningful one. It's the most provocative movie I've ever seen about what is truly significant. Which of yours would you select?

Pay it forward was pretty good, too. It made me realize how much better the world would be if we all did a little extra.

The Trueman Show.

You know that this is not your life.
But then again. Do you really *know*?

Fight club

You are not a special or unique snowflake

"The pursuit of happiness",
It shows me how life can be difficult.
This movie always give me strength in my difficult time.

Mitchell's Vs the machines. improved my relationship with my little sister.

Fight Club
I completely related to Edward Norton's character. Insomnia - everything is a copy, of a copy, of a copy. You can't tell if you are awake and living life or asleep and dreaming.

I didn't realize what I was doing to myself and made some changes to live a healthier life.

Now Voyager, for 3 phrases. When Betty Davis's character was challenged by her rich mother as to how she would manage without the mother giving her so much money, their conversation ended with Betty's character saying " I'm not afraid anymore mother. I'm not afraid" it was an amazing revelation for the character & me. To not be afraid of life. Also, I have a line from the movie tattooed on my forearm. Its a line from a Walt Whitman poem called The Untold Want. "Untold want by life and land n'er granted, now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find". I have "Now Voyager...." on my forearm. It is surrounded by stars that come from the last line of the movie. "Oh, Jerry, let's not ask for the moon when we have the stars." This has been long but those 3 phrases just shout at me to live these lines from the movie.

The Matrix-duh I think that was the point of the movie.
And the weirdest one,
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Toy story

For me, it was a series, The Fall, with Gillian Anderson as an investigator. She deals with a nasty character who plays a cat-and-mouse game with her, but she keeps her cool when taunted. That prompted me to think about not taking online insults personally. For example, someone called me a "dummy", so I asked, "You seem angry at me. Why?" No answer from them and I shrugged it off.

Papillon (1973) Steve McQueen - Excellent performances in some of the toughest scenes.

Close Encounters - The idea of aliens brought to life.

American Graffiti - What it's like to come of age and deal with the tragedies of becoming an adult.

Full Metal Jacket - This hit close to home because both of my brothers served in the Army. My second oldest brother was in basic training when a guy in his unit collapsed and died from heart failure because the drill sergeant wouldn't allow anyone else to break formation to help him.

Harry Potter. I always wish that someday a half-giant will barge through my door and tell me I’m a wizard.

the sixth sense. I realized I have no idea if I'm dead or not

Movies:

Melancholia
The Broken Circle
Into the Wild

Series:
Six feet under

The Truman Show
The Matrix
The Butterfly Effect

Harold and Maude. A bizarre choice, but I saw this movie when I was 15 in a period of my life when I felt hopeless because of our family's circumstances. The beautiful, funny story of a morbid, rich teenager and an eternally hopeful Holocaust survivor completely turned my mindset and worldview around.

Forest Gump

A great movie about the power of mindfulness.

Soylent Green

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe made me realise that even though we might not know it ourselves sometimes, we are not the centre of the universe. Funny to share this here: It taught me that my opinion/interest are not always the most important.