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

The Lion King: Family means sh*t to some people who are obsessed with power and control.

I know this is strange, and although I'm not a complete conspiracy theorist but there is one that I subscribe to. I will present to you the same question once posed to me. "How do you warn the masses about something or inform them about something without causing mass panic?" - Movies (shows). We as the majority see them as entertainment, I see them as possible warnings. Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day, I Am Legend, World War Z, etc etc. To me they could be possible warnings or informational. I'm not saying EVERY movie. But pay attention and see if you don't recognize stuff that's happened in older movies. Or what could happen.

"Defending Your Life" with Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep had me thinking about what scenes in my life they would play. What fears have I not faced? What brave acts deserve self-recognition? It inspired me to do a kind of inventory, be kinder to myself, and think about what I really want in life.

Luca! watched it recently, and I can't stop thinking about it. Alberto is my idol, I love his outlook on life. Silencio Bruno!

'Cool Hand Luke' ... "Luke: I can eat 50 eggs. Dragline: Why you got to go and say fifty eggs for? Why not thirty-five or thirty-nine?
Luke: I thought it was a nice round number.”

This line among others shows Luke's mentality of just living the hell out of life, making a normal special.

Startrek I want the music on my funeral: To go beyond where no man has gone before.

The Horse whisperer - until then I believed I was a pacifist. But when the Indians beat up the white men, boy did I get a kick out of that. It also changed my perspective. In movies, in life, I was always emphatic with the underdog, which is a hard way to live. Now when it gets too much, I change perspective.

I had a sudden “Whoa” moment when I first watched Disney’s Christopher Robin. I was writing my thesis at the time whilst taking extra corses and working a side job so stress and work was all I ever did. The movie felt like it was about my situation and it really changed my life at the time. To much focus on work and not taking time for your family and friends is very damaging and you lose track of yourself in the process. It’s important to take time of sometimes and do absolutely nothing! “ Because sometimes, doing nothing leads to the very best of somethings” :)

Jonathon Livingston Seagull. Beautiful film with an equally beautiful soundtrack by the wonderful Neil Diamond.

Film: The killing fields and Schindler’s List.
Series: The man in the high castle. I just couldn’t get enough of it. And without being stroppy and way too sentimental: a bad guy can also be a good guy.

"Underground" by Emir Kusturica. Probably not one of the most popular of the bunch, but I remember very vividly when I watched it first when I was about seven nine years old (my older brother brought it home). I didn't understand quite well what was going on with war in Yugoslavia (man, I didn't even know where Yugoslavia was), there were many references and info I could not comprehend, but was the music. The music was magical and in was perfectly entangled with the visuals. The soundtrack was just as magical as the images produced by Kusturica. It captured me, moved me to tears of sadness and joy at different times and completely blew out my mind and allow me to visualise a bigger world.

When I was about 5 or 6, I loved this movie called Ringing Bell (japanimation you can watch on youtube), well it's only 45 min. long but whatever. I think it really messed me up for good.

Into the Wild by Sean Penn (2007)

The Trueman Show.

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