Movies that change the way you see life

Originally Posted by LeHah

For those more dense - "Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin." - Luc Besson

You're such a pessimist sometimes.

For some people who don't use their heads much, I guess some films WOULD open their eyes. =/

Anyways, I saw Requiem when I graduated high school. It wasn't FRIGHTENING, but you know for some people, that's the road they've chosen for themselves. It didn't encourage me to do drugs at all, but it didn't really deter me either. Moderation. =D

Contact, I guess, really touched me. Lame. Carl Sagan in female form, right. But I don't care what you people who think you're too cool to have a philosophical shift from a movie think. I love Jodie Foster. I love the idea presented. It didn't enlighten me, it didn't "wake me up," but I loved how it was done. It gave me a sense of awe and wonder about the universe which I don't come up against very often in daily life. I appreciate being brought to a point of said awe and wonder in a film. I loved the passion in the protagonist, I loved the play on faith and science, and I loved the undertones.

Another one would have to be... and I am sure I'll get ripped on for this... would have to be 2001: Space Odyssey. By the time you wake up from the boring and bleak movie, you realize what was trying to be established. I find it extremely beautiful and very well executed as a film (not to say it is without flaws). Much like Contact, it brings a lot of ideas together, and executes the display of these ideas in a way I enjoyed.

Before those of you with a whole slew of films under your belt come along and piss on Kubrick and Sagan, I just want to say that I am not a film connoisseur. I love film, and I find it a great medium for a person like me to enjoy. (I am a very visual person)

Preemptively, I understand that some people feel that film is for the person without an imagination or without a mind of their own to put together ideas. I want to make it clear that movies for me are an entertainment form.

Jam it back in, in the dark.