Which movie changed your perspective or maybe even your life?

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Changed the way I view love and regret.

Fight club. I made me want to resist consumerism.

Little MIss Sunshine

The Grapes of Wrath

Harold and Maude About Schmidt

Welcome to gattaca Believe in your dream

American Psycho made me realise how much i was neglecting my skincare

1986 Transformers Animated Film

Intelligent Lives directed by Dan Habib. It’s a documentary about people with intellectual disabilities who have historically been marginalized and sidelined due to society’s low expectations. The film shows what can happen when we treat everyone with dignity and provide opportunity. I saw it at a film festival and left the theater a better human.

Gladiator. That I needed to do more in my life to fight what is unfair.

I have two movie names The Shawshank Redemption & Interstellar A movie that really stayed with me is The Shawshank Redemption. It completely changed how I think about hope and patience the idea that even in the worst situations, people can keep moving forward. Another one is Interstellar, which made me think a lot about time, sacrifice, and how far someone would go for the people they love. Both films stuck with me long after watching them.

I try to be less of a people pleaser thanks to See No Evil.

Boogie Nights. Led me to the career I currently have and love.

Sinners, I can’t explain it, but when the dance scene was happening during the eras. It felt like my body was transcending or something. I’ve never experienced that ever.

Evan Almighty

Until the End of the World (1991)

Inland Empire

I watched this movie Red Joan a few weeks ago and still think about it - it made me realize that treason laws are actually kind of stupid and can end up punishing otherwise ethical behavior. I’ll never think of treason the same way.

500 Days of Summer. I can’t watch it again due to secondhand embarrassment and bad memories. I related a lot to “Tom” in my youth and this movie really opened a new perspective.

Everything everywhere all at once.

Jerry Maguire. Inspired me to shake up my career and my life, all for the better.

127 Hours/ The Rapture/Chorus Line/ Gypsy/ Frances/ Silkwood/ One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest/ Terms of Endearment/

The Razor's Edge Bill Murray's first dramatic movie. He made Ghostbusters if they let him make Razor's Edge. https://youtu.be/x3oBw2LbO-4?si=E9xgCq_YcuiyAMye

Rocky. I saw it in the theater as a kid. It showed me that if I wanted to achieve something I would have to work at it, but I could do it. This lesson has come up many times in my life and I thank Rocky for that.

That’s a great discussion prompt. Those kinds of movies tend to stick way longer than just “entertaining” ones.

Matrix

Koyaniskaatsi

The Breakfast Club. "When you grow up, your heart dies."

Perfect Days

Lost in Translation

Nine Days (2020)

After watching Schindler's List I realized that the use of color in movies makes it way more emotional and vowed to only ever watch color movies from then on. 

ROMA. It helped me realize that there are people directly outside my circle who are suffering when I'm celebrating... and who are celebrating when I'm suffering. It showed the universal nature of life, which is that we all feel the same ups and downs, but we rarely sympathize with those around us... if we even notice them. Fucked me up, honestly.