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I did a post a while back on the main site (5 books that shift your reality) which still gets the occasional comment. How about movies?
Many would say that a book far exceeds a movie in the amount it can alter your perceptions, but in many ways that 2 hour cinema epic tends to hit every sense in your body in ways the book could only dream of.
What films have shifted your perspectives and why? -
if you enjoyed 'brave new world', have you tried his last novel, 'island'?...i think that 'it came from beneath the sea' was so sad.
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I have 'Island' sat on my bookcase at the moment, been meaning to read it fo a good while now.
My other favourite Huxley book (apart from 'Doors of Perception') has to be one of his least well known.
'Ape and Essence' is a great followup to 'Brave New World', and I guess a good precursor to Island. It was written with the hindsight of WWII yet still maintains the greater dystopia edge that Huxley largley avoided in 'Island'.
Good read... -
dont mean to sound rude, just curious...you know where the octopus image comes from?
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CommentAuthorfelipevenancio
- CommentTimeMar 20th 2006
Movie: Matrix part 1
Why: This movie has introduced me to different perspectives about reality.
Movie: Waking life
Why: Showed me that i could induce a Lucid Dream, what is great.
if I remember others i'll tell ya -
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An obvious choice (at least, for me) is Blade Runner.
Prior to seeing this film there was, within my thinking, a merging of the idea of technical progress with social evolution (for example, surely a stellar age humanity would be a post-racist humanity). Not really my idea...a leitmotif of Western thought.
Blade Runner demolished this notion by presenting a 3-dimensional world that possessed all the stereotypical objects of an imagined (and now, well on its way to being realized) futurity still bound by ancient human problems.
Technology offered no freedom, only new and more elaborate kinds of imprisonment. Although the film differs in many ways from the Phillip K. Dick short story source, this fundamental component of the tale is retained.
The divorcement of technical achievement from societal tranquility was a perspective changing idea for me. -
My octopus image is from old school 50s horror movie which I lost the original screenshot of. Breaking copyright rules...
Blade Runner is definitely one of my favourite cinematic worlds. Its relation to the original story is vagueat best, but it leeched just the right ideas it needed to make a popular film. Sad to see so many poor Phil K DIck movies since then and now, however, I do admit to having a soft spot for Total Recall - Arnold and Phil is a good combo.
Roll on Scanner Darkly! -
yup, the 50's movie was called 'it came from beneath the sea', i loved it then and now. 'blade runner' asks us 'what does it mean to be human?'...when roy shows us he loves life more than revenge, pulling decker back up onto the roof, he transcends his patricide and lets alittle love into the darkness...PKD, being a mad speed freak, was obsessed with the nature of identity...who am i? what am i? etc.
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I'm going to have to watch that now seen as I stole its mascot. Let the illegal downloading commence!
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Crash.
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Pi and Requim for a Dream are two GREAT movies that fucked up my mind. I will never ever do hard drugs because of RFAD.
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Yeah, Darren Aronofsky is overdue for a follow up. Watch out for 'The Fountain' coming this summer I think
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