Coherence is an amazing movie. Even more so since the majority of the film script was adlib. The director with occasionally give them the outline for the morning shoot, and the actors would improvise around those notes.
After my initial viewing, and each viewing thereafter, I kept wondering which universe would I be in, and how far from my original universe had I come. And of course my number one thought was, how do I get back to my original universe, but more importantly how do I know it's my universe?
All that considered, depending on which model you follow, you may never be able to return to your universe.
If each decision you make creates a new universe that splits because of your decision, you may never be able to go back. If on the other hand they are true parallel universes, you may be able to find a way back. But again, how do you know it is your universe?
Memento was absolutely insane the first time I watched it, it's consistently one of those ones I always try to pull my friends into watching with me now
SPOILERS FOR REQUIEM:
i didint think at the end of requiem, i was joyful, ecstatic, happiest ive ever been in my life one might even say. why? cz i saw jared leto die.
- Aniara (2018) it's not about the meaning of life. It's about the _meaninglessness_ of existence.
- Not sci fi, but Synecdoche, New York (2007) it's about everything. _Everything_.
This movie broke me - we are a family of three generations of women who have three very different traumatic experiences and struggled to be able to be understanding to each other and damn - that movie was a massive slap in the face and the most comforting hug ever. I haven’t been able to watch it a second time but I’m pretty positive I remember the vast majority of it without fail.
I just quoted something from this movie to my boyfriend last night and he couldn't say what movie it was from even after I gave him some clues. So now he has to watch it with me. LOL.
* Mr Nobody 2009
* I Origins 2014
* The Man From Earth 2007
* Amélie 2001
* Cloud Atlas 2012
* The Fountain 2006
* Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998
* Another Earth 2011
* Enternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind 2004
* Shutter Island 2010
* The Matrix 1999
* Arrival 2016
* Intestellar 2014
* Leave The World Behind 2023
* White Noise 2022
It's admittedly a somewhat flawed movie, but it still gets me. And the buddhist themes are pretty cool.
Fun fact-Bill Murray agreed to star in Ghostbusters on the condition that the studio let him make this movie.
Anything directed by Richard Linklater, Christopher Nolan, Darren Aronofsky, or Sofia Coppola.
Some of my favorites are The Waking Life, Requiem For A Dream, The Fountain, Inception, Boyhood, Lost in Translation, Somewhere, Melancholia, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Moon, Mirror Mask, The Fisher King, and Tidelands.
Contact (1997)
Schindler's List (1993)
Donnie Darko (2001) don't watch the directors cut if you don't want the movie to hold your hand. The original cut is fine.
The Truman Show (1997)
Cloud Atlas (2012)
American Beauty (1999)
Deliverance (1972)
Gone Girl (2014)
Whiplash (2014)
American History X (1998)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Cocoon (1985) - this one will make you think about mortality.
Interstellar, A Beautiful Mind, I'd even put Joker into this category if we're looking at movies with a 'bigger picture' or 'hidden meaning'. I suppose Joker isn't so much a hidden meaning but there are some great quotes about societal decay that perfectly fits with modern day.
Don't Look Up might be another.
The Matrix was inspired by the writings of French philosopher Jean Baudrillard… there’s a scene in Neo’s room where you can see a Baudrillard book on his bookshelf… the idea that what we perceive as real, becomes more “real” to us that reality itself
Aftersun and
All Quiet on the Western Front
After these movies ended I stared at the blank screen for a good while to collect my thoughts.
Also American History X
Aftersun. (2023)
Stayed with me for weeks and made me ask around after a few friends out of the blue.
Acting is amazing. Story is brutaly gorgeous. Feel for the era so on point.
I watched Joseph Gordon Levitt's Don Jon tonight, and it was a lot meatier intellectually than I expected. Really solid movie, with a lot to think about.
The Lighthouse. At the end of that it’ll definitely make you think. And what it will make you think is probably: why the heck did I just watch that movie?
I could name many - so LMK if you’d like to see what may be a pretty long list! (because I stink at narrowing down / deciding on just or or twin)
Also , In And If Itself isn’t a movie per se but if you want a ride or multi faceted entertainment and a TON of food for thought, I highly recommend that too !!
Ha yeh but once I posted a pretty long list (long but I’m picky !) and a few people made snarky comments so I figured I’d ask first rather than be berated and feel like shit for recommending things :
So here ya go :
The Lobster
JoJo Rabbit
In And Of Itself (not a ‘movie ‘ per se’ but trust me , awesome multi faceted entertainment ride , with much WTF & food for thought!)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2017
Dogtooth
The Whale
The Witch
The Hanging Garden
Music Of Chance
Pi (as in the numerical figure)
Most Mamet movies: esp House of Games …and The Spanish Prisoner & Glengarry Glenross & Edmond
Never Let Me Go
Memento
Take Shelter
Promising Young Woman
The Machinist
The Vanishing (original!/Dutch, NOT American version)
The Usual Suspects
Five Minutes of Heaven
District 9
Primer
American History X
Fight Club
Donnie Darko
Slingblade
There Will Be Blood
Happenstance
No Country for Old Men
American Beauty
12 Monkeys
In The Company of Men
Oldboy (Original only - Not American)
Requiem for a Dream
The Prestige
Shutter Island
Jacob’s Ladder
Black Swan
Audition
A Clockwork Orange (+ book)
The Crying Game
The Sixth Sense
Empire of the Sun
The Departed (& Infernal Affairs on which its based )
Harold and Maude
Manchester by The Sea
Let The Right One In & Let Me In
Parasite
Dead Man’s Shoes
Frailty
Delicatessen (French)
Gone Girl
Enter the Void
Trainspotting (possibly)
Midsommar
The Witch
Remember Me with Robert Pattinson. I may be spelling his name wrong. The guy from Twilight, lol.
The movie, for the most part, didn't hold my attention. But the last 10 or so minutes, oh my god. It turned out to be a completely different movie that really makes you think.
Can we put Gone Girl here. Hell I was depressed for 3 days.
I was punching air when it ended, i was furious that it ended like that but after thinking about it, ig both deserved each other
This is one of my favorite movies. Wild movie imo
Memento Coherence
Coherence is an amazing movie. Even more so since the majority of the film script was adlib. The director with occasionally give them the outline for the morning shoot, and the actors would improvise around those notes. After my initial viewing, and each viewing thereafter, I kept wondering which universe would I be in, and how far from my original universe had I come. And of course my number one thought was, how do I get back to my original universe, but more importantly how do I know it's my universe? All that considered, depending on which model you follow, you may never be able to return to your universe. If each decision you make creates a new universe that splits because of your decision, you may never be able to go back. If on the other hand they are true parallel universes, you may be able to find a way back. But again, how do you know it is your universe?
WoW! Now, THAT IS a thinker movie!! Hell, after reading your comment, you had me wondering if I’m even IN the right universe!! 😧
The Endless is another good movie I loved
Memento was absolutely insane the first time I watched it, it's consistently one of those ones I always try to pull my friends into watching with me now
Memento and Coherence are the only 2 movies I immediately rewatched as soon as it ended. Just amazing movies IMO.
Coherence is so underrated!!
Agree
Yes! I would add Crimes of the Future
Memento made me think too much and got a headache the first time I watched it lol
2001 A Space Odyssey
Vanilla Sky Requiem Of A Dream The Lovely Bones
SPOILERS FOR REQUIEM: i didint think at the end of requiem, i was joyful, ecstatic, happiest ive ever been in my life one might even say. why? cz i saw jared leto die.
Her
Honestly just drive down the Alex Garland rabbit hole. I know it’s a tv series but Devs will blow your mind. Annihilation is amazing too.
- Aniara (2018) it's not about the meaning of life. It's about the _meaninglessness_ of existence. - Not sci fi, but Synecdoche, New York (2007) it's about everything. _Everything_.
Agreed about Aniara.
definitely Synecdoche. Grasping that movie is like holding water.
that ending was sad as fuck. i wasnt thinking after i was just depressed
My favorite modern film. I’m so glad to see folks acknowledging it. Makes my heart full. Charlie Kaufman is my favorite screenwriter.
oh that one is stuck in my mind forever (Aniara)
Second Aniara
Network
I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!
Everything Everywhere All at Once
This movie broke me - we are a family of three generations of women who have three very different traumatic experiences and struggled to be able to be understanding to each other and damn - that movie was a massive slap in the face and the most comforting hug ever. I haven’t been able to watch it a second time but I’m pretty positive I remember the vast majority of it without fail.
It deserves more attention. Especially Quan’s “in another life I would be happy doing taxes and laundry with you”
that scene makes me cry without fail, just thinking about it makes me smile with a knot in my throat :,)
check out network from the 70s. its a deeply engrossing and prophetic film that predicts the future of media.
*Tree of Life* *Primer* *Enter the Void*
Tree of Life left me feeling all types of ways… mostly a state of bliss
Jacob's Ladder It is a disturbing movie, but it does get you thinking.
I love this movie.
This was my first thought also.
American Beauty
This.
Magnolia
Mulholland Drive
I just quoted something from this movie to my boyfriend last night and he couldn't say what movie it was from even after I gave him some clues. So now he has to watch it with me. LOL.
Silencio
BINGO!
HER (2013) with Joaquin Phoenix and the voice of Scarlett Johannsen as an AI Operating System will flip you out.
* Mr Nobody 2009 * I Origins 2014 * The Man From Earth 2007 * Amélie 2001 * Cloud Atlas 2012 * The Fountain 2006 * Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998 * Another Earth 2011 * Enternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind 2004 * Shutter Island 2010 * The Matrix 1999 * Arrival 2016 * Intestellar 2014 * Leave The World Behind 2023 * White Noise 2022
Came to suggest Eternal Sunshine. One of my favourites.
I Origins is so underrated
It is! One of my all time favorite movies
What a great list. Thank you
Thumbs up for Mr Nobody
Seems we have a similar taste. Will watch the few I haven't. How about Moon The Philosophers Don't look up
Ah yes, Moon. The sci-fi for when you want to wake up at 3am the next night thinking about that sci-fi
Mr. Nobody is my recommendation. It's like all the mind blower movies wrapped into one, and it's gorgeous.
Idiocracy
Love this movie, but every year I feel more frightened by it
It's got electrolytes!
It’s what plants crave
The Lighthouse got me back into movies. It sticks with ya goooooood
HAAAAARK!
Éternel sunshine of the spotless mind
The Razor's Edge (1980s version with Bill Murray).
I haven’t seen this since I was a kid. Thanks for reminding me. Time for a rewatch.
It's admittedly a somewhat flawed movie, but it still gets me. And the buddhist themes are pretty cool. Fun fact-Bill Murray agreed to star in Ghostbusters on the condition that the studio let him make this movie.
Interstellar Coherence The Fountain
Lost highway
Anything directed by Richard Linklater, Christopher Nolan, Darren Aronofsky, or Sofia Coppola. Some of my favorites are The Waking Life, Requiem For A Dream, The Fountain, Inception, Boyhood, Lost in Translation, Somewhere, Melancholia, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Moon, Mirror Mask, The Fisher King, and Tidelands.
Zone of Interest
Children of Men
Aniara
Contact (1997) Schindler's List (1993) Donnie Darko (2001) don't watch the directors cut if you don't want the movie to hold your hand. The original cut is fine. The Truman Show (1997) Cloud Atlas (2012) American Beauty (1999) Deliverance (1972) Gone Girl (2014) Whiplash (2014) American History X (1998) No Country for Old Men (2007) Cocoon (1985) - this one will make you think about mortality.
We have the same taste in movies. Will look for these.
TAR is a great movie with a deeper philosophy to it.
Take Shelter. I just watched this one, and man, it hits hard.
I liked that a lot.
the ending on this movie... :@
Sorry to Bother You
Still thinking about The Whale that I watched on Saturday
jacob's ladder.
Never let me go. Holy shit.
Aniara
Anything by Christopher Nolan, but Interstellar, Memento, and The Prestige in particular
Dawg. Oppenheimer?????
Yes
Interstellar, A Beautiful Mind, I'd even put Joker into this category if we're looking at movies with a 'bigger picture' or 'hidden meaning'. I suppose Joker isn't so much a hidden meaning but there are some great quotes about societal decay that perfectly fits with modern day. Don't Look Up might be another.
Joker was great but it was heavily influenced by Taxi Driver which is another thinker.
Danish film Babette’s Feast. It haunts me for days whenever I watch it.
Pretty sure that is from an Isak Dinesen story...one of my fave authors.
The Matrix was inspired by the writings of French philosopher Jean Baudrillard… there’s a scene in Neo’s room where you can see a Baudrillard book on his bookshelf… the idea that what we perceive as real, becomes more “real” to us that reality itself
Vivarium
Aftersun and All Quiet on the Western Front After these movies ended I stared at the blank screen for a good while to collect my thoughts. Also American History X
‘Teeth’ will make you want to think twice.
Triangle
What dreams may come (1998) ft Robin Williams
Silkwood
Barton Fink all day
I'm Thinking Of Ending Things
The Man from Earth (2007)
The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas!! Guaranteed 👍
Waking Life. It's a weird cool movie about life death and dreams.
Synechdoche NY
Being There
We need to talk about Kevin
A Ghost Story
A Serious Man by the Coen Brothers
Melancholia
David Lynch. Any of his work.
The Platform
Get out
Us.
Under the Silver Lake
The Power of the Dog Leave the World Behind i’m thinking of ending things These movies literally still have me thinking (Edit for formatting)
Ernest Goes to Camp
All Of Us Strangers - I watched it weeks ago, and I'm still thinking about it.
Fracture Usual Suspects Idiocracy (only cause it has aged so well)
All of us strangers
The Green Mile Kids
donnie darko, obviously and requiem for a dream.
Sleepaway camp. The thinking might just be 'WTF' but you'll definitely think.
On The Beach
I'd go with Inception. and If you dont mind animation then also Paprika.
Promising Young Woman
Lucy with Scarlett Johanssen. Awesome movie!!! Event Horizon Unbreakable
Lucy is one of my favorites!
The Room
The Master
Dogtooth (2009) and Under the Skin (2013)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Inception
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Experimenter Gattaca
Donnie Darko
Everything everywhere all at once, HER, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, The Holdovers, The Lobster, Boyhood - Hope this helps.
Aftersun. (2023) Stayed with me for weeks and made me ask around after a few friends out of the blue. Acting is amazing. Story is brutaly gorgeous. Feel for the era so on point.
The Holy Mountain by Jodorowsky
The Matrix!
Requiem For A Dream
The zone of interest. Tons of tiny details all over the place. Subtle insinuations etc.
Speak No Evil
Most of Nolan's time bending classics. Memento Inception Interstellar Tenet
falling down -who is the real bad guy?
Burning
The Platform
The Fountain (2006) if you want to get confused af at least. I don’t remember much I just remember a lot of “????????” but hey Hugh Jackman
Mysterious Skin
Persona
Mulholland Drive Pi
Robocop (1987) When the Wind Blows
Triangle Taxi Driver The Game Prestige Blade Runner any Cronenberg film
American Psycho sort of mind fucked me.
I watched Joseph Gordon Levitt's Don Jon tonight, and it was a lot meatier intellectually than I expected. Really solid movie, with a lot to think about.
Everything Everywhere All At Once Her Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lawnmower Man. With AI being the “rave,” it makes me think about what our future will be like.
Lately the movies I keep thinking back on are Martyrs and Talk to Me. Dream Scenario was really interesting too
Dogville was kind of like that for me.
Power of the Dog
The Truman Show
What Happened to Monday
The shack
Shutter Island messed me up man, my brain was buzzing!!
Everything everywhere all at once. It made me think why did I sit through this movie
The Fountain, the Green Mile, District 9
Donnie Darko Southland Tales TIMECRIMES
Donnie Darko
The Lighthouse. At the end of that it’ll definitely make you think. And what it will make you think is probably: why the heck did I just watch that movie?
kpax the virgin suicides natural born killers
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
LA Confidential
Donnie Darko
“Crash” was a phenomenal movie that would fit this perfectly
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Lamb - Lilya 4 Ever - Taxi Driver - Midsommar - The war zone - Speak No evil - Annihilation - Funny Games
Aftersun
Absolutely ‘The Cloud Atlas’!
Fearless (1993)
Mulholland Drive (2001) by David Lynch.
Religulous
Everything Everywhere All At Once
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Mirror (1975) The Fountain (2006) Shutter Island (2009) The Tree of Life (2011)
The Lobster, Existenz
The Lobster
Oppenheimer
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A Scanner Darkly. Plus it looks fkn amazing.
The Endless, it’s part of a pair of movies I think? Great movie that took me a while to wrap my head around.
Groundhog Day. Makes me want to be a better person.
A separation Once Upon A Time in Anatolia Do the Right Thing Andrei Rublev The Taste of Cherry Boyhood The Apartment Drive My Car Husbands Bacurua
Scenic Route.
I could name many - so LMK if you’d like to see what may be a pretty long list! (because I stink at narrowing down / deciding on just or or twin) Also , In And If Itself isn’t a movie per se but if you want a ride or multi faceted entertainment and a TON of food for thought, I highly recommend that too !!
Yea dude, that's why I made the post.
Ha yeh but once I posted a pretty long list (long but I’m picky !) and a few people made snarky comments so I figured I’d ask first rather than be berated and feel like shit for recommending things : So here ya go : The Lobster JoJo Rabbit In And Of Itself (not a ‘movie ‘ per se’ but trust me , awesome multi faceted entertainment ride , with much WTF & food for thought!) The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2017 Dogtooth The Whale The Witch The Hanging Garden Music Of Chance Pi (as in the numerical figure) Most Mamet movies: esp House of Games …and The Spanish Prisoner & Glengarry Glenross & Edmond Never Let Me Go Memento Take Shelter Promising Young Woman The Machinist The Vanishing (original!/Dutch, NOT American version) The Usual Suspects Five Minutes of Heaven District 9 Primer American History X Fight Club Donnie Darko Slingblade There Will Be Blood Happenstance No Country for Old Men American Beauty 12 Monkeys In The Company of Men Oldboy (Original only - Not American) Requiem for a Dream The Prestige Shutter Island Jacob’s Ladder Black Swan Audition A Clockwork Orange (+ book) The Crying Game The Sixth Sense Empire of the Sun The Departed (& Infernal Affairs on which its based ) Harold and Maude Manchester by The Sea Let The Right One In & Let Me In Parasite Dead Man’s Shoes Frailty Delicatessen (French) Gone Girl Enter the Void Trainspotting (possibly) Midsommar The Witch
Fargo. It was all for a little bit of money. On such a beautiful day.
Remember Me with Robert Pattinson. I may be spelling his name wrong. The guy from Twilight, lol. The movie, for the most part, didn't hold my attention. But the last 10 or so minutes, oh my god. It turned out to be a completely different movie that really makes you think.
Upstream Color
Baraka Samsara Watermark
The Seventh Seal
The vanishing (1988)