Philosophical movie recommendations

IndridCold · 07-05-2016 08:57PM #1

Recently I have been wanting to check out some philosophical movies. Does anyone have any good suggestions as to some great philosophical movies?

Cheers

Ash.J.Williams · 07-05-2016 09:00PM

IndridCold wrote: »

Recently I have been wanting to check out some philosophical movies. Does anyone have any good suggestions as to some great philosophical movies?

Cheers

Dead mans shoes

LightsStillOn · 07-05-2016 09:11PM

Waking Life by Richard Linklater is probably the best one. It's a bit trippy the way it's shot, used live actors and animated over them with after effects, and there's not really any story at all, but the dialogue in it is fantastic.

Tipsy McSwagger · 07-05-2016 09:49PM

Dude where's my car.

Liam McPoyle · 07-05-2016 09:55PM

Pi.

Dunno if its quite philosophical but it has some intriguing ideas.

Ageyev · 08-05-2016 03:01AM

Bergman, all of Bergman

Agent Coulson · 08-05-2016 02:12PM

The Matrix.

"You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

Slydice · 08-05-2016 03:25PM

Watch all the work of Lenny Abrahamson:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Abrahamson

If you get the Prosperity TV Series, post where you bought/downloaded it from.

e_e · 08-05-2016 07:42PM

These directors:

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Abbas Kiarostami
Andrei Tarkovsky
Ingmar Bergman
Roy Andersson

Also Sans Soleil

Ageyev · 08-05-2016 07:54PM

The IFI in Dublin are dojng a season of Andrei Tarkovsky.

Sad Professor · 08-05-2016 08:10PM

Slydice wrote: »

Watch all the work of Lenny Abrahamson:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Abrahamson

Very interesting suggestion. Reoccurring mental and moral themes in all his films. And rather that turn the film into some reductionist critique about the society or culture, his approach to them is deeply humanistic. His films aren't overtly philosophical like most of the directors mentioned. He doesn't articulate the questions in dialogue like Linklator, he internalises them through the drama of the film.

By reducing all the class stuff to (blatant) subtext in What Richard Did, he made a far more powerful film about what social class really means in terms of giving someone expectations they feel compelled to live up to. And what happens when those expectations get taken away.

A lot of Frank went over my head, though. I need to watch that one again.