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Philosophical movie recommendations

  • 07-05-2016 08:57PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭


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

    Cheers


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,903 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭LightsStillOn


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,072 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    Dude where's my car.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    Pi.

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Ageyev


    Bergman, all of Bergman


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    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."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Ageyev


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


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,699 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Wedwood


    Life of Pi


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭shazzerman


    My Night at Maud's


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    'Fight Club' very good film with lot of Friedrich Nietzsche undertones throughout.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    My Dinner with Andre.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭charlie_says


    Solyaris 1972 is a fairly philosophical movie.

    It's also one of my favourites of all time.


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