Movies that STRETCH your mind: The Truman Show as one example

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feeds@yuku.com (Taranberk) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:54:52 GMT

Bizarre. I have all of these films.

Truman show (1998) and ED TV (1999) are two of my favorites. I like the idea of bringing popular culture into film and satirizing it. One less obvious film that does this really well is Idiocracy. If you take Judge Judy, Wrestling, monster truck rallies, a lot of other popular culture, and a bit of science fiction (aka Demolition Man), you get a surprisingly biting view of the dumbing down of future society. This film appears to be just...

Re: Movies that STRETCH your mind: The Truman Show as one example

feeds@yuku.com (Kurtgul) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:30:35 GMT

Crash was one to open eyes about racism. Grand Torino was another one. Having lived near Detroit during the riots it was a real eye opener for me back then.
Momento is one about a man that has short term memory loss and has to write everything down. He is searching for his past and does anything to try and help himself but because of his memory loss it is challenging. This is one movie you have have to see at least twice before it starts to click.
Being a Sci Fi geek I loved the...

Re: Movies that STRETCH your mind: The Truman Show as one example

feeds@yuku.com (autumngal2) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:47:16 GMT

Love the Truman show. Great movie! I have never seen Crash. I keep meaning to put it on my NetFlix list.

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feeds@yuku.com (MoodyJill) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:11:40 GMT

Crash is a movie about bigotry and racial stereotyping, and it shows that everyone harbors these attitudes. The lives of a number of different people are interweaved in the movie, so that you see, for example, that the despicable policeman who feels up a black woman when he pulls her car over is also, in his personal life, dealing with a father who has chronic pain from a urinary tract infection; he cannot get much help from his father's social worker because of his racially-tinged...

Re: Movies that STRETCH your mind: The Truman Show as one example

feeds@yuku.com (MoodyJill) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:55:36 GMT

"Pleasantville" was an old black-and-white television show that took place in an idyllic town where everything was always perfect-the basketball team never lost a game, the only work for the local firemen was to rescue cats from trees because there were never any real fires, etc. Teenager David was a huge fan of the show, and then one day, during a fight with his twin sister Jennifer, their TV remote broke and the two of them found themselves actually living in Pleasantville, in...

Re: Movies that STRETCH your mind: The Truman Show as one example

feeds@yuku.com (MoodyJill) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:39:39 GMT

For those who saw the movie and liked it as much as I did, you might enjoy this beautiful interpretative video:

Movies that STRETCH your mind: The Truman Show as one example

feeds@yuku.com (MoodyJill) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:38:23 GMT

Are there any movies that you love because they force you to stretch your mind, or to see life from a different perspective?

One of the movies along with line that I love is The Truman Show. The movie's plot is that Truman (played by Jim Carey) has lived his entire life in a completely constructed reality-all of the people in his world are actually actors playing roles in a television show broadcast to the rest of the world...