What movies have influenced your life the most?
I have watched so many movies that it's hard for me to identify which of them have influenced me the most. But I know the power of film to transform people, for better or worse.
If I were to ask myself my question, I would have to say that Forrest Gump has influenced me the most. I'm impure, but I really want to be like Forrest Gump.
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"Pierrot le Fou": This classic from Jean-Luc Godard truly baffled me at first. I just wasn't sure what to make of it. There's a feeling of total anarchy running beneath the main action - it's a pretty traditional story about a couple on the run from gangsters and the law, but the film sort of refuses to take the situation or the characters too seriously. The movie really taught me to stop seeing movies as vehicles for relating a narrative and start watching them on their own terms, just trying to unpack what the filmmaker was trying to do and how successful they've been at communicating their ideas to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycg2yb3qiUo
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit": Quite simply, when I saw it in 1988, this movie blew my f-ing mind. Not only because of the visual combination of animation and live-action, which to this very day remains striking and impressive - but the nods to classic detective and noir movies which I had not yet seen. I believe that my lifelong love of these genres (including ''Chinatown'', a direct inspiration to this film) relates back to the sheer joy I had as a 10-year-old watching this film in the theater.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H9f8qUrF6w
"A Clockwork Orange": A meditation on morality, justice and consciousness, Stanley Kubrick's controversial classic was one of the first films that really altered my perceptions about government and law. The very idea of telling a film from the perspective of a sociopath, and in particular asking (or maybe even daring) audiences to sympathize with a gleeful rapist and murderer, seems like an impossible chore. After realizing that Kubrick not only does this, but does it successfully, I found myself disoriented, impressed with the movie but almost troubled at how it challenged so many of my long-held beliefs about the nature of good and evil. Certainly, I wouldn't think about things like capital punishment, rendition or "enhanced interrogation techniques" in the same way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n2NXuQ5ako
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A few films led me to The Matrix, but it's the Matrix that has the strongest grasp on me.
I am quite fascinated by robots and the creating of robots that are getting smarter by the year. I read scores of articles about robots and tech every day.
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