Inception

Villemar · (This post was last modified: 22-11-2010, 09:46 AM by Villemar.)

(21-11-2010, 11:14 PM)bitbomb Wrote: I love the cool little Linklater-isms in Waking Life, too. Trains are a major theme in a lot of his films, and the characters from two of his other films "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset" have a scene together (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy).

I love the way Waking Life resembles so many late night conversations with close friends. There were so many familiar ideas, and tons of new ones. One thing I was particularly intrigued by was the conversation about the human collective. I've always felt that, and have experienced a lot that can be evidence to support the idea.

One other movie I just thought of that is VERY Matrix without being cyberpunk is the film adaptation of Nineteen Eighty Four. It's absolutely worth watching if you can find it.

Love Linklater. And especially love the conversation Richard Linklater himself has with the main character about Philip K dick, which was a nice segue into his subsequent film "A Scanner Darkly." If you really want to get into the rabbit hole, try getting into Philip K Dick. And, there is an independent film coming out called "Radio Free Albemuth," which is on the festival circut right now. One of my personal favorites, and one of his last works. Dystopian but a good articulation of some of his later unexplained personal gnostic experiences which threw his questioning of reality into hyperdrive towards the end of his life. Somewhat esoteric but very insightful if you want to go down that rabbit hole (and the whole Matrix story is one of classic Gnosticism...ie. "The world around us is False.")

I did like 1984 although for me Terry Gilliam's classic "Brazil" supersedes it because it really does question what is reality, and is in a world of that kind of low-tech, grey, fascistic technology....lots of wires and tubes, heh. And, it did come out in the mid '80's as well.

Also, I got a lot of ideas for movies of this type when after re-watching Waking Life, I went to imdb to look up something and found a great thread on the message boards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/boar...009780?p=1

It's people listing their top "philosophical" movies and from that I got a lot of great ideas. Although, I mostly bypassed the ones that were not specifically of the mindf&cker/what-is-the-nature-of-reality genre.