| After These 5 Movies You Will Never Be the Same. |
| Written by James Dolson |
| Monday, 30 November 2009 08:15 |
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What exactly does it mean when you stumble upon a movie that changes your life? One critic defined it as the ultimate in perspective shift, something that really comes along and shakes the foundations of how you view the world.
What exactly does it mean when you stumble upon a movie that changes your life? One critic defined it as the ultimate in perspective shift, something that really comes along and shakes the foundations of how you view the world. Sometimes people make a list of movies that aren't all that watchable. Not these -- you can see these 5 ones thousands of times, and they are really, really powerful films. #5: Triumph of the Will. If you want to understand war films, and films that glorify things (be it anything -- war, a country, a person), this is the film to have in your repertoire when you need to think about it. Not because the subject of the film is wonderful or because Riefenstahl is a genius, but because of what this movie says about spectacle. #4: Bicycle Thieves. If you want a little bit of proof that a simplistic story with the vaguest of outlines -- man gets bike and job, bike is stolen, man loses job and steals another bike -- can say universal things about humanity and sadness, then this is your film. #3: Chinatown. Polanski, despite the mess he created for himself before leaving America, made what is undoubtedly one of the best American films of all time. This might just be one of those movies that says more about Hollywood than any other, which is important if you ever think about what the movies 'mean' to us. #2: Vertigo. There is no other film that tricks the viewer into thinking they are watching just a normal (albeit extremely brilliant) thriller, while simultaneously deconstructing everything about what an actual film director does on set. If you ever need to see a film that can have so much going on all at once without seeming overcrowded, this is it. #1: America is Summed Up in The Godfather. You can almost never get tired of this film, it is that good on first go -- nearly every scene is legendarily filmed, acted, and executed, and then the fact that it happens to convey some grand and great things about America is almost like a bonus, until that becomes the reason you return to it 50 times. About the Author: Want to find out more about tv series on dvd, then visit James Dolson's site on how to choose the best dvd sets for your needs. |