I have never looked at the news the same way after watching Nightcrawler.
It didn’t exactly change how I saw something, but Get Out really showed me in an unapologetic way how black people are talked down to by so many white people in this country and it’s made me try to be more aware of my own prejudices when it comes to being a white person. Kind of weird that a horror film did that.
Rupaul’s Drag Race. I was super turned off by the idea of watching a show about drag queens. I mean, what can be so great about a bunch of men dressing up like women, right?
And during the earlier seasons there were clips and memes circulating online that were, frankly, entertaining and really made me curious so I decided to give the show a try. And wow, I could not believe how easily it made me realize how much internalized homophobia and transphobia I had even as a gay man! The show really opened my eyes to the side of a community that I claimed to be a part but knew absolutely nothing about. Even my partner who refused to watch the show with me for the longest time and finally gave in expressed the same thoughts and realizations that I had.
It also helped me understand how easy it is for someone who is LGBT-phobic to remain so prejudiced and hateful if there is no exposure or education about the communities and cultures we’re not a part of.
I honestly found peace as a gay man that I didn’t know I was missing. And that may sound a little dramatic but it completely changed how I live my life
The Good Place. I watched it during an existential crisis to confront my fear of death. It totally changed my mind! Now, I am too comfortable with the idea of death, and sometimes want to end it faster. I’m getting too tired and depressed to watch climate change slowly consume the world.
The Good Place helped me understand that being a good person isn’t necessarily about being good all the time. It’s about being a better person than you were yesterday, for the right reasons.
I listened to Mike Schur’s audiobook about what he learned about moral philosophy in the process of making the show, and that really influenced my thinking and behaviour as well. Really worthwhile.
Well, don’t forget that the Good Place is fiction. There’s nothing waiting for you after this except nonexistence, so cling to life and claw every ounce of experience out of it while you can!
I mean the part where they go through the door… I ain’t hoping for some weird twisted demon torture chamber lol
Everything Everywhere All At Once changed my outlook on life, no joke
I agree 100%. I know that there are a lot of people who didn’t like it, but I’m so glad that the film had an impact on others like it did to me. It became an instant favorite and helped me come to terms with a lot of the thoughts and emotions I struggle with
How? I’m not trying to be a devil’s advocate or anything, I really liked the movie, too! Just am curious how it affected your outlook
I was heading straight into nihilism but this movie really showed me that existentialism was the way
That’s really cool! And arguably the purpose of the movie when so many other things are bleak. I’m happy it helped!
Heroes changed the way I look at writer’s strikes…
Dark waters https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9071322/
DuPont company and teflon. I have thrown out most of my old frying pans and replaced it with ones without harmful substances that are causing cancer.
Frying pans should be labeled as PTFE, PFOA, and PFAS free.
My real answer is a book: Slaughterhouse 5. The movie Arrival pretty much does the same thing, though.
It really changed the way I think about my place in time and space, and the meaning of memories. Made me way less sad about death and entropy.
The book that contains the story Arrival is based on, Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang, is my favorite short story collection.
Vonnegut’s Welcome to the Monkey House is also a good short story collection.
If Ted Chiang could write more than one short story a year, I think he might be the greatest living fiction author. Basically everything he writes is a revelation.
Exhalation isn’t quite as good as Stories of Your Life and Others, but it’s still amazing.
Slaughterhouse 5 had the same effect on me, as well as reframing how I view morality.
Could you share a bit more on the morality bit? Piqued my interest.
It’s specifically because of something written in the forward. I don’t remember the exact quote now, but it got pointed out that he doesn’t put villains in his stories, to which he replies that he learned that in the war. It flipped a switch in teenage me’s brain and I started forming my own opinions after that.
Atypical really gave an amazing insight into how neurodiverse people experience life and what their challenges are. One of the very best shows I have ever seen. Refreshing to have the main character be neurodiverse but no the butt of the joke like other shows used to deal with the topic most of the time.
It also showcases the many issues around someone with such a different life.
Helped me to be kinder to myself just as much as simply being more considerate of people around me. I don’t know them. I don’t know what is going on in their mind and why they act like they do. While I always attempted to be respectful of everyones reality, getting such an intimate and respectful glimpse was pretty important.
Monty Python’s Life of Brian. When I was younger and starting to question things, it just kind of struck me how religions are mainly people interpreting things through their own filter and then fighting others who don’t filter reality in the same way. It made me decide to try to do away with filters altogether, as much as is possible. Hence, I am non-partisan, non-religious, and simply try to see things from as many angles and taking as many factors into account as I can.
Six feet under changed my propective on death for the better too.
As did Dead Like Me.
I’m not the same person as I was before I watched(and later read) Annihilation, particularly in how I think about trauma
American History X
This movie made me realize, hate is taught. Yes, some people are inherently just evil human beings, but racism for the most part is taught, vulnerable people taken advantage of at an early age, they’re sense of reality warped.
Don’t give me wrong I think after you reach adulthood you are responsible for your own way of thinking but it certainly opened my eyes that it’s REALLY fucking hard to detach from that belief/mindset when it’s been hammered down to you since childhood, even in the most subtle ways.
Edit: I think this movie should shown at school.
An Inconvenient Truth.
Quite staggering to see how relevant it still is today.
“Dead Man’s Letters”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man's_Letters
Since I watched it, it made me fear the future forever and after.
Sounds interesting! I’m gunna skip it, lol
About war: Grave of the fireflies About drug: Requiem for a dream These two movies leave a scar.
