Daily Question, August 18 What movie(s) changed your life or, at least, perspective? 35 Reflections Share Click here to cancel reply.Please log in or Create a Profile to post a comment. Notify me when someone replies to my comment via e-mail. Kristina6 months agoKristinaHow come non of you mentioned “Into The Wild”? ? As a Teen I started to feel the deep urge to disapear in nature, be on my own, live in a vast and wide land, to enjoy the quiet and have time just to explore myself and have time with God. When I stumbled upon said movie I watched it in awe and couldnt believe I found somebody having so similar feelings to mine and his story being shared worldwide. This made me sad cause I felt a lot of people didn’t understand him right or were talkin bad a...How come non of you mentioned “Into The Wild”? ? As a Teen I started to feel the deep urge to disapear in nature, be on my own, live in a vast and wide land, to enjoy the quiet and have time just to explore myself and have time with God. When I stumbled upon said movie I watched it in awe and couldnt believe I found somebody having so similar feelings to mine and his story being shared worldwide. This made me sad cause I felt a lot of people didn’t understand him right or were talkin bad about him. I still cry everytime I see the movie (even though I saw it often) and still envy him for his courage. Read More3 Reply Claudia6 months agoClaudiaThere are so many great movies! One scene that seems to always make its way back into my thinking is in Good Will Hunting. Robin Williams meets Matt Damon’s character on a park bench – As Sean, Will’s might be therapist, he delivers a monologue about living life fully, in person, with all its vulnerabilities. He warns Will against making blanket assumptions about people and weaponizing those assumptions to protect his own vulnerable self. It’s really brilliant. 2 Reply Malag6 months agoMalagThe Mission, Diva, Star Wars, Casablanca 1 Reply Katrina6 months agoKatrinaYes! The Mission! 1 Reply Hot Sauce6 months agoHot SauceInside Out, The Matrix, Inception, Wanted, McFarland USA, The Craft, Exorcist: The Beginning, Saved!, and Dagon have shifted my perspective on mental health and the fragmentation of personality; the thin line between what is real and what is illusory; the nature of subjective and objective time; the nature of telepathy; effort and faith's effects on achieving a goal; the responsibilities and risks that come with using magick; feelings of God's absence in the face of trauma; the ridiculousness of...Inside Out, The Matrix, Inception, Wanted, McFarland USA, The Craft, Exorcist: The Beginning, Saved!, and Dagon have shifted my perspective on mental health and the fragmentation of personality; the thin line between what is real and what is illusory; the nature of subjective and objective time; the nature of telepathy; effort and faith’s effects on achieving a goal; the responsibilities and risks that come with using magick; feelings of God’s absence in the face of trauma; the ridiculousness of religious fundamentalism; and how we cope when the reality we have known is turned upside down. Read More2 Reply Michele6 months agoMicheleYou might like The Voices, with Ryan Reynolds – was very good. 2 Reply Sunflower6 months agoSunflowerAlready night time and I really need to sleep, but I would like to shortly reply to your beautiful post. Need to see the last three movies! where you seem to have drawn out the most important aspects which you mentioned. A clear Yes to all of your described perspective. Wishing us all peaceful dreams and a happy new day arising. 2 Reply Melissa6 months agoMelissaAs a child Bambi, Old Yeller, The Wizard of Oz. when older, West Side Story ,Schindler’s List, A Space Odyssey, The Green Mile, Forest Gump, Back To The Future, Star Wars, The Graduate, Rain Man, Cinema Paradiso, The Children of Men. Bohemian Rhapsody ..so many more. I love movies. Movies take me out of myself to another place while watching. A simple pleasure. 3 Reply Trish6 months agoTrishThe Graduate~yes!! 1 Reply Don Jones6 months agoDon JonesThis one! I am the star. Every day is a revelation. I call it Don’s Party. I just need to ensure that I am 100% awake and focused. I would hate to fall asleep and wake at the end when the credits are rolling with a look of bewilderment on my face. 2 Reply andi6 months agoandiMoana. It reminds me of my roots and my childhood. 3 Reply Kat6 months agoKatBlack Fish 3 Reply orozcoj136 months agoorozcoj13The movie The Fountain with Hugh Jackman. The eternal cycle of love and appreciation. A cycle of birth, death, and renewal. This movie made my appreciate the macro and micro worlds we are only able to see through a lens. This movie was so beautifully done. It features self care, self destruction, botany, martial arts, science and technology, astronomy, and history. All very beautiful. 3 Reply Mica6 months agoMicaAirplane! It’s having some anniversary now. I watched it endlessly on my laptop at bedtime, during a difficult time when I was living in marginal housing to be near my baby granddaughter. Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? My ex and I watched it a lot. ‘What a dump!’ was my most memorable quote. Those are the 2 that come to mind. 4 Reply Linda6 months agoLindaI loved the movie “Traffic.” It covered the worst of humankind, and the best. There was redemption at the end–it still brings me to tears. 4 Reply Drew Blanton6 months agoDrew BlantonAny Disney movie. Disney helped inspire me to be an actor. I’ve done improv and plays. I was even an extra in a movie called NOT FORGOTTEN! It definitely wasn’t Disney, though. 4 Reply Zenith6 months agoZenithShine. It put the idea of returning to the piano into my head. I did make it back to college and graduated this time, but was not permitted to major in Performance. I was only allowed to earn a BA, in 2014 at 60 years of age. Unfortunately, due to reasons beyond my control, I have not done anything with the degree. But I still play every day and discovered my true call is singing. 6 Reply Katrina6 months agoKatrinaWhen I was in Jr. High school in my little farming community of West Texas my Sunday School teacher took our class to the closest big town to see "Anne of a Thousand Days", "A Man for all Seasons" and "The Sound of Music". This made a bigger impact on my life than any Sunday School lesson she and her husband taught - opening the world of the connection between history, the Church, social issues, and the ways that theater/film could tell these stories in a way that was much more helpful to me tha...When I was in Jr. High school in my little farming community of West Texas my Sunday School teacher took our class to the closest big town to see “Anne of a Thousand Days”, “A Man for all Seasons” and “The Sound of Music”. This made a bigger impact on my life than any Sunday School lesson she and her husband taught – opening the world of the connection between history, the Church, social issues, and the ways that theater/film could tell these stories in a way that was much more helpful to me than sitting in a classroom. This planted a seed for learning more throughout my life, and cultivating values that sent me in directions of a more socially involved faith. Read More4 Reply Michele6 months agoMicheleTitanic – the cockiness of them thinking that ship could not sink, the arrogance of having different classes. Fried Green Tomatoes – just recently re-watched this great movie. I have to also include all the Harry Potter movies with such great quotes and themes of love, friendship, and courage. Have to add Under The Tuscan Sun. 4 Reply Pilgrim6 months agoPilgrimLove (and own) Fried Green Tomatoes, and watch it at least a couple times a year. Great acting, great story. 3 Reply Katrina6 months agoKatrinaFried Green Tomatoes was one I watched over and over. Seeing “Tawanda” grow in her own personhood was so powerful to me at the time. It was life-changing for me. 3 Reply eliza6 months agoelizaThe film that had the most prfound affect on me was Schindlers List – i remember wandering around the streets after leaving the cinema lost in a terrible silence too deep for words. It still haunts me but challenges me too to support as best i can those who are persecuted and to celebrate and highlight the lives of those who make a difference. 4 Reply Howie Geib6 months agoHowie GeibThe works of Luca Guadagnino have recently influenced my perspective. I love his eye. He curates his films. And the details are so beautifully and seemingly effortlessly laid before you that they animate the narrative which I admire. His stories, too, tend to be pilgrimages and yet the heroes and heroines are complex and imperfect so infinitely human. Many ofter films have influences on my perspective (far too many to list) and yet they seem to share this quality: to first and foremost ‘enter...The works of Luca Guadagnino have recently influenced my perspective. I love his eye. He curates his films. And the details are so beautifully and seemingly effortlessly laid before you that they animate the narrative which I admire. His stories, too, tend to be pilgrimages and yet the heroes and heroines are complex and imperfect so infinitely human. Many ofter films have influences on my perspective (far too many to list) and yet they seem to share this quality: to first and foremost ‘entertain’ and yet they have this trojan horse aspect: once in my mind they seem to resonate for a long time. Read More3 Reply sunnypatti6 months agosunnypattiEat, Pray, Love The Notebook The Sea Within Forrest Gump 3 Reply Pilgrim6 months agoPilgrimForest Gump – definitely! Tom Hanks is so versatile an actor. 2 Reply Trish6 months agoTrishEat Pray Love was a game changer for me! 3 Reply Michele6 months agoMicheleyes, The Notebook and Forrest Gump sooo good – definitely need box of tissues! 3 Reply Pollyanna Gladwell6 months agoPollyanna GladwellIt was 1993, and I was at drama school in NYC when Schindler’s List was released. I went to see it with some of my classmates, one of whom was a young and generally effusive German man of around 25. Afterwards everybody came back to my apartment for coffee and a discussion about the film and, particularly, the fantastic acting. Our young German friend, who usually shared perceptive critical remarks about any film or play we went to, sat in silence in a kind of daze and it was only when h...It was 1993, and I was at drama school in NYC when Schindler’s List was released. I went to see it with some of my classmates, one of whom was a young and generally effusive German man of around 25. Afterwards everybody came back to my apartment for coffee and a discussion about the film and, particularly, the fantastic acting. Our young German friend, who usually shared perceptive critical remarks about any film or play we went to, sat in silence in a kind of daze and it was only when he was asked outright for his opinion that he murmured, “They never told us.” When asked who “They” were, he said his parents and teachers. I found it easy to believe that his parents hadn’t discussed the Hitler period, as, in common with the parents of German and Austrian friends I now have, his father was a member of the Nazi party and, of course, was in the army. But I couldn’t believe that he had no knowledge of the Holocaust. I spoke to him privately about it the next day and he explained that while it had indeed been mentioned in history class, it had been glossed over in a few sentences and no-one had explained any of the details or the full horror that it entailed. And of course, his teachers were likely either former Nazis themselves, or offspring of such. Their country’s history was either to be denied completely or to be presented sparingly. It wasn’t exactly revisionist, but it sure wasn’t full disclosure. It wasn’t personal. But the movie had opened his eyes and he went on to become a voracious reader of books about Hitler and his Final Solution. So the movie itself changed his life, but it also changed and illuminated my perspective of the power that filmmaking (and culture in general) has to illustrate and teach about life. Read More7 Reply Trish6 months agoTrishSo many movies….The Shawshank Redemption runs the gamut of emotions. I’m wiped out by the end of the movie. It’s beautiful & disturbing and filled with the intricacies of reality. There are little scene snapshots that live inside of me. 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