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Possibly the strangest thing I've done. Give the whole thing a watch because the tone shifts half way through.

 

 

I'm not wasting 4 minutes of my life on whatever that is. Thanks.

 

Your loss. It will expand your views and change your outlook on certain things (bread is a subliminal recurring theme for example) but thats fine. :)

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I'm not wasting 4 minutes of my life on whatever that is. Thanks.

 

Your loss. It will expand your views and change your outlook on certain things (bread is a subliminal recurring theme for example) but thats fine. :)

 

I don't have any more faith in humanity left to lose, I'm afraid.

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... Anyway, here's a list of the 'mindfuck' movies I have that I'm working through, if anyone's interested. Bolded are the ones I've seen...

 

12 Monkeys

2001: A Space Oddysey

American Psycho

Being John Malkovich

Cypher

Donnie Darko

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

eXistenZ

Fight Club

Frailty

Jacob's Ladder

Lost Highway

Memento

Mulholland Drive

Naked Lunch

Oldboy

One Hour Photo

Pi

Primer

A Scanner Darkly

Scanners

Session 9

The Game

The Illusionist

The Machinist

The Others

The Prestige

The Sixth Sense

Vanilla Sky

Videodrome

A Beautiful mind

A Clockwork Orange

Adaptation

Barton Fink

Brazil

Dark City

Dead mans Shoes

Eraserhead

Identity

In The Mouth Of Madness

Lucky Number Slevin

One Point O

Pink Floyd: The Wall

Rashomon

Requiem For A Dream

Revolver

Spellbound

Spider

Spun Limited

Synecdoche New York

The 13th Floor

The Butterfly Effect

The Fountain

The Jacket

The number 23

The Salton Sea

The Usual Suspects

Waking Life

What Dreams May Come

 

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The Five Obstructions (not sure if it's mindfuck, it's un an unmarked folder)

 

A good mixture of movies there. What would people recommend I watch next? Synecdoche is top of my list...

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Well done for including 2001: A Space Odyssey. That film is great for that "I think I get it, but I really get very little at all" feeling. Especially the last 5 minutes, with the "Star-gate" and beyond.

 

The Virgin Suicides was quite strange, I definitely want to see that again. Another one was a film called "Storytelling", which was essentially split up into two segments. Fiction and Non-fiction. It's not the best film that you'll ever see, but it is a bit strange and quite interesting.

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Virgin Suicides is good. For some reason my mind allocates it with Stand By Me and Dead Poets Society. They all have that tone to them... None are mindfucks, but all are wholesome, not-quite-family films that seem to me to be a good stepping stone between childhood and adulthood cinema, leaving you with something to feel, yet getting you there in a rather didactic way that isn't seriously challenging, just unexpected.

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Virgin Suicides is good. For some reason my mind allocates it with Stand By Me and Dead Poets Society. They all have that tone to them... None are mindfucks, but all are wholesome, not-quite-family films that seem to me to be a good stepping stone between childhood and adulthood cinema, leaving you with something to feel, yet getting you there in a rather didactic way that isn't seriously challenging, just unexpected.

 

I agree with you on that, especially the stepping stone part. I think maybe you mean "coming-of-age." I love those types of films. I actually watched Stand By Me the other day, it never ever gets old. My perfect film.

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Synecdoche is top of my list...

 

As it should be. :bouncy:

 

You've seen Inland Empire haven't you? I'm sure you said you had ages ago...if not, get on that.

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