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I just remembered Open Water 2, which isnt the best film in the world, but what a premise...  

 

6 friends have a party on a weekend cruise in the open sea. Four of them jump into the sea for a swim. The other two think that looks fun and jump in after them. Everyone's having a great time until they realise that no one remains on the boat to lower the ladder. 

 

Along with Frozen (mentioned earlier, not the Disney one) , they both really hammer home how fragile your life is. Thinking about it, those situations could happen so easily.

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12 Angry Men - 12 men from a jury deliberate a murder trial. The whole film takes place in one room. I love this because we as the audience never leave the room other than the start where they enter and the end when they leave. We have to make our mind up about the case based purely on what these men discuss in the room. We only see the accused brief at the start but none of the trial, so there is litterally no predisposition. One of the best films I've ever seen.

 

Room - A really harrowing tale of a  woman and child kept in a room against their will for several years. For the child the room is all they know too as they are born in it. So its a really fascinating look at a woman who has lived in and knows of the world and a child who only knows of the room and how the mother has to deal with that. Both leads are utterly fantastic and one of only a few films to make me cry, not just tear up (loads of films have done that), but really make me a blubbering mess.

 

Lion - Another film that absolutely wrecked me and made me a crying mess more than once. The real life story of an Indian man who uses Google Maps to find his birth mother and village after becoming lost and separated from his brother when he was only 5 years old.

 

Rear Window - One of my favourite Hitchcock films with one of my favourite actors of all time, Jimmy Stewart. A man laid up in his apartment with a broken leg begins a fascination with watching his neighbours from his apartment window, only to discover that one of them may be harboring a terrible and deadly secret.

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Maybe off topic, but while looking for Coherence to add it to my watchlist (even though I’ve a vague idea I’ve already watched it, or something similar...), Amazon Prime also recommended some other movies, including this amazing sounding trash, which I’m tempted to watch just to see how bad it might be...

 

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I'd like a film about a future utopia. In case you misread that, I said utopia, not dystopia. What you mean..you want a film where everything is alright? Yeah. Oh and then there's some revelation that unearths the dark heart at the centre of it, like we control climate change but melt babies in acid for some reason that probably has a purpose or robots do all the work but they grow personalities all of which are really racist no nothing like that. A film with no action in it whatsoever, just think of all the time being saved to focus on the perfect harmony of another type of living. 

 

People still refer to the Culture novels as an example of a utopia. And that was only over 30 years ago and doesn't serve as proof of our aching inability to imagine anything other than what we put up with. David Cameron was on the radio yesterday, telling the host -who still obviously like everyone is in thrall to status so Cameron isn't a cunt but someone worth speaking to- that he goes knocking on doors with food, like a travelling food bank. I wish I had the denseness to not correlate actions in government whilst prime minister with poverty. It'd be like a superpower. I bet David Cameron is one of 17 people who ever lived who doesn't have regrets on a slideshow as he struggles to sleep. 

 

We all know poverty is an unknowable monster, an insidious evil, it seeps through cracks, it's not even visible, people hide it like a bottle of alcohol in their bag. We all know it's an absolute thing and doesn't fluctuate based on I earn this much my bills are this much and it has nothing to do with growing inequality. We all know the best business is the one where you cause systemic generational problems then sell the solution back to them. 

 

There are about 20,000 films made every year. A lot of books as well I guess. We fill all possible gaps except the one that will save us from extinction. 

 

what is this thread about I vote symbol it's about a guy in a room who can't get out sort of like a metaphor for humanity hahahah he comes up with ideas, screams a bit, then probably gets out I can't remember the film has to end some way doesn't it

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17 hours ago, FishyFish said:

Maybe off topic, but while looking for Coherence to add it to my watchlist (even though I’ve a vague idea I’ve already watched it, or something similar...), Amazon Prime also recommended some other movies, including this amazing sounding trash, which I’m tempted to watch just to see how bad it might be...

 

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You need to take one for the team...

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I wasn't sure whether to start a new thread for this, because In The Shadow Of The Moon isn't ideal for this thread but shares a lot of the common traits of the films we've been discussing. In The Shadow of the Moon is probably best scene with no prior knowledge at all but if you want a tiny intro 

Spoiler

It's got cops, villains and time travel. It doesn't seem to be super high budget or anything and isn't a film I'd heard of before.

 

 

And if you need more (spoilers!)

Spoiler

A cop chases an unusual serial killer across town. She's killing apparently random people by injecting them with an unknown poison. After a number of murders the woman is chased into the subway station. The cop manages to accidentally throw the killer into the path on an oncoming train, but before that happens the killer says things that suggest they have met before.  The case goes cold as there is no trace of this woman from dental records and fingerprints, and as she's dead everyone moves on to solving other cases. But then on the same date, nine years later, something happens. 

 

And for the ultimate reveal....

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Watch the film! It's great!

 

 

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