Does anybody know of some good movies that might be considered "Required Watching"?
I know of a couple like Southern Comfort and Transamerica, but also Bicentennial Man (I cried and got goosebumps during that one when he spoke about why he wanted to legally be human) and Blade Runner because he fell in love with a man-made woman.
I personally could not stand Hedwig and the Angry Inch or The Rocky Horror Picture show.
A.k.a. One man with a carrot fetish finds himself stranded with a baby, that everybody wants to see dead. He picks up a hooker and finds amazingly creative ways to shoot his way through a truckload of bad guys.
What's it got to do with Trans people ? Nothing really.. but it's still a damn good movie.
After a 30-year career, am now a retired and homely old lady with a lez partner and a cat. -- --------------------------------------------------------- "We are not passengers on spaceship Earth.... We are the crew"
A good movie to watch for anyone is Terry Gilliam's Brazil. IMO, the most intelligent thing ever made on film, and the more relevant the more time passes.
A future when individualism is kept under check through bureaucracy, consumerism and "térrorism" used by the state as a tool of social control. Where people feel they must have plastic surgery after they turn a certain age.
Everything can be subtly controlled, but one's dreams and feelings. A masterpiece.
INTERVIEWER: Deputy minister, what do you believe is behind this recent increase in térrorist bombings?
HELPMANN: Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seems to have forgotten certain good old fashioned virtues. They just can't stand seeing the other fellow win. If these people would just play the game, instead of standing on the touch line heckling...
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INTERVIEWER: And the cost of it all, Deputy Minister? Seven percent of the gross national product...
HELPMANN: I understand this concern on behalf of the tax-payers. People want value for money and a cost-effective service. That is why we always insist on the principle of Information Retrieval Charges. These térrorists are not pulling their weight, and it's absolutely right and fair that those found guilty should pay for their periods of detention and the Information Retrieval Procedures used in their interrogation.
INTERVIEWER: Do you think that the government is winning the battle against térrorists?
HELPMANN: On yes. Our morale is much higher than theirs, we're fielding all their strokes, running a lot of them out, and pretty consistently knocking them for six. I'd say they're nearly out of the game.
INTERVIEWER: But the bombing campaign is now in its thirteenth year...
HELPMANN: Beginner's luck.
--- And the amazing scene in the Information Retrieval ministry, when Sam Lowry goes to report to work for the first day:
In a society where you have to present IDs left and right and there are cameras, spies and microphones everywhere, that scene is much more pointed.
"Information Retrieval" is an euphemism for torture, and that ministry is where all the information about people is processed, and where it is decided who may be too subversive to be allowed to keep on breathing.
A great movie and the only one that, to me, deserves the 10.0 rating. Of course, the best dictatorship is one where no one realizes it's in fact a dictatorship.
_________________________ This a spiritual thing and I am the laughing Buddha sitting on top of the world. Donnalee.
"Populace above, populace below! What are 'poor' and 'rich' at present! That distinction did I unlearn,—then did I flee away further and ever further, until I came to those kine." --Thus Spake Zarathustra / Friedrich Nietzsche.
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