Which movie changed your life?

Have you ever watched a movie or TV show and at the end of it you changed your view on life?

When I watched 12 Years a Slave (crying through the whole thing) at the end I stopped complaining and being emotional over little things, or even bigger things I go through because compared to the situations some people have been in/are in right now, my life is a fairytale.

Also I know it sound silly because it's fiction but Game of Thrones also. I mean the people go through so much and yet all they care about is staying alive! Even when they have nothing etc. Yet here I was with all these dark thoughts.

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Reply 1

Mackay

American Beauty. Watched it at just the right time to affect me.

Reply 2

Rum Ham

Film - The Green Mile, How To Train Your Dragon and the second one and Homeward Bound

TV Show - Stargate SG1, Star Trek and Grey's Anatomy

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Reply 3

MsSnape

I can think of loads of films (and tv programmes) have affected me in different ways.
Precious and Fish Tank really altered my perception of home lives of some students. I think these are must watch films if you work with young people.

Reply 4

MsSnape

If you like 12 years a slave you must watch Shame and Hunger, very different but brilliant films :smile:

Reply 5

mali167

Original post by MsSnape

Both were very sad and really very powerful films. Precious was just so dark. Was like so in your face kind of reality.

Original post by MsSnape

If you like 12 years a slave you must watch Shame and Hunger, very different but brilliant films :smile:

Yeah, all by the same director. Shame was quite bleak I guess. I didn't agree with one thing though.. If someone is so addicted to pornography like the main character, how would he be so good with women........

Reply 6

Ndella

Precious. It made me value the loving and motivating environment my parents brought me into.

Reply 7

aliman65

Dexter has really inspired me...

Reply 8

TheAnusFiles

Midnight Cowboy, Edward Scissorhands and Taxi Driver are my three favourite films.

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Reply 9

TheAnusFiles

Original post by MsSnape

If you like 12 years a slave you must watch Shame and Hunger, very different but brilliant films :smile:

I like Steve McQueen (or what I've seen so far). I'm looking forward to seeing what he does next.

Reply 10

thisistheend

The Matrix.

Years later, I would study it in Philosophy class at university.

Reply 11

DeadEnd_96

Transformers Age of Extinction :smile:

Reply 12

XMaramena

Hmm. Boy in Striped Pyjamas, The Pianist, and Defiance. The Matrix was very interesting and always makes me wonder :P

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was simply beautiful, opened my eyes to a looking beyond the exterior to find true beauty. Same with The Darjeeling Limited.

Reply 13

Nogoodsorgods

American Beauty was more or less a 90s answer to The Graduate. A main character who has a comfortable American Dream life that he doesn't like the direction of. A cross generational affair. A moody soundtrack. It's a good film. I wouldn't say it changed me. If the white picket fence life is good enough for Scott Bakula why not everyone. But its quirky, fraught, eroticism in the suburbs appealed to my idea that there is potentially magic in everything. 'look closer'. It's unashamedly voyeuristic - even the guy at work who is insulted by Lester voyeuristically wonders how Lester can have so much passion. It seems a cop out. If Angela wanted him and he wanted Angela where is the harm? But maybe he realises he'd only be trading one American Dream for another.

Dead Poets Society - not a lot of people went to see it at the cinema actually (nor me). It was the year of Batman.
But it does convey a mood very well, probably largely thanks to Peter Weir's direction and how it reined in Robin Williams as well.
I also loved him in Mrs Doubtfire. It conveyed that caring instincts are not something that have to be exclusively feminine.

But it was arguably Jack Nicholson as The Joker who had the most affect on me in the cinema. Larger than life, dancing to Prince, dispensing literally cutting wit (the pen is the truly mightier than the sword) he was 'Pop Art' and pop star personified which appealed to part of my Leo exuberance.

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Reply 14

imalemur

Even though I have grown to dislike Adam Sandler films, I really liked the film Click. When I first watched it I was playing games all day and doing nothing else, I felt as if I was wasting my life away and it's one of the few films that made me look at my own life and really want to change.