Philosophical Films
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It's extremely difficult to persevere towards goodness
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Any thoughts on the film?
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It covers several topics but ultimately it's about multiple universes and the effects of the main characters differing choices in each. It's free on You Tube so if you want a look, go see.
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About as excellent as the American classic A birth of a nation. But I'll give it its due as a triumphant effort at propaganda. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9UPOkIpR0A But I like how bigotry and caricature pose as high minded philosophizing on film. You might as well put that moronic and bigoted film Stigmata up there too.Grotto19 wrote: Dogma- Kevin smith,1999. Excellent and interesting perspective on the state of world religions.
From a stand point of sociology a "group" is several people that know each other while the sociological locution of "category" demotes people that share a common characteristic. Examples of a category of people would be: Whites, blacks, women, homosexuals, Muslims, Catholics, Republicans...
I'm mulatto racially but ethnically Black-American. I also fall under the categories of American and Catholic and male. Of the latter three American and male have probably proved the most violent over the last century. But more importantly between whites and Catholicism (a religion) arguably whites have been the most violent, territorial, and the ones that established racial caste systems across the earth. Ought the Nation of Islam (a neo-Islamic Black-American organization and religion) caricature white people? Well... they do. And they take their bigoted views of whites to be very intellectual and solid truth.
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This can be said between them all. To me, Godard is best compared to Bob Dylan. Some of his films I would consider watching are Breathless, A Woman Is a Woman, Vivre sa vie, Contempt, Pierrot Le Feu, Week End, Made in U.S.A. Of these, Pierrot Le Feu is arguably the most philosophical and for what it is worth, my favorite Godard film.
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- Lost Highway
- Tideland
- City of God
- The Killing Fields
- Schindler's List
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Amores Peros
- Pink Floyd: The Wall
- Priest
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- A Clockwork Orange
- Equilibrium
- Cube
- The Holy Mountain
- Full Metal Jacket
- Paprika
- Forrest Gump
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- No Direction Home
- We Were Warriors
- The Royal Tennenbaums
- Naked Lunch
- Brazil
- Big Fish
- Donnie Darko
- The Matrix series
- Casablanca
- Pulp Fiction
- Logan's Run
- Blade Runner
- Seven Days in May
- Up
- Inland Empire
- City of Lost Children
- Existenz
- A.I.
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It is available on youtube. Here are the basics:
http://www.philfilms.utm.edu/1/mindwalk.htm
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Ugh!! I saw that on DVD. Horrible.Nick_A wrote:If anyone has the time and inclination to watch a movie now on the Internet that inspires meaningful thought, try "Mindwalk."
The people ramble on without ever coming to a point. It's worse than watching "The Power of Myth" with Bill Moyers.
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Movies don't don't do much for me philosophically, they just waste my brain energy while I watch colored light move on a wall or pictels on a screen. The things that happen, as a result, are self-accepted delusion by and in my brain. None of it is real and any philosophical thoughts are mine.
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Moi just lovey-doveys Bergman's TSS. I'd really dig dubbing it into English. YIKES! I'm a-gonna go & google to see if anyone's done did that.Vojos wrote:Hello there!
As far as i know there aren't any similar topics on this site regarding this subject.
I think it would be nice to have a thread where you could post different movies you have watched and enjoyed, that takes upon some specific philosophical subject(s).
I can begin with one example:
The Seventh Seal, by Ingmar Bergman;
Philosophical issues: Religious philosophy.
It's set in Sweden during the plague in the 14th century. It's about a knights search for answers regarding life and death and the existence of God, during a dark era in human history. It highlights some of religions shortcomings in a great way.
A lot of you have probably seen this film already, but if you would be so kind to post any films you find relevant from a philosophical point of view, and you believe is really worth seeing, that would be great!
Methinks one of the most atheistic films is "The Song of Bernadette," starring Vincent Price.
I found it in English. Thank you, Vojos.
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I am not sure how you connected Dogma from a satire displaying the folly of the aggression between world religions into a serious piece of propaganda (particularly since there is a series of disclaimers at the beginning of the film saying otherwise). Moreover you have somehow also connected it heavily to racism, which is remarkable since the movie makes several points against racism particularly relating to religion.Supine wrote:I really liked the movie Matrix. My understanding is the film was based on Buddhist metaphysics. So far as I can tell it did an excellent job presenting that area and tradition of thought.
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About as excellent as the American classic A birth of a nation. But I'll give it its due as a triumphant effort at propaganda. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9UPOkIpR0A But I like how bigotry and caricature pose as high minded philosophizing on film. You might as well put that moronic and bigoted film Stigmata up there too.
From a stand point of sociology a "group" is several people that know each other while the sociological locution of "category" demotes people that share a common characteristic. Examples of a category of people would be: Whites, blacks, women, homosexuals, Muslims, Catholics, Republicans...
I'm mulatto racially but ethnically Black-American. I also fall under the categories of American and Catholic and male. Of the latter three American and male have probably proved the most violent over the last century. But more importantly between whites and Catholicism (a religion) arguably whites have been the most violent, territorial, and the ones that established racial caste systems across the earth. Ought the Nation of Islam (a neo-Islamic Black-American organization and religion) caricature white people? Well... they do. And they take their bigoted views of whites to be very intellectual and solid truth.
I realize that most of the films listed in this thread regard metaphysics, and in that regard are quite complex and interesting (very highbrow at times). However for all that they are also largely useless as they have no application in the real world. I enjoy depth as much as the next person; however a great lesson comes not from its complexity but from its meaning and value.
Dogma is self professed as a work of fiction and silly but has a philosophical point which is actually quite relevant in a world filled with tens of thousands of people actually killing each other over religious disagreement. If we are going to rely on fiction for our philosophical entertainment than I fail to see how the Matrix (fictional, entertaining, and irrelevant) is vastly superior to Dogma (fictional, entertaining, and relevant).
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