5 Movies Which Leave You A Different Person Afterwards.
These aren’t movies that are going to make you cry, or make you say “man, that was amazing!” to your friends. No — here are five movies that will literally change your life, because they will change the way you look at art, at people, at power — at everything.
It’s hard to find a better list of films that are so unbelievably watchable, and yet say more about all those topics listed above. These movies will literally change your life.
#5: Riefenstahl’s Disturbing Masterpiece, Triumph of the Will.
If you want to understand war films, and films that glorify things (be it anything — war, a country, a person), this is the film to have in your repertoire when you need to think about it. Not because the subject of the film is wonderful or because Riefenstahl is a genius, but because of what this movie says about spectacle.
#4: De Sica’s Genius on Display in Bicycle Thieves.
Ultra-simple — a man gets a bike, and a job, when Rome is very poor after the second world war. He then loses the bike, and tries to steal another one so he can keep the job. There isn’t much else to the plot, but it contains a whole world.
#3: Polanski Figures Out Corruption in Chinatown.
Polanski, despite the mess he created for himself before leaving America, made what is undoubtedly one of the best American films of all time. This might just be one of those movies that says more about Hollywood than any other, which is important if you ever think about what the movies ‘mean’ to us.
#2: Hitchcock Never Got Better Than Vertigo.
When people talk about deep novels with layers of meaning that you can return to again and again, this is the film equivalent of those. You can watch this for fun, for James Stewart, for San Francisco, or for Hitchcock’s complete dismantling of how he directs films, treats women, and sees the world.
#1: Coppola’s Godfather Hits Heights Most Films Dream About.
The fact that this movie is about the mafia is really just besides the point — there is no other movie that explains power, family, and the dark side of the American dream so well, while also happening to be a compulsively entertaining piece of cinema.
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