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Sefton10

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Enjoyed this documentary. From 2014 but I’d not seen before.

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ThinPicking

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A couple of great contemporaries here.


View: https://youtu.be/AVyGCxHZ_Ko

Good Time - 2017


View: https://youtu.be/mwgUesU1pz4

Under the Silver Lake - 2018
@JamesGatz the character Sam is your forum persona :tearsofjoy:

Glad someone mentioned Moon. Also if you're good at reading between the lines Passengers from 2016 has a lot to it. There's very little at the surface but disney style sci-fi. But if you can imagine the film, its characters and props a metaphor you can take it somewhere interesting.
 
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ThinPicking said:
A couple of great contemporaries here.


View: https://youtu.be/AVyGCxHZ_Ko

Good Time - 2017


View: https://youtu.be/mwgUesU1pz4

Under the Silver Lake - 2018
@JamesGatz the character Sam is your forum persona :tearsofjoy:

Glad someone mentioned Moon. Also if you're good at reading between the lines Passengers from 2016 has a lot to it. There's very little at the surface but disney style sci-fi. But if you can imagine the film, its characters and props a metaphor you can take it somewhere interesting.
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I definitely see it hahaha

I heard someone say the other day:

"If you want the truth - watch movies/tv shows, if you want fantasy - watch the news"

I'm convinced they tell 100% of the truth scattered around movies/TV shows: another example I came across the other day is this:


View: https://youtu.be/yar3x6tyh3M



View: https://youtu.be/lw7tZ2z9krE
 
ThinPicking

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JamesGatz said:
"If you want the truth - watch movies/tv shows, if you want fantasy - watch the news"

I'm convinced they tell 100% of the truth scattered around movies/TV shows
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Straight up, this is true. Although often mixed with lies or otherwise bizarre ideas. It can be a bit of a minefield.

Did you see The Matrix Resurrections? There's a lot in it, between the lines.
 
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Kill the Messenger (2014) ⭐ 6.9 | Biography, Crime, Drama

1h 52m | R
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Kill the Messenger deserves more recognition on this thread. It's a great movie in all the technical ways (great story, writing, characters, actors), but also based on Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" story, and what happened to him around that time. And all done on a very sparse budget.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW4XO-52ubE



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siTqF2t3S1w



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJkNEtgMulw


It hits on some big issues, like the CIA selling/distributing cocaine into inner cities, and "Asset Forfeiture." Both are objectively true and even verified by government sources. But it's clear they don't want these issues getting mass attention.

(Side Note- While "Forfeiture" may seem unconstitutional in nature, it actually is constitutionally justified. Although it's certainly not what the framers of the Constitution had in mind. There's a document called "The Secret Maritime Jurisdiction Exposed" that can be found on the internet that goes into the details, and Yusef El did videos on the first part of that document).

I think it's pretty clear that some powerful forces (likely inside and outside the government) kept that movie from getting a big release (though it wasn't outright "censored"). It fits in the category of "Oscar bait," and should have been huge during awards season, like Argo and Dallas Buyers Club were, two similar type pictures (based on a true story, scandalous, great actors and such), but Kill The Messenger never got the same type of treatment. Jeremy Renner was one of the top, well known actors in 2014, so it doesn't make sense why a studio that had a gem of a movie featuring Renner at that time wouldn't heavily promote it, especially around the time of Awards Shows. Unless, of course, they were pressured or threatened not to.
 
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Good recommendations here! Here are some of my favorites.

One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Rainman
Groundhog Day
Three Colours Trilogy (French)
Heidi (2015) - she does all the Peaty things!

These two are the slow types that can almost put you to sleep, then haunt you:
-The Island (Russian)
-Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources (French)
 
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Under the Silver Lake (2018) - IMDb

Under the Silver Lake: Directed by David Robert Mitchell. With Andrew Garfield, Wendy Vanden Heuvel, Deborah Geffner, Riley Keough. Sam, a disenchanted young man, finds a mysterious woman swimming in his apartment's pool one night. The next morning, she disappears. Sam sets off across LA to find...
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Michael Clayton
“A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit.”
 
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