Requiem for a dream
2014 Predestination, you can’t really say anything about this film and not spoil it. well perhaps except Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook starring in it
It’s based on Robert Heinleins - All You Zombies. I think.
And I’d say is one of the more faithful adaptations of a short sf story to film. There are a couple of additions, but in general is extremely close.
Beef. What a ride.
Serial Experiments Lain
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The book is better IMO (other than no Portman :-) and one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever read. Highly recommended.
The movie was about cancer? Where did you read that?! The movie is the closest movie approximation of the book Alex Garland could make, considering how dense and intertwined the whole Southern Reach Trilogy is.
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Sorry if my question sounded like an attack 😬 Vandermeer’s writing style deliberately opens his work to different interpretations and it’s rather interesting to see the same happening with this movie adaptation. Another interesting angle I’ve read is environmental: either in a way that Area X is return to nature (purification) or it’s the opposite (our own destruction of the planet) Getting ready to re-read the whole trilogy, will definitely include this guy’s cancer perspective as I am going through to see how it fits.
The Lighthouse. I still don’t know what the hell happened.
Eraserhead
Everything everywhere all at once, but in a good way
EXistenZ - The final question “Are we still in the game?” really summarized the first watch experience. You have no clue what’s going on anymore by that point. Same goes for Total Recall by the way - that movie also has you guessing what’s real and what isn’t throughout 90% of the runtime.
Dark City
Spun
Films super wild, also Brittany Murphy’s last role as well.
Edit: Altered States is another WTF movie.
Black mirror.
Dogville from 2003
2001 A Space Odyssey
Part 3 of that movie be like…
Beau is Afraid is absolutely mental. I had no idea what to expect when we went to see it, and I’m so thankful the cinema was empty so we could audibly talk about wtf was going on throughout. It’s definitely a movie I want people to watch but with the caveat that I’m not recommending it.
I absolutely loved Beau is Afraid, but yeah that last act was a trip. It reminded me of “Men”. The ending of that is just pure WTF.
The penis monster haunts my dreams! The whole movie was a trip and I absolutely loved the insanity of the first act, but the last 30 odd minutes were just mental
