List 3 Movies and I'll Read Your Fortune

Neverending Story
Absolute Darling
Wanted

"Goodfellas"
"The Usual Suspects"
"The Frozen Flower"

I am heart-broken and sleep-deprived. Fair warning as my readings may be infected by melancholy.

Red Honja wrote: PeeWee's Big Adventure
Nightmare Before Christmas
V for Vendetta

Two Tim Burtons and the most important subversive blockbuster of the last decade. Childhood idealism battered by the brutality of adult disfunction.

Well, I'm going to take a wild stab and say something to you based also on your gallery photos: you're fierce. Ninja razor claws like V or Edward Scissorhands. But that fierceness protects something innocent and vulnerable, like a mother grizzly protecting her cub.

Inside, you'd like to make things right. See people treat each other fairly, because you know what it is like to be treated otherwise. The language of dreams makes sense to you, things all out of proportion, because maybe you no longer believe in justice--justice by grownups and institutions--but you prefer poetic justice anyway where we might die and be resurrected from a kiss, or blow up the whole internet to make a clean start.

Your anger is not a mask like V's, it is a vital part of you, just like the inextinguishable childish spirit you share with Pee Wee. In some ways, Pee Wee's world is darker than V's because the dangers and cruelties are hidden as part of life and growing up, and I think you would like to unmask the savage damage that we do those around just by being careless or ignorant. I know about that hurt, too.

Keep your warrior spirit. And your poetic innocence. Maybe consider that you don't need to only be an agent of change for the good--you can also be an example. Be proud of your scars. Be bold in your empathy. You are not alone.

All the best,
lonewolf

Vesna wrote: let's try this

In the Realm of the Senses
Begotten
Girl, Interrupted

could i make it more obvious to you?

The Devil out there is nothing compared to the Devil within.

My inner Mephistopheles warns me not to try to psychoanalyze a psych major, especially one with such dark visions of subjugation and megalomania. It's not fair for me to conjecture about your tastes, since I know your angels and your demons well.

Instead, I offer you this video as a counter argument to dark pessimism--the greatest science-fiction film ever made. I posit Chris Marker's profound insistence on the power of a fleeting moment of connection to transcend the gravitational pull of doom and destiny. We are fated for oblivion, yes, but for a moment we lived... and that moment was luminous.

vimeo.com/138951063

*can somebody help teach me how to embed a video from Vimeo? Can't seem to get it to work.

Benny wrote:

romehassler wrote:

• Now you see me
• Lucy
• The Notebook

You want to have sex with good looking criminal because now you see me ?

Nice try Benny~

the big lebowski
pulp fiction
once upon a time in america

romehassler wrote:

• Now you see me
• Lucy
• The Notebook

Hey romehassler,

I didn't see Now You See Me. Could you suggest another movie that's important to you or maybe say a little bit about why NYSM affected you?

Rose Mary wrote: Irreversible
Happy together
Melancholia

And...
Histoire d'O
A streetcar named desire
In the realm of the senses

Rose, would you still like me to do this?

* Interstellar
* The Pianist
* Fight Club