What are your favourite movies about the mind?

Question

What are your favourite movies about the mind?

Answer 1

Hello V :)



I really love Pan's Labyrinth, The Machinist and Scanners.



BQ: Ophelia from Pan's Labyrinth :)

BQ2: Starter for Ten (by David Nichols) is a really good book, it's funny and easy reading. It's set in the 80s and the protagonist is a hapless 19 year old beginning his first year at university, desperately trying to get the girl of his dreams and not be a total geek! It was made into a film starring James McAvoy, the film is good too but the book is a lot better.

TV shows, Summer Heights High or Angry Boys - two very clever mockumentary style comedy shows by Chris Lilley. Genius!

Films - The Elephant Man, Kill List, Run Lola Run, Chicago (you might be surprised!), Gone Baby Gone, Smokin' Aces, The Mist, The Darjeeling Limited



Bonus: This is driving me mad! I've thought of Cabin Fever (no it's not that is it), House of 1000 Corpses? Some of it fits but not all....let me think/research...give me time! :)



P.S got a joke for you -

"my wife said she was leaving me due to my obsession with cowboys. I'm glad really....this town just ain't big enough for the both of us."



edit: Haha! LOVE that joke, that reminded me of a Tim Vine special :) I might have told you this one before but it's one of my favourites........"You invented Tipp-Ex...correct me if I'm wrong." :D many thanks for the extra clue on the horror film, I will continue my research! (although I feel quite flumoxed haha)



edit no.2: Haha, love that! Tim Vine delivers with such hilarity doesn't he :) one of my favourites that he says (because he says it in such a funny manner) is "I went into a chemist the other day, the man behind the counter said "Evening Primose Oil", I said "that's Mr Vine to you!"' haha :) :)

THIS MOVIE IS DRIVING ME MAD! I've had flashes of inspiration, 28 Weeks Later / Species the Awakening but still can't find it!! I'm still researching :) I haven't been doing it all day, but at least a couple of hours. It's fun! I just want to find out and be like.....da daaaa! Thank goodness for Wikipedia anyway!

Answer 2

Requiem for a dream

Answer 3

I loved the movie Inception! And I totally loved the character in it played by Marion Cotillard, because she total mindblasts Leo DiCaprio :) Who I also love, by the by................<3

Answer 4

Hi V,

A Clockwork Orange

Reqieum for a Dream

Mulholland Drive

Black Swan

Donnie Darko

The Shining

American Psycho

Inception

Fight Club

Memento

A Tale of Two Sisters

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Primal Fear

Melancholia



BQ: Alex Delarge, Patrick Bateman or Jack Torrance

BQ2:

Movies:

http://www.imdb.com/list/yrdsh_-3lNw/



TV Shows:

Six Feet Under, Twin Peaks, Veronica Mars, Community, South Park, Summer Heights High (Funniest show ever) or We Can Be Heroes



Albums:

Let England Shake - PJ Harvey

Celebrity Skin - Hole

Doolittle - Pixies

Nevermind - Nirvana

The Wall - Pink Floyd



Books:

Dracula

Animal Farm

1984

Winter's Bone



:)

Answer 5

Memento

Sixth Sense

The Mechanic

Shutter Island

Inception

The Matrix - super cool

Dumb and Dumber

Answer 6

Oh, I just thought "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" was simply brilliant. I also liked "Inception," "Fight Club," and "The Fall."



BQ:

"Eternal Sunshine" - Clementine.

"Inception" - Arthur.

"Fight Club" - Brad Pitt's Tyler. Anyone who dresses like that and urinates in soup is pretty awesome (in the context of the movie only, of course!).

"The Fall" - The Red Bandit.



BQ2: As for movies, try "Lone Star" and "The Spanish Prisoner." You won't be sorry! When it comes to TV, I always recommend "Sports Night," "Six Feet Under," "Treme," and the original UK version of "Shameless." For books, check out "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy To ole.

Answer 7

The Matrix and Dark City are great films (already mentioned).

'Timecrimes' (a Spanish film). Also 'The Pledge' starring Jack Nicholson.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I just LOVE that Emma mentioned Pan's Labyrinth, every movie shes mentioned are my favourites, but I shall not repeat (kinda wish I got to it first). :P



My favourites:

- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

- Jacob's Ladder

- Dark City - I’m not gonna lie —I love The Matrix. But I can’t help but feel Dark City was robbed. Released a year before The Matrix, Dark City is remarkably similar to The Matrix (albeit with a smaller budget). It also taps into that pre-millennium “my life doesn’t feel like real life” frustration that so many other films prodded around the same period. Also! Jennifer Connelly! :)

- Primer

- A Beautiful Mind, another one with Jennifer Connelly in it (maybe she's intrigued with scripts that go fully in depth about the human condition lol). :P Even Little Children, its a bit about the mind but more so about how self-delusional, secretive, dependent, desperate at times, and all fascinating we can be...

- The Game

- Videodrome

- The Prestige (if you interpret 'movies about the mind' as something that makes us ask some pretty lofty questions about the nature of identity and obsession) It's like a 90-minute magic trick planted in the audience's mind. Thanks, Chris Nolan. :P Memento does that too! Ugh and Inception!

- Primal Fear

- The Talented Mr. Ripley



*everything else has already been said in the answers above :)



BA: Ugh I can't pick! I love Edward Norton's character in Primal Fear! It just blew my mind! Its just at the top of my list when it comes to "mindfcuk movies". One of those handful of movies that successful makes you feel completely manipulated as the viewer. All thanks to Norton. Also, I really really love The Talented Mr. Ripley as well, Matt Damon's character completely floored me, he outstandingly conveys his character's slide from innocent enthusiasm into cold calculation and I still to this day can't figure out if I hate him or love him.



BA2: Anything I mentioned in my BA and MA that you haven't seen (I highly recommend), although fair warning (Primer, Jacob's Ladder and Videodrome isn't everyone's cup of tea). Everything else, you have to like or there's something wrong with you. Lol j/k. TV shows: Breaking Bad, GAME OF THRONES, Dexter; Books: A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin; Albums: Pretty much obsessed with anything by The Black Keys, Eddie Vedder/Pearl Jam and Arctic Monkeys right now.



Bonus Guess the movie: I couldn't for the life of me wrap my head around which movie this one might be from.



Great question though! Through and through. :)



EDIT: Your answer to my question reminded me to check out your edit haha. Yess! Thank you for the clues, some nifty Googling and changing the words around + looking at like a bajillion Horror titles and their release dates got me to the movie: 'Big Bad Wolf' <--- man I hope that's it haha. :P I'm glad you liked Arctic Monkeys btw! My favourite tracks are Dance Little Liar and Crying Lightning. Love me a good Brit band/artist :) :) Deff check Game of Thrones out. It might take a while to get into cause there's a lot of different plotlines but it'll be worth it trust me.