5 Movies That Shift Your Perspective in a Fundamental Way.
What exactly does it mean when you stumble upon a movie that changes your life? One critic defined it as the ultimate in perspective shift, something that really comes along and shakes the foundations of how you view the world.
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#5: Triumph of the Will.
All film is spectacle, it has been said, and there was no larger and more grotesque spectacle than Hitler and his Nazi party. This film celebrates them with movie techniques that were pioneering in its day, and since it is such a celebration of his party, it is so ultimately disturbing that it alters how you see ‘tribute’ films forever.
#4: Neo-Realism At Its Best — Bicycle Thieves.
If you want a little bit of proof that a simplistic story with the vaguest of outlines — man gets bike and job, bike is stolen, man loses job and steals another bike — can say universal things about humanity and sadness, then this is your film.
#3: 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.
A wonderful thriller that also happens to be all about falling in love, idealizing women (or men), wanting other people to conform to our expectations, and an examination of the director’s role in shaping how a movie is made. No other film is so good both on its surface and in its multiple layers of meaning at the same time.
#1: The Godfather.
It doesn’t matter that this film is about the mafia — it’s actually about family, power, children, America, crime, and politics. It’s also told so unbelievably well that sometimes you literally cannot believe it doesn’t have a bad moment. Which it doesn’t. The ultimate example of film’s completely unique cultural position.
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