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?? My Top 4 Movies ??

Today I'm going to talk a bit about some of my favorite movies. Yup - some. There are actually more than 4, but this "list" is based on what I've picked on my Letterboxd page. If you'd like to join this movie / miniseries social network and add me there, be my guest. So let's begin...

The Pianist

MUSIC WAS HIS PASSION. SURVIVAL WAS HIS MASTERPIECE.
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This film is one of the, if not the first film that actually made my guts turn and twist. It was so unsettling, but not in a way you had to turn your head away. Every moment, the story is presented in a way that compels you to continue watching, expecting that maybe the turn of events will be at least slightly positive.

The story is about a Polish pianist, W?adys?aw Szpilman, who is of Jewish descent, and from his perspective we are viewing the events of the Nazi occupation unfolding. We see him go through the hardships of evading the oppressors, struggling to find food, and even stumbling upon one German captain who asks him to play something for him. Ultimately, Szpilman survives Holocaust, but this film can serve as a very mild picture of how it all looked like. It is not even close to what it actually looked like and what horrible deeds were done during the Holocaust, but at least you get a sense of the gut-wrenching feeling that was multiplied by 1000 in those that actually endured it. In the end - we see him continue his piano playing career, and as I have my own love for the piano, and as I'm a self taught pianist and a very emotional person, this film has a special place in my heart.

Inception

YOUR MIND IS THE SCENE OF THE CRIME.
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As soon as Interstellar came out, I was thinking of putting it here, instead of Inception. But alas - the choice has already been made. I started my movie diary back in... sometime in 2013.

This film masterfully plays with people's ability to have someone's thoughts implanted in our brains, seemingly seamlessly. This thing can be a very elaborate procedure, spanning even days or months, hell - even years. Despite this story being set in a fictional version of our universe, it goes on to prove how many things we're living through may turn out to be just a simple illusion of how our life can be if we continue living this way. The film tells us a story of a protagonist named Cobb, who, with his crew, tries and succeeds in implanting some thoughts and ideas into another person by invading their dream. Whatever they find out in the victim's dream, or tell them, that victim will believe as their own thought when they wake up. And in these dreams - they can shape the dream's reality as they wish, bending the dream's reality as we know it.

But what if we turned this whole story into a weapon to be used to our own advantage? What if we invaded our own thoughts, intercepting them before we make a wrong decision? If we practice enough - we can reach a state where, through these "dreams" we can jump forward in time at any given moment and foresee what the reality could hold for that specific multiverse thread and, if not satisfactory, "wake up" from it and decide not to do something that would cause it. It might sound like a simple "oh, I won't do X which causes Y" scenario, but the power of prediction and the ability to understand what others may do and how they may do it - is one very powerful tool that can be used to quickly bring crucial decisions whenever we would, otherwise recklessly, do a lot of other things in our lives.

Live in your reality, the one you bend and twist to your liking.

Ex Machina

THERE IS NOTHING MORE HUMAN THAN THE WILL TO SURVIVE
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How do you define life? A living being? Is it something that has a heartbeat? Is it something that can feel? Is it the ability to recognize other living beings? The capability to think? Or is it the self-consciousness? The awareness of self?

The truth is definitely more closer to the statement about life being more organic. At least that's a more traditional answer. But as the humans' technology progresses, so does the line defining sentience, getting more and more blurry. Perhaps robots that are self-aware and sentient... perhaps they will become another life form, the non-organic one, synthetic. Does such life form have rights? To what degree?

This is more of a topic for a different post, but this film definitely researches and shows the possible pinnacle of such questions. What could happen if one day, humans created something that could be on-par with them on many different levels. As someone who is deeply into programming, AI and computers, this one is definitely one of my faves.

Annihilation

FEAR WHAT’S INSIDE
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Humans. Again. The almighty creators... and colonizers. Conquerors. They got used to conquering the unknown. We place our hand somewhere - it's ours. But we forget that we ourselves - are someone's unknown too.

What if there were other means of colonialism? What if there was another way to establish dominance? What if there were no traditional weapons? But rather - DNA-tearing and adapting ones?

This film deals with just that. Based on the novel written by Jeff VanderMeer, it shows us what it would be like to encounter an intrusive "organism" on our planet in form of another being, a being that, by simply trying to live the way it knows best - automatically and directly endangers us. It doesn't hunt us down consciously, its coexistence with us threatens our existence. Just like humans threaten other life forms on Earth. We change, the animals change, we evolve - they evolve. Aliens evolves itself - and it evolves the beings on Earth. See the similarity? Good.

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These were some of my favorite films, despite there being many, many other ones. And I could go on to discuss pretty much all of them for hours and hours and hours... but... the batteries won't recharge themselves. And tomorrow... I've got to work.
Drink some coffee, or tea, or... water... stay safe. And stay cool.

Force from the Boris. ?


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