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Not a movie but a game. Crusader Kings 2 you can go from a count desperately trying to hang on to your little castle and then suddenly, and because of decisions you made so long ago you don't even remember making it, be in control of a whole empire. Helps me remember things will usually work themselves out (90% of the time) so long as you keep trying
Probably Baraka (watch it on YouTube [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6MLQgoepXY)). It's a beautiful snapshot of humanity, the world we live in and our place in it. Certainly helped me open my mind to other ways of being.
Not sure I'd peg as 'life changing' per se, but Celine Song's *Past Lives* moved me deeply. It's a pretty poignant exploration of wistfulness and longing, and looks at themes of identity within emigration, alternate possibilities, and the grief in choosing to leave a past-life behind. It makes a personal account seem quite universal. It's a very sophisticated and raw exploration of connection, loss, re-connection, unknowns, opportunities, and abandonment. And basically, what it means to be human and to reflect on your life path. I highly recommend
I came here to say the exact same thing. *Past Lives* is so candid that it doesn’t even feel like it’s a movie, but instead a memory torn right from humanity’s shared existence
Funnily enough Inside Out was really good at visualizing what goes on in the mind with emotions, Inside Out 2 does a great job with depicting more complex emotions like Anxiety (I feel).
Soul validated my ability to appreciate life and be grateful for what I do have (I feel like a lot of people don’t know how to do that very well, and that’s a pretty life changing thing to do).
But in terms of non-animated movies, I would say I really identified with Good Will Hunting, I feel like I’ve 100% been in his emotional position of feeling expected to be somewhere and not knowing where to go/settling just because I could. Dead Poets Society taught me how to seize the day (of course).
Rocky is most definitely a series about overcoming, and if you want something to really get you off your ass, 1,2,4,6 as well as creed 1&2 all have a great way of doing that (or getting you to the point of wanting to go to gym at the very least).
There’s so many more, I can talk movies all day long lol. But I’ll just leave it there for now as my mind is now going blank
Not a movie but a short ish series. Violet Evergarden. It’s about Violet wanting to understand what “I love you” means while writing for people who don’t know how. It’s a fictional post WW1-2 setting. Music and art style is absolutely gorgeous. The story is slow and grating at first, then it is both beautiful and immensely painful. If you are emotional prepare to cry. I fell in love with it because it is the only story that makes me feel anything. That is because the story was in fact engineered by a psychiatrist.
As weird as it may sound, but Coco made me think about life after death and if people are really dead so long as they are remembered by someone somewhere. It gave me a new fear of being forgotten, only to be mentioned in passing when a future family member does genealogy like I do now. That is if my family line doesn't end and cease to exist all together. I don't have a solution to the dilemma it poses as a question.
Wonka, had a prolific impact on me, but I can't articulate it into words or describe it. When I watch Wonka its like... I feel something touch my soul. Every time I think about the movie it makes me want to cry and after the movie I did cry for 30 minutes straight. I don't know why.
I want(ed) to die - by jreg, its not a movie but damn everytime I watch that video its almost scary how much I can relate. Helps me when Im down and feel alone
Also adding **"The Matrix"** here, it's a very popular movie so i don't think i need to summarize it; I keep coming back to it from time to time just to remind myself that everything's an illusion. We might not be living in an actual simulation but we created our own silly rules and social norms and we live our lives following them on auto pilot, never questioning why we do the things we do, why we stress about things that aren't real, consuming everything we're fed and glued to our silly little screens non-stop, being preyed upon by companies of all sorts..
Up until one day, we wake up and we realize everyone's plugged in, everyone's being fed the same rules and the same bs, everyone's playing the same game without realizing it.. and once you realize this, you have the power and the freedom to make a choice. You can create your own life and make your own decisions, pick what's good for you.. or you can stay plugged in and continue to follow the same meaningless path everyone else is following, keep on worrying about things we made up, keep on putting yourself down because of metrics we created, keep on conforming to the norm and achieving all the expected milestones.
This is what the movie inspires me to think about, might not be the same for everyone, but i look at people living life on auto pilot, never questioning anything, doing things "just because", not developing critical thinking and i can't help but think of them as NPC living in the matrix. I immediately change the way we interact.
Kung-fu Panda 3
The part when Po als himself, who am I and he comes up with the answer that he is kind of all the things he has thought he was.
It was really well made too because he was realigning the lines in the Thai Chi manner and at the end the lines formed a dragon
Even tho I see things didn't now regarding the ego through Dr K it kinda helped me realize that I'm not just one thing. I don't have to settle for one personality trait, but rather am more than just one idea of myself
A good few. But I’ve always deeply loved the LOTR trilogy and Aragorn’s character, way of being, and now, I realise, excellent portrayal of __real__ masculinity. **Edit to say:** And ever since I was a child, it’s strongly shaped my moral understanding, how to approach friends who are struggling, facing challenges with courage and so on.
I remember doing a character quiz online as a kid with my friends. I got Legolas and others got Aragorn. We would *always* trade. And we would *both* be very happy. Though I was always confused why anyone would want to trade being Aragorn for Legolas. Substance for style I guess…
I moved to a new city recently, and the stars aligned serendipitously a couple of weeks ago and I got to see Viggo at a Q&A of his new film. I absolutely shouldn’t have got that ticket, but I did. And it was awesome.
Great question btw! Love reading the replies.
Legolas was great - my favorite LOTR character when I was a kid! It wasn't really style that captivated me, but his ease of flowing with nature. Effortless action, like Wu Wei. Deep attunement between mind and body.
Cool to hear what Aragorn meant to you.
i’m sure i won’t be alone saying:
Beautiful Boy
it centers around themes of addiction and family mostly. i watched it while a was going through a tough time with my dad last year. he coming down hard on me and my sister with punishments for vaping including transferring schools (and country), being grounded, no more allowance, daily threats and shouting and just so much micromanaging.
watching another person going through the same thing in a different perspective, seeing the love that my dad was having trouble communicating, and seeing different ways my relationship with my dad could evolve was eye opening. it was so incredibly validating even though the scale of my addiction was smaller and the scale of my punishments were larger. the dad in this film said a lot of things i wish my dad would.
it gave me a lot more empathy and forgiveness for the shit that i put my dad through. since i’ve started doing that, being calmer and level headed with everyone around me has been much easier. it was a lot of other things that factored into my little personality change but i really think this movie gave me a bit of healing and the push i needed.
needless to say: highly recommend.
Jerry Maguire made me realize it was time for a divorce. Which is apparently not all the unusual. I think I read where Cameron Crowe once said that a lot of people told him that movie changed their life. The men were usually saying it inspired them to ask their wives to marry them. The women usually said it inspired them to finally get divorced
The Secret Life Of Bees was really moving for me. Watched it after reading the novel my sophomore year in high school. Even though I’m not religious, I love the message of God being inside you, and that you should learn to love yourself and live a life full of love.
**"Hector and the search for happiness"** is one that comes to mind. It's about a psychiatrist that feels like he's not fully helping his patients and goes on a journey across the world to find out what people consider happiness. We get to see the world and happiness from so many different perspectives, it's a really wholesome, emotive and beautiful movie.
Definitely marking this down for sometime in the future. This sounds like the opposite end of the spectrum at least in concept to my favorite show being about understanding emotions and love and making sure you express them to those you care about even if it’s through a letter. It’s an anime BTW. Violet Evergarden.
Oh, I have that anime on my "to-watch" list, seems interesting!
This movie is more like a feel-good type of movie, but i always enjoyed watching or reading about other people's lives and experiences. Sometimes we're so focused on our small little worlds, we forget about the big picture.. and *perspective is often the key to happiness.*
It's based on a book written by a psychiatrist btw! I've yet to read it, but the movie stars Simon Pegg, and he's just fantastic.
*Probably the old*
*Indiana Jones movies*
*And Lord of the Rings!*
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A movie with a positive impact for me is My neighbour Totoro. For a kids & family animated movie it manages to capture life in an oddly realistic yet very optimistic way. Whenever I rewatch it, it brings back the feeling of hope and loving life, because life is beautiful. It's obvious that it was made by someone who loves life and it reflects in every single shot.
If anyone is interested to see a therapist's and a movie director's point of view you can check the amazing reaction an analysis by Cinema Therapy:
https://youtu.be/16YcWCbPoWs?si=txZCK0E87pfQ_6lq
Ps. Great YouTube channel if you are searching for good movies or good analysis to bad movies :)
Inside Out 2
The first movie had been literally been the very groundworks for my emotional management skills. The very reason I love learning so much to understand myself and how to manage my emotion.
When the second movie came around, I was, at that time, going through a tough moment in my life regarding my self-worth. I can't believe that after nearly a full decade, I'm revisiting the very concept I had based my emotional framework from. The movie was just so amazing but before that actually ,on the same day, I had been listening alot to Dr. K videos understanding what I was going through.
That Saturday night after finishing Inside Out 2 in theatres, everything felt like it just came together for me in the end. I KNEW right there and then just what I had to do to deal with the hardship I was going through at that time.
I was able to forgive myself.
For too long I had been too hard on myself for too long and that moving forward, letting go of the very high expectations I imposed on myself that I never was going to be able to reach in the first place.
Something REALLY just sparked again in me that same weekend. I was able to, for once in a long time, feel pride and happiness in the small victories that I had. Waking up in the morning all by myself, or reading a book in peace or even just having an evening walk. I was able to do the things that I want, without the burden of expectations. Most importantly, I was able to accept who I am. Not just the perception of others upon me who think I am a man without flaws, but also the bumbling, struggling but optimistic me thats just trying his best to do the bare minimum everyday. And that every part of me makes me who I am, not just my strengths but my flaws too.
I couldn't believe just how much of a profound impact it had on me to truly look after and take care of myself.
And I can't believe just how much Inside Out 2 had resonated with me.
Gattaca(1997) — watched this in high school biology and I had zero expectations for it, but loved the message. not sure if it changed my life, but i think about the themes from time to time when I’m going through hard times. Thank you Ms. Reutebach!!
A Silent Voice.
I cannot recommend this enough.
I've struggled with being able to feel or cry for a long time after a very harsh breakup. And this movie made me cry for the characters, for me, out of sadness and out of joy, all on this very slow yet very intense rollercoaster of emotions.
It's simply beautiful. I urge anyone reading this - If you haven't watched it yet, please do. Give it a chance.
The House That Jack Built depicted a very horrific vision of hell that stuck with me when I was planning on offing myself, highly incentivised me to not end up going through with it among other things.
I don't know if an anime is counted as movie but The classroom of the elite is my inspiration as the protagonist is a representation of stoicism even when he stumbled into tense situation.
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Not a movie but a game. Crusader Kings 2 you can go from a count desperately trying to hang on to your little castle and then suddenly, and because of decisions you made so long ago you don't even remember making it, be in control of a whole empire. Helps me remember things will usually work themselves out (90% of the time) so long as you keep trying
Probably Baraka (watch it on YouTube [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6MLQgoepXY)). It's a beautiful snapshot of humanity, the world we live in and our place in it. Certainly helped me open my mind to other ways of being.
Looks fascinating will give it a go
Everything everywhere all at once It hits so hard
*2001: A Space Odyssey* taught me curiosity and limitless possibilities. First saw it around the age of 10, I will never forget it.
Not sure I'd peg as 'life changing' per se, but Celine Song's *Past Lives* moved me deeply. It's a pretty poignant exploration of wistfulness and longing, and looks at themes of identity within emigration, alternate possibilities, and the grief in choosing to leave a past-life behind. It makes a personal account seem quite universal. It's a very sophisticated and raw exploration of connection, loss, re-connection, unknowns, opportunities, and abandonment. And basically, what it means to be human and to reflect on your life path. I highly recommend
I came here to say the exact same thing. *Past Lives* is so candid that it doesn’t even feel like it’s a movie, but instead a memory torn right from humanity’s shared existence
Funnily enough Inside Out was really good at visualizing what goes on in the mind with emotions, Inside Out 2 does a great job with depicting more complex emotions like Anxiety (I feel). Soul validated my ability to appreciate life and be grateful for what I do have (I feel like a lot of people don’t know how to do that very well, and that’s a pretty life changing thing to do). But in terms of non-animated movies, I would say I really identified with Good Will Hunting, I feel like I’ve 100% been in his emotional position of feeling expected to be somewhere and not knowing where to go/settling just because I could. Dead Poets Society taught me how to seize the day (of course). Rocky is most definitely a series about overcoming, and if you want something to really get you off your ass, 1,2,4,6 as well as creed 1&2 all have a great way of doing that (or getting you to the point of wanting to go to gym at the very least). There’s so many more, I can talk movies all day long lol. But I’ll just leave it there for now as my mind is now going blank
Cars (2006), Ice age, Shrek and many ps2 games
Not a movie but a short ish series. Violet Evergarden. It’s about Violet wanting to understand what “I love you” means while writing for people who don’t know how. It’s a fictional post WW1-2 setting. Music and art style is absolutely gorgeous. The story is slow and grating at first, then it is both beautiful and immensely painful. If you are emotional prepare to cry. I fell in love with it because it is the only story that makes me feel anything. That is because the story was in fact engineered by a psychiatrist.
Inside Out, it helped me be able to cry again after 10 years
As weird as it may sound, but Coco made me think about life after death and if people are really dead so long as they are remembered by someone somewhere. It gave me a new fear of being forgotten, only to be mentioned in passing when a future family member does genealogy like I do now. That is if my family line doesn't end and cease to exist all together. I don't have a solution to the dilemma it poses as a question. Wonka, had a prolific impact on me, but I can't articulate it into words or describe it. When I watch Wonka its like... I feel something touch my soul. Every time I think about the movie it makes me want to cry and after the movie I did cry for 30 minutes straight. I don't know why.
I want(ed) to die - by jreg, its not a movie but damn everytime I watch that video its almost scary how much I can relate. Helps me when Im down and feel alone
Castaway. It showed how the only thing in life that truly matters is the people you love.
[Peaceful Warrior](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gegNMYvY_yg)
Also adding **"The Matrix"** here, it's a very popular movie so i don't think i need to summarize it; I keep coming back to it from time to time just to remind myself that everything's an illusion. We might not be living in an actual simulation but we created our own silly rules and social norms and we live our lives following them on auto pilot, never questioning why we do the things we do, why we stress about things that aren't real, consuming everything we're fed and glued to our silly little screens non-stop, being preyed upon by companies of all sorts.. Up until one day, we wake up and we realize everyone's plugged in, everyone's being fed the same rules and the same bs, everyone's playing the same game without realizing it.. and once you realize this, you have the power and the freedom to make a choice. You can create your own life and make your own decisions, pick what's good for you.. or you can stay plugged in and continue to follow the same meaningless path everyone else is following, keep on worrying about things we made up, keep on putting yourself down because of metrics we created, keep on conforming to the norm and achieving all the expected milestones. This is what the movie inspires me to think about, might not be the same for everyone, but i look at people living life on auto pilot, never questioning anything, doing things "just because", not developing critical thinking and i can't help but think of them as NPC living in the matrix. I immediately change the way we interact.
Kung-fu Panda 3 The part when Po als himself, who am I and he comes up with the answer that he is kind of all the things he has thought he was. It was really well made too because he was realigning the lines in the Thai Chi manner and at the end the lines formed a dragon Even tho I see things didn't now regarding the ego through Dr K it kinda helped me realize that I'm not just one thing. I don't have to settle for one personality trait, but rather am more than just one idea of myself
Into The Wild It's Such a Beautiful Day (full movie, all three parts) The Tree of Life Detachment
A good few. But I’ve always deeply loved the LOTR trilogy and Aragorn’s character, way of being, and now, I realise, excellent portrayal of __real__ masculinity. **Edit to say:** And ever since I was a child, it’s strongly shaped my moral understanding, how to approach friends who are struggling, facing challenges with courage and so on. I remember doing a character quiz online as a kid with my friends. I got Legolas and others got Aragorn. We would *always* trade. And we would *both* be very happy. Though I was always confused why anyone would want to trade being Aragorn for Legolas. Substance for style I guess… I moved to a new city recently, and the stars aligned serendipitously a couple of weeks ago and I got to see Viggo at a Q&A of his new film. I absolutely shouldn’t have got that ticket, but I did. And it was awesome. Great question btw! Love reading the replies.
Legolas was great - my favorite LOTR character when I was a kid! It wasn't really style that captivated me, but his ease of flowing with nature. Effortless action, like Wu Wei. Deep attunement between mind and body. Cool to hear what Aragorn meant to you.
Mmm that’s a perspective of Legolas I’ve never heard anyone tap into. I love that!
i’m sure i won’t be alone saying: Beautiful Boy it centers around themes of addiction and family mostly. i watched it while a was going through a tough time with my dad last year. he coming down hard on me and my sister with punishments for vaping including transferring schools (and country), being grounded, no more allowance, daily threats and shouting and just so much micromanaging. watching another person going through the same thing in a different perspective, seeing the love that my dad was having trouble communicating, and seeing different ways my relationship with my dad could evolve was eye opening. it was so incredibly validating even though the scale of my addiction was smaller and the scale of my punishments were larger. the dad in this film said a lot of things i wish my dad would. it gave me a lot more empathy and forgiveness for the shit that i put my dad through. since i’ve started doing that, being calmer and level headed with everyone around me has been much easier. it was a lot of other things that factored into my little personality change but i really think this movie gave me a bit of healing and the push i needed. needless to say: highly recommend.
A documentary “Act of Killing” by Joshua Oppenheimer and “Westworld” season 1
Jerry Maguire made me realize it was time for a divorce. Which is apparently not all the unusual. I think I read where Cameron Crowe once said that a lot of people told him that movie changed their life. The men were usually saying it inspired them to ask their wives to marry them. The women usually said it inspired them to finally get divorced
The Secret Life Of Bees was really moving for me. Watched it after reading the novel my sophomore year in high school. Even though I’m not religious, I love the message of God being inside you, and that you should learn to love yourself and live a life full of love.
**"Hector and the search for happiness"** is one that comes to mind. It's about a psychiatrist that feels like he's not fully helping his patients and goes on a journey across the world to find out what people consider happiness. We get to see the world and happiness from so many different perspectives, it's a really wholesome, emotive and beautiful movie.
Definitely marking this down for sometime in the future. This sounds like the opposite end of the spectrum at least in concept to my favorite show being about understanding emotions and love and making sure you express them to those you care about even if it’s through a letter. It’s an anime BTW. Violet Evergarden.
Oh, I have that anime on my "to-watch" list, seems interesting! This movie is more like a feel-good type of movie, but i always enjoyed watching or reading about other people's lives and experiences. Sometimes we're so focused on our small little worlds, we forget about the big picture.. and *perspective is often the key to happiness.* It's based on a book written by a psychiatrist btw! I've yet to read it, but the movie stars Simon Pegg, and he's just fantastic.
Amazing one, watched it a couple of times.
Probably the old Indiana Jones movies and Lord of the Rings!
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A movie with a positive impact for me is My neighbour Totoro. For a kids & family animated movie it manages to capture life in an oddly realistic yet very optimistic way. Whenever I rewatch it, it brings back the feeling of hope and loving life, because life is beautiful. It's obvious that it was made by someone who loves life and it reflects in every single shot. If anyone is interested to see a therapist's and a movie director's point of view you can check the amazing reaction an analysis by Cinema Therapy: https://youtu.be/16YcWCbPoWs?si=txZCK0E87pfQ_6lq Ps. Great YouTube channel if you are searching for good movies or good analysis to bad movies :)
"Mulan" I feel that I'd be the only one mentioning this movie 😁😁
Spongebob
Loki S1 S2. It reaffirmed I need to become the person I was meant to become and to fulfill my purpose
Interstate 60. Incredibly underrated movie that deserved so much more love
Inside Out 2 The first movie had been literally been the very groundworks for my emotional management skills. The very reason I love learning so much to understand myself and how to manage my emotion. When the second movie came around, I was, at that time, going through a tough moment in my life regarding my self-worth. I can't believe that after nearly a full decade, I'm revisiting the very concept I had based my emotional framework from. The movie was just so amazing but before that actually ,on the same day, I had been listening alot to Dr. K videos understanding what I was going through. That Saturday night after finishing Inside Out 2 in theatres, everything felt like it just came together for me in the end. I KNEW right there and then just what I had to do to deal with the hardship I was going through at that time. I was able to forgive myself. For too long I had been too hard on myself for too long and that moving forward, letting go of the very high expectations I imposed on myself that I never was going to be able to reach in the first place. Something REALLY just sparked again in me that same weekend. I was able to, for once in a long time, feel pride and happiness in the small victories that I had. Waking up in the morning all by myself, or reading a book in peace or even just having an evening walk. I was able to do the things that I want, without the burden of expectations. Most importantly, I was able to accept who I am. Not just the perception of others upon me who think I am a man without flaws, but also the bumbling, struggling but optimistic me thats just trying his best to do the bare minimum everyday. And that every part of me makes me who I am, not just my strengths but my flaws too. I couldn't believe just how much of a profound impact it had on me to truly look after and take care of myself. And I can't believe just how much Inside Out 2 had resonated with me.
Turning red
Gattaca(1997) — watched this in high school biology and I had zero expectations for it, but loved the message. not sure if it changed my life, but i think about the themes from time to time when I’m going through hard times. Thank you Ms. Reutebach!!
A Silent Voice. I cannot recommend this enough. I've struggled with being able to feel or cry for a long time after a very harsh breakup. And this movie made me cry for the characters, for me, out of sadness and out of joy, all on this very slow yet very intense rollercoaster of emotions. It's simply beautiful. I urge anyone reading this - If you haven't watched it yet, please do. Give it a chance.
The House That Jack Built depicted a very horrific vision of hell that stuck with me when I was planning on offing myself, highly incentivised me to not end up going through with it among other things.
I don't know if an anime is counted as movie but The classroom of the elite is my inspiration as the protagonist is a representation of stoicism even when he stumbled into tense situation.