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What were some movies you had to look up explanations of after watching? (leminal.space)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Beau is Afraid was the last one I recall. I think it was mostly the latter half of the movie where I started to get a bit confused and needed the ending explained to me.

What movies made you look up some kind of explanation afterwards? I feel like I have done it several times in the past for more surreal movies but can't think of any other examples.

It can also be a TV show.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The is this real or a dream idea was a major theme in many of Phillip K Dick's works. Considering he wrote many of his novels and short stories while off his face on amphetamines and a cocktail of other drugs i guess it should not be much of a surprise.

I wonder if that is a reason so many of his works have been adapted for the screen. Eg:

A Scanner Darkly

Blade Runner

Total Recall

Minority Report

The Adjustment Bureau

Paycheck

Screamers

Impostor

The Crystal Crypt

Next

[–] CitizenKong 2 points 10 months ago

A Scanner Darkly, which is about someone losing himself to psychodelic drugs was very much autobiographical.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Paycheck

The time travel thing with Ben Affleck was written by the same guy as Blade Runner and Total Recall? Whoa.

I guess I'll also have to see Imposter and The Crystal Crypt; they're the only two on that list I've not seen or even heard of before now, but everything else was pretty cool.