you guys should check out Dark City (has a platonic reality isn't really real thing going on) Moon (has a memory/identity/AI thing going on) Source Code (has a 'its just numbers being computed' thing going on)
Tarkovsky's Solaris and Stalker are also pretty stunning if you can handle 10 minute shots of dripping water and general Russian misery etc. happy viewing! :) From: marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Films I think people on this forum might like Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 12:25:00 +0100 On 04 Feb 2014, at 08:33, LizR wrote:My son (15) has been trying to get us to watch Incaption for a while. Once we get time... After "the prestige", that was rather disappointing, for me. My favorite movie is "the thirteenth floor", or the corresponding novel "SIMULACRON III" (Daniel Galouze). According to some people, MATRIX is full of "allusion" to "conscience & mécanisme" but I can't see it without falling asleep. I still don't know if it is comp-correct, like simulacron III is. Boring and not quite sexy, but I would have love it, I guess, if I was 12 years old. Bruno On 4 February 2014 20:19, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: Some more I can add that I enjoyed: Adjustment Bureau Inception Open Your Eyes (Spanish language, with subtitles). These are mainly virtual reality type movies. I'm going to add some of the others mentioned to my DVD service queue. Cheers On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 03:45:47PM -0600, Jason Resch wrote: > Liz, > > Great recommendations, and excellent topic idea. > > The Prestige is the movie that got me interested in these topics and led me > to this list. Also, for US viewers, Chronochrimes goes by "Timecrimes" and > is available under netflix under that title. I found it to be the first > realistic portrayal of single-universe time travel in any movie I have seen. > > Somewhat off-topic being a TV series, but the recently reimagined > "Battlestar Galactica" probes many of the questions of machine vs. human > consciousness. I recommend it to Craig. > > Jason > > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:14 AM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > One I've mentioned ad nauseum - "Memento". > > > > There is also "The Prestige", which I would definitely recommend. > > > > To avoid spoilers, I won't go into detail about why these films might > > appeal, but they both address issues mentioned on this list (at least > > tangentially, and in a fictional manner). > > > > I might also mention "Chronocrimes" for its portrayal of a block univese. > > > > Sadly no one seems to have filmed "October the First is Too Late" although > > the 10-episode epic "Doctor Who" story "The War Games" comes close in some > > respects. In fact I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Who story was > > inspired by Hoyle's novel, which I think appeared about 3 years beforehand > > if I remember correctly. 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