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FRICKIN    F A B U L O U S     Natural Mystic.  totally WONDERFUL.   WOW.  loved it exceedingly.  great find/work/post.

I get a little tired of the same old stuff cranked out of Hollywood these days so I would say I've developed a real appreciation for more obscure indys if anything. I Netflixed Metropolis this past week. This is a real gem. This is Fritz Lang's silent film masterpiece from 1927. This film has been completely remastered  and the score has been remastered as well. As you watch this film it's shocking how beautifully it's done. It depicts a society in 2026 where workers have been driven underground to slave away while the elitist class live in a highly modern utopian world.This film absolutely sets the bar for nearly every stylilized look at the distant future in films through the 50's. There are many references to the secret society boys here as well. The elites in the film belong to the Club of Sons. There are references to Molech who appears underground and workers are in turn fed to him as he appears as a stone mammal of some sort.There is reference to the Tower of Babel as well. Our protagonist in the film is the son of an elite who falls in love with an underground girl and petitions his conglomerate owner father for mercy on these people. He soon learns that power overrides compassion and sets out to lead the people from their enslavement. I rented this for purely the artistic exposure, but it turned out to have a very fitting social/political dynamic which is all to easily seen in our current societal progression.This is an 80 year old film and it's one the freshest most honest films I ever seen. Get it....see it....Thanks

Everyone go see Paprika! Its an incredible animated film that won first place at the tribeca film festival. Its an intense psychedelic journey about our dreams and an agent named paprika who can travel into people's dreams!

It also addresses themes of psychology, metaphysics, technology, parallel universes, goddess symbolism

http://www.sonyclassics.com/paprika/

Interesting tidbit about this one at IMDB

The write up at Wikipedia is worth checking out, too.

has anyone seen the movie 'pi'?

produced by the same guy who made 'requiem for a dream' it's a low-budget, non-hollywood black and white movie, which i still haven't figured out completely but every now and then i revisit. here's a brief synopsis i borrowed from 'imdb.com':

The mathematician Maximillian Cohen (Sean Gullette) is tormented by a severe migraine since he was a kid, and he uses many pills to reduce his painful headaches. He is a lonely man, and his only friend is his former professor Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis). Max has the following assumptions, which rules his life: (1) Mathematics is the language of nature; (2) Everything around us can be represented and understood from numbers; (3) If you graph the numbers in any systems, patterns emerge. Therefore there are patterns everywhere in nature. Based on these principles, Max is trying to figure out a system to predict the behavior of the stock market. Due to his research, Max is chased by a Wall Street company with obvious interest in the results of his studies, and by an orthodox Jew follower of the Torah, who believes that this long string of numbers is a code sent from God.  Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

well, i never ever woulda guessed id ever be making a comment and directing others to see this movie--"Lady in the Water" by M. Night Shyamalan.  never wouldve, and didnt think a thing of it, til i actually saw it, uninterrupted, yesterday in its entirety, on a nice early fall day.  calm, quiet, could devote attention to it.  i was amazed.  unreal undercurrents.  done very cleverly.  all based on the theme, which i love to death--"ALL BEINGS HAVE PURPOSE."   man, he weaved that theme in there very adroitly.

its a fairy tale about a fairy tale.  he is a very adept writer.  i love his name.  and hes young, and pretty much with it.  i like all his stuff, altho im sure it loses some oomph secondary to the physicality of a movie trying to portray the concepts of his words.  check it out.  life gives u meanings and messages and will surprise u.  what u think may be ur destiny might not be the real deal.  in the movie they needed a guardian, an interpreter of symbols and symbolic meanings, a guild, etc.,  to get this female queen fairy thingy chick back to her world.  even she didnt know she was a queen of her kind.  but she knew what had to be done but not the outcome directly.  everybody had a purpose but it was often hidden or mistaken, or seemingly fit, or did not fit, at all.  and who woulda thot?  several lines in it got to me too.  like all the ppl were really there for a purpose, drawn there, living their lives, yet they didnt know that, but collectively, it would change things.  and how every little thing out of happenstance by ppl interacting with each other, can change the future, and the outcome in the future depends on that.  it was so cool how he used the likes and hobbies and habits of the ppl in the apt complex (gathered together for a destiny they had no idea of) to indicate possibilities for their purpose.  and he saved her life (the lady in the water) yet she saved his by freeing him from his trapped past and and getting him to see his true nature and abilities.  she sorta returned him to himself. 

i was surprised overall.  the other half walked in, and said--"u didnt know that?  and i still havent seen the beginning.  its pretty cool isnt it?"  then we discussed it like we were in lit class.  i love doing that.  have class over something thats interesting and thot provoking.  what was surprising is that the reviews (inaccurate for the plot line) that id heard of it were not at all what it was trying to do.  check it out.

Wow, sometime I need to go back through and read this entire thread.  But then making sure to see all the movies will be a full-time job in itself.  Someday soon, hopefully.

I just saw a new one over the weekend called "The Nines".  It's a puzzle movie, or a reality-is-not-what-you-think-it-is movie, so going into any detail about the plot may take away from the experience.  There are plenty of reviews online that do this to varying degrees, and the short synopsis often given about three intertwining stories all involving the same actors is a pretty good description without going too far.

So to basically spoil it for the purposes of any meaningful discussion here (hopefully without much ruining the experience of watching it), this movie touches heavily on The Truth as many of us here might understand it as far as multidimensional incarnations on Earth.  It's mostly toward the end, it doesn't go into much detail, and it's done in a disappointingly solipsistic way, but the ideas are along the lines of what many sources have suggested as far as how and why we spend our time the way we do on Earth (and how some of us get addicted to it like crack).

I'm partial to these kinds of movies anyway so I was having a really good time watching it knowing some resolution along those lines would be coming, but the few specifics that were in there made me think the director and screenwriter (John August) must have been using some metaphysical source material as his inspiration along with the personal experiences he has stated on record.  There are some problems with the execution which may keep this movie from gaining a very wide theatrical release, but hopefully it will find an audience and get those who see it to think a little deeper about what might really be going on with our lives.  And hopefully the solipsistic nature of the plot device won't snag too many people who might otherwise be open to seeking some real answers.