5 Movies That You Can Never Forget For As Long As You Live.
These aren’t movies that are going to make you cry, or make you say “man, that was amazing!” to your friends. No — here are five movies that will literally change your life, because they will change the way you look at art, at people, at power — at everything.
Sometimes people make a list of movies that aren’t all that watchable. Not these — you can see these 5 ones thousands of times, and they are really, really powerful films.
#5: Riefenstahl’s Disturbing Masterpiece, Triumph of the Will.
If you want to understand war films, and films that glorify things (be it anything — war, a country, a person), this is the film to have in your repertoire when you need to think about it. Not because the subject of the film is wonderful or because Riefenstahl is a genius, but because of what this movie says about spectacle.
#4: De Sica’s Genius on Display in Bicycle Thieves.
If you want a little bit of proof that a simplistic story with the vaguest of outlines — man gets bike and job, bike is stolen, man loses job and steals another bike — can say universal things about humanity and sadness, then this is your film.
#3: Chinatown.
If you don’t feel like going through all the old film noir movies of the 30s and 40s, watch Chinatown instead. Not only is it a ridiculously good homage to all of those, but it arguably does 40s Hollywood better than 40s Hollywood did itself. This is one of those movies you can come back to, literally hundreds of times over.
#2: Vertigo is the Summation of Everything Hitchcock Did.
When people talk about deep novels with layers of meaning that you can return to again and again, this is the film equivalent of those. You can watch this for fun, for James Stewart, for San Francisco, or for Hitchcock’s complete dismantling of how he directs films, treats women, and sees the world.
#1: The Godfather.
You can almost never get tired of this film, it is that good on first go — nearly every scene is legendarily filmed, acted, and executed, and then the fact that it happens to convey some grand and great things about America is almost like a bonus, until that becomes the reason you return to it 50 times.
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