So I need help with a paper.

[BeserkerHilf]

Ok, so for my physics for design class, i need to write a paper on the topic "knowledge is only an illusion" and how it relates to my specific area of study (film and video). My thesis of the paper is that a director's job can be one that makes a film filled with so much symbolism and whatnot that it's up to the filmgoer to interpret instead of the director directly telling people what everything means. hence, what one thinks about a movie is only an illusion as someone else's interpretation could also be the right answer.

i need to sources. the first is someone's interpretation of 2001: A space oddysey.

But i need a second movie, and i can't use the matrix.

any suggestions?

 

[C. Lee]

Contact

 

[Truthteller]

"Contact" would work.

So would the Bergman classic; "The Seventh Seal"

 

[wiegeabo]

The Matrix Reloaded.


Honestly, it's too bad you can't use the Matrix movies. They're loaded with symbols and hidden messages. All you'd need is the special 10 disk edition with the DVD's that discuss those issues.

 

[Truthteller]

Actually another good one would be Hitchcock's "Vertigo"

 

[Badger]

Mulholland Dr.

 

[wiegeabo]

Momento may not have a lot of symbolism (actually it might, I need to watch it again). But the whole movie is about the nature of truth, and even thought facts never lie, truth is still up for grabs, even when the facts are there.

It also touches on the idea that memory is all we are, all we have, and without them we no longer exist.

 

[Truthteller]

Mulholland Dr.

Yeah, actually I was going to mention another David Lynch work; "Eraserhead" - but that might be too much.

 

[Truthteller]

Momento may not have a lot of symbolism (actually it might, I need to watch it again). But the whole movie is about the nature of truth, and even thought facts never lie, truth is still up for grabs, even when the facts are there.

It also touches on the idea that memory is all we are, all we have, and without them we no longer exist.

Good point, I thought immediately of Momento as well.

 

[Revolver_Ocelot]

Right at this moment I'm writing an 8 page paper on Matt Dillon's antisocial behavior in "Crash".

 

[C. Lee]

Yeah, actually I was going to mention another David Lynch work; "Eraserhead" - but that might be too much.

Better that than "Pink Flamingos".

 

[blind_fury]

V for Vendetta had a good point about using art(lies) to tell the truth.

Other good movies to use is the Truman Show and Vanilla Sky.

also looky what I found:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~brennan/movies.htm

 

[blind_fury]

Right at this moment I'm writing an 8 page paper on Matt Dillon's antisocial behavior in "Crash".

For what class?

 

[Revolver_Ocelot]

For what class?

Abnormal Psychology

It's difficult writing 8 pages on a character that was on screen for maybe 20 minutes.

My professor is an idiot

 

[Man-Thing]

The Seventh Seal... Isn't that the one where the guy plays death in a game of chess? If so, that is great for symbolism.

 

[Cyclops]

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail64.html

 

[xwolverine2]

AMERICAN PSYCHO

your teacher would love it too

 

[Halcohol]

It's too bad The Fountain hasn't been released yet, I bet that'll probably go sickeningly overboard on the symbolism.

 

[BeserkerHilf]

AMERICAN PSYCHO

your teacher would love it too

considering he's a 20-something TA, most likely.

plus, thats the only movie i have from the list above.


and unfortunately, i'm still having a hard time understanding it, so that might actually work.

thanks for the help guys, and i am really looking forward to the fountain.

 

[JTStarkiller]

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail64.html

Thanks for that. I'd nearly forgotten about that website, and will never get tired of that segment.

 

[Sandman138]

Films

Kuleshov Expirement

Books

The Film Sense by Sergei Eisenstein

Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema by Christian Metz

 

[Dangerous]

Do magic tricks!