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movies that blur the boundaries of reality

posted 19 years ago by sacredrite
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There are a lot of lists on IMDB of "wierd" movies, "intense" movies, movies that "blow your mind". Lets make a list that's a little more specific: "movies that blur the boundaries of reality". You know, the kind where you're not sure if what you're watching is real, or a dream/hallucination of one of the characters. Here's a few to start with:

Vanilla Sky
Total Recall
Jacob's Ladder
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (ok, maybe this one doesn't belong)
Videodrome
Naked Lunch
Just about any David Lynch movie

I'm I could think of more, but I want to leave some spaces for you guys to fill in :)

[–] rebeccaevil 18 years ago

the Machinist

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[–] synvion 18 years ago

Dont forget Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas! (in many ways similar to naked lunch) and i think equally as good in my own personal opinion.

[–] thesightofpens 17 years ago

Um 8 1/2 anybody

[–] fergusg 18 years ago

would Fight Club fit in there?

I haven't watched Naked Lunch yet..am taping it tonight on Irish telly to watch tomorrow.

Can't effing wait. I've had a postit on the brain to watch this for years..always forgetting. Caught the newspapers today and spotted it....got someone to progranmme the recorder...

Hope it's as good as people make out.

[–] iscream22 18 years ago

Un Chien Andalou (An Andalucian Dog)
Tetsuo The Iron Man
Yellow Submarine

[–] DingoAteTheBaby 18 years ago

Altered States

"There's a lorry on fire, a man going up and down the lift, and we can't stop the dancing chicken!"

[–] cheamigo 18 years ago

Songs From The Second Floor

[–] ottffsse_sequence 18 years ago

I always feel dizzy after watching anything by Luis Bunuel:

"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie"
"That Obscure Object of Desire"
"L'Age d'or"

[–] elnuino 18 years ago

"Man Bites Dog" (Belgian movie, hard to say if it's fictional or documentary. Surrealistic in both cases)
"Akira" would definitely fit in (Whoa, did they really make a movie with that or the Director just induced us into some guided trance??)
And "El Topo" too. If you can find it.

et ils sucent des cigares longs comme des fusils
-Jacques Brault

[–] cheesedog22 18 years ago

I would say that "Withanil and I" is pretty trippy, great flick, same with Adaptation, and obviously one of the trippiest movies ever made "Eraser Head."

[–] pearljam4537 18 years ago

oh Man Bites Dog is so good. it is a mocku-mentary, just like Spinal Tap. As Spinal Tap was a mocku-mentary in the form of comedy, Man Bites Dog does the same thing for serial killer films.

[–] insidethewall 17 years ago

Pink FLoyd the wall
Brazil

[–] amodestmind 17 years ago

oh man i just saw songs from the second floor in my scandinavian cinema class.
that is one straaange film.

mindgame
it's a japanese film. but it's crazy.. very trippy

[–] classicmoviecomedy 17 years ago

To me, "Naked Lunch" is really one of the great films about the process of artistic creation. Some of my other favorites:
The Circus (Charles Chaplin, 1928)
Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli, 1956)
8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
The Patsy (Jerry Lewis, 1964)
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
Life Lessons (Martin Scorsese, 1989)

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[–] nicola-machiavelli 18 years ago

Never forget Gilliam's "Brazil"!

[–] wazlthescapegoat 18 years ago

rashomon
the wall
2001 a space oddysey
being john malkovich
jan svankmajer's Alice
almost any lynch, croninberg or bergman movie
today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration.

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[–] drawbunny 18 years ago

just about any japanese cyber punk movie

TETSUO 1 and 2

RUBBER'S LOVER

964 PINNOCCHIO

and so on....

[–] Forrish 18 years ago

The Dark Hours is a newer one...pretty good..and the Descent

[–] walkerkalan 18 years ago

Run Lola Run

[–] Harlesden_P_Ruffkins 18 years ago

1 person mentioned it, but it deserves more than one mention: Brazil. You could count 1984 too in my opinion.

[–] peter81965 18 years ago

every single movie ever made? it's all an illusion isn't it?

[–] amad67 18 years ago

How bout Pearl harbor?

Die slowly, okay? We don't want you coming back alive on us.

[–] nightstray 18 years ago

Ghost in the shell

[–] JustCallMeAndy 17 years ago

Id say 'Society' is just as strange ...