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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 :)

[–] hoyo-mont 12 years ago

You might say that's what movies do - blur reality. There's a big difference between a movie that shouts "hey, we are blurring reality!" and one that does it so cunning and subtle that you don't realize it until the film is near the end or over.

Naked Lunch is obvious about it, but it's great.

Fight Club is the opposite - trying to be clever, then in the end explaining (over and over) to the audience that they've been tricked. The movie seems aimed at it's slowest viewers.

[–] Edward_de_Vere 11 years ago

Try the following:

Barton Fink (also with Judy Davis!)
Brazil (also with Ian Holm)
Kafka (Ian Holm yet again)
Zentropa aka Europa
Hour of the Wolf
Northfork
Fear X

[–] BRAINIAC-2 11 years ago

"Last Year at Marienbad".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054632/combined

[–] estocade 9 years ago

That weren't mentioned before:
Trainspotting (some scenes)
Shutter Island
Donnie Darko
The Shining
Pi
Synecdoche, New York (still don't get it)
American Psycho (depends how you look at it)
A beautiful mind
Enemy

[–] shravanraghuram 8 years ago

Eyes Wide Shut

[–] klondike99 8 years ago

It has to be Eraserhead

[–] sniper-redwolf 8 years ago

Barton Fink

also about the artistic process of a writer

[–] Medinensis 8 years ago

Ok, you did say "just about any Lynch film," but his unholy trilogy deserves specific mention:

Lost Highway
Mulholland Drive
Inland Empire

For the uninitiated out there, I'd suggest watching them in that order if you're interested in watching them at all. Not mandatory, just a suggestion.

[–] Dan_Garten 8 years ago

Yeah.