Ray_Chill

... about how society really has changed over the years. The most recent that comes to mind is Rabbit-Proof Fence. The story of how 3 girls travel 1,500 miles in Australia from a "prison-camp of sorts" back to their home.

Most people turn their noses up if someone asks them to walk a couple blocks. Let alone 1,500 miles!!! Crazy.

What other specific movie subjects get you thinking about how society has changed over the years?

Iron Chef

Mississippi Burning - The fact that this movie is based on a true event sends shivers down my spine.

Lawrence of Arabia - The west in conflict with arabs

Schindler's List - Buying people to save them from certain death.

rfduncan

Gone With the Wind
Psycho
The Watermelon Man
Curse of the Queerwolf
Song of the South

Pants

I think the real surprising thing about Rabbit Proof Fence is that it shows how Eugenics and passive ethnic cleansing was tollerated up untill the 1970's in a country that today has shifted to being the most bleeding heart sensitive nation in the world to native people

Robert

12 Monkeys

slop101

American Beauty...

just kidding.

Seriously, though

Almost anything by Bunuel, Kurosawa, Felini or Bergman.

Pants

I don't like movies that make you think. I like to have my expectations met and not exceeded. On friday I go see whatever Extra! told me to go see.

Rocky_Stallone

Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas is a movie that made me want to stay away from drugs.

NCMojo

Rocky_Stallone makes me want to stay away from drugs...

No! No! Just kidding. I just could not resist.

For me, I was amazed and astonished at Memento. I walked out of the theater... literally feeling like a changed man. If you have not seen this film, go see it.

atari2600

memento (that one had me scratching me head for awhile)

inri222

Didn't T.E. Lawrence help the arabs fight against the Turks?

fumanstan

Mullholand Dr... and even when i stopped to think, read the explanations, and thought about it some more... i still hated it

nice_skis

Movies like Scooby-doo do that to me all the time. In fact, they mostly make me realize how we never will really evolve as a specie.

Why do they spend so much money on such a bad movie when somewhere, children are dying of hunger or lack of proper healthcare?
Other than the owner of the rights for Scooby-doo licensed products, who really did call for such a movie?
And why did they plan a sequel?
Has our society not yet understood the evil of such things?

eedoon

Far From Heaven
Dances With Wolves
Gone With the Wind
Rabbit Proof Fence
Beloved
Lonesome Dove

slop101

I have some friends that are actually just like this. They're not dumb or anything either - they just don't feel that movies are something to think about. They'll tell me: "You can keep your independant and foreign movies, just give me Brukhiemer and I'm happy."

Amazing.

Iron Chef

Yes he did, but theres a general theme running throughout the movie about the differences between the arabs and the west.

Tarantino

Donnie Darko
The Matrix
Memento

jfoobar

Except for the lesbian love scene, of course, which is the greatest four minutes of filmmaking the world has ever seen.