Your Favorite Movie (MGM, Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Jake Gyllenhaal)
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Katz, this has been done over and over again here, but I agree with you that people tend to post a long scrolly list instead of their One Absolute Favorite.
I won't do that.
My one favorite: Local Hero
Come on! Somebody? Everybody has a favorite movie.
Pretty In Pink
Staring Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, James Spader.
A poor girl in high school is always teased by the rich aristocratic kids and so she falls for one of the rich boys and he falls for her and then they are torn between being with each other or what their close friends now think of them until at the very end of the movie at the prom when they ???
Thanks, guys. I'll add those to my list. I didn't know James Spader was in "Pretty in Pink." I absolutely loved him in "Boston Legal."
And yeah, I figured it had been done before, but the people posting change over time. Besides, I didn't want to start at the beginning of a 50 page thread.
Here is how life is supposed to work. We come out of ourselves and unfold into the world. We try to realize our desires. We fold back into ourselves, and then we die. "Synecdoche, New York" follows a life that ages from about 40 to 80 on that scale. Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a theater director, with all of the hangups and self-pity, all the grandiosity and sniffles, all the arrogance and fear, typical of his job. In other words, he could be me. He could be you. The job, the name, the race, the gender, the environment, all change. The human remains pretty much the same.
Here is how it happens. We find something we want to do, if we are lucky, or something we need to do, if we are like most people. We use it as a way to obtain food, shelter, clothing, mates, comfort, a first folio of Shakespeare, model airplanes, American Girl dolls, a handful of rice, sex, solitude, a trip to Venice, Nikes, drinking water, plastic surgery, child care, dogs, medicine, education, cars, spiritual solace -- whatever we think we need. To do this, we enact the role we call "me," trying to brand ourselves as a person who can and should obtain these things.
In the process, we place the people in our lives into compartments and define how they should behave to our advantage. Because we cannot force them to follow our desires, we deal with projections of them created in our minds. But they will be contrary and have wills of their own. Eventually new projections of us are dealing with new projections of them. Sometimes versions of ourselves disagree. We succumb to temptation -- but, oh, father, what else was I gonna do? I feel like hell. I repent. I'll do it again.
Well... I could list a whole bunch of them, but since that's against the rules of this thread , "Dances with Wolves."
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Your very favorite movie
, "Dances with Wolves."
