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Corrupt Recommends: Movies
2001: A Space Odyssey
Probably one of the strangest movies ever made, A Space Odyssey is partly a horrific tale of advanced technology gone mad, partly an artistic attempt to capture the essence of human evolution. Only Stanley Kubrick knows what the hell that monolith object is supposed to represent, but for those who understand the rest of it, this is a hallmark in classic cinema.
Apocalypse Now: Redux
Francis Ford Coppola's apocalyptic Vietnam action drama is a high-explosive adventure into the heart of America's decline. Fully equipped with Wagnerian war scenes, tribal cults and esoteric philosophy, there is simply no better war movie than Apocalypse Now.
Blade Runner
This cyber punk movie changed the whole science fiction cinema with revolutionary scenery, music and script. It's a quite extraordinary tale of the search for "human" robots hiding among the dark shit hole that is our future planet. But just about how human these robots are become the central philosophical theme of what is destined to remain an astonishing cinematic accomplishment.
Chinatown
Is corruption inevitable? We all want "truth", but in a world of six billion guesses, will we ever understand what's actually going on? In "Chinatown", Roman Polanski plays with our minds in a mix of epistemology and social criticism. This system, he warns us, will crush people who ask too many questions -- so give up. Polanski's world is a pessimistic experience, but healthily provoking: we might just as well ask more questions.
Fight Club
Fight Club focuses entirely on the destruction of modern society while taking some fun jabs at it, and for those purposes, it's worth a watch - you'll find yourself rewatching it many times over the course of years, and thinking to yourself on what a society built by Jack and Tyler Durden would look like.
Gladiator
Director Ridley Scott brings to you an emotive epic set in Rome, 180 AD. Gladiator is a beauty to behold, every scene and detail is given exquisite attention with a masterful artistic touch. Our center hero proves that no matter what you do to a human being and a man, you cannot change the mettle of the man himself. Watching this rebellion against his lot set to the powerful soundtrack, you can't help but feel your fighting spirit stir in response.
Gone With the Wind
The America Civil War makes a fascinating setting for one of the most famous romances of all time. It is a refreshing antidote to the cotton candy of a typical romantic comedy. The relationship between our flawed protagonists is honest about gender realities; their conflicted interaction -- an interaction that perhaps reflects the war present in the background and is undoubtedly influenced by their changes in fortune -- makes for delightful scenes and cutting dialogue. The heroine, in particular, learns many lessons in humility.
Hero
This film is perhaps the best to grace our screens from China. If you want martial arts, here are truly amazing scenes remorselessly delivered to your vision, accompanied by beautiful and symbolic colour-coded imagery. A narrative unfolds with increasing complexity as truths and untruths are dissolved to uncover layers of depth: of intrigue, of assassination, of honour, of battles personal and political. There is no way you will want to watch this movie just once; its construction begs you to view it many times.
Life of Brian
Monty Python makes silly tea-drinking humour out of ancient scriptures, but also out of the silly walks of human society at large. This English group’s greatest achievement lies in producing something so light-heartedly funny about such frustrating topics.
The Seventh Seal
Ingmar Bergman's internationally praised comedy set during the medieval plague in Sweden, where Death harvests victims of Christian souls. A Christian crusader and his squire ride through the dying landscape in search of the truth behind God. But God remains silent and only Death seems real. Despite seemingly horrifying and tragic, The Seventh Seal is really a comedy, more joyful than most movies about death will ever be, and certainly dead honest.
Total Recall
Tongue-in-cheek bits of futuristic pop culture blend with raw action in this classic sci-fi experience. Even the obligatory action and blood that come with an Ah-nuld film can't spoil Philip K. Dick's splendid tale of identity, even if it fails to ultimately capture the depths envisioned by the author.
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