So I was tagged by Chong to do top ten movie listing. The qualifier for top ten will be what hit my dominant and inferior function the most. MBTI functional stack much. Dominant: Intraverted thinking Inferior: Extraverted feeling The films will be ranked from most colourful to the darkest nihilistic films. More like a spectrum than a ranking system. I am a sucker for colours, cinematography, themes, concepts, plot, character development and acting to a lesser extent. Bright cheerful sappy films ---> extremely dark and nihilistic films 1. Lake House, Il Mare, My Sassy Girl - any film on time travel, distance, waiting for one another, all that idealistic nonsense, sucks me in like a mosquito drawn to the blue light. Time is a super intriguing concept to me. 2. Spirited away + Howls Moving Castle - I completely love the scenic imagination and themes within these anime. Howls moving castle comes to a close second. 3. Love Under the Hawthorn Tree and Long Road Home - Again a sucker for all those distance, time separation movie. Honestly Asian films have this feel to romance tragedy. A lot more action based than swooning words. 4. Pursuit of Happyness, Invictus, Coach Carter, Freedom Writers - you know those films that always inspire some hope in you. Starting to wish I was more nihilistic like you. 5. Chungking Express + Mood for Love + Fallen Angels - Wong Kai Wai is extremely conceptual as a filmmaker, super intuitive, like he just comes up with the script on the spot. Some lines he say, makes you dwell on that thought for days. + Ilo Ilo because this SG film is good enough to be place near Wong Kai Wai films...even though their style is still kinda different. 6. Wreck it Ralph - was a personal film. Since we are on cartoons...Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Up, Over the Hedge, Tangled. The plot twists and all the themes got the films in this list. 7. Dark Knight (the one with Heth Ledger, best actor ever) and Amazing Spiderman series - they blur all my morals, the good commits evil, and the evil can be good. I like grey areas. 8. Memento + Pulp Fiction + Monsters ball + Reservoir Dogs - simply because they are non-linear narratives. If they were linear they be so so boring. Monsters ball was epic acting from Halle Berry honestly. 9. Fight club - made conscious and solidified my convictions on materialism, minimalism, nihilism. Its the one film that has so many quotable lines. On a long enough time line everyones survival rate reduces to zero. 10. Requiem for a Dream - my first druggie film. Love the theme song. It was super haunting. Especially the grannys acting. And Nymphomaniac 1 and 2 - extreme nihilisitic view of the world. The art direction was much better in 1. But I really could connect with a lot of what the protagonist went through, at that period of my life. I know its suppose to be 10 films, but bright to dark was easier. You most probably watched almost all the films in my list, and you asked for recommendations. I cant think of any that you havent watched. But watch those I told you about. The silent films with like 6 lines in it kind. Goodbye Dragon Inn and Three Iron. Ian Kwek join the party. Do your list.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 19:04:49 +0000
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