• SanguinePar@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Not sure if these count as nihilistic exactly, but some suggestions:

    • Vertigo
    • Reservoir Dogs
    • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    • The Birds
    • Mulholland Drive
    • The Wicker Man
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      10 months ago

      Somewhere I have a notebook with scene-by-scene notes on Mulholland Drive. Time loops, alternate universes, fever dream sequences that may be real, throwbacks, lookalikes, detours into madness and fear, all that. Multiple viewings. Full Deep River Ontario shit. (We actually IRL visited that creepy diner in CA. That experience is not recommended. The breakfast is OK. The turkey sandwich is 1000 times not OK.)

      For me, every theory regarding the “WTF is happening” aspect falls apart when the old couple from the taxi come creeping out of the blue metallic lock box. Like, everything sort of hangs together with some fuzzy dream logic for me, but then falls apart in the true gossamer of dream fashion. There’s sometimes a buggy, I guess.

      Top 10 of favorite movies.