It didn't exactly change how I saw something, but Get Out really showed me in an unapologetic way how black people are talked down to by so many white people in this country and it's made me try to be more aware of my own prejudices when it comes to being a white person. Kind of weird that a horror film did that.
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The Good Place. I watched it during an existential crisis to confront my fear of death. It totally changed my mind! Now, I am too comfortable with the idea of death, and sometimes want to end it faster. I'm getting too tired and depressed to watch climate change slowly consume the world.
Well, don't forget that the Good Place is fiction. There's nothing waiting for you after this except nonexistence, so cling to life and claw every ounce of experience out of it while you can!
Heroes changed the way I look at writer's strikes...
Everything Everywhere All At Once changed my outlook on life, no joke
I agree 100%. I know that there are a lot of people who didn’t like it, but I’m so glad that the film had an impact on others like it did to me. It became an instant favorite and helped me come to terms with a lot of the thoughts and emotions I struggle with
How? I'm not trying to be a devil's advocate or anything, I really liked the movie, too! Just am curious how it affected your outlook
I was heading straight into nihilism but this movie really showed me that existentialism was the way
Dark waters https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9071322/
DuPont company and teflon. I have thrown out most of my old frying pans and replaced it with ones without harmful substances that are causing cancer.
Frying pans should be labeled as PTFE, PFOA, and PFAS free.
Six feet under changed my propective on death for the better too.
Atypical really gave an amazing insight into how neurodiverse people experience life and what their challenges are. One of the very best shows I have ever seen. Refreshing to have the main character be neurodiverse but no the butt of the joke like other shows used to deal with the topic most of the time.
It also showcases the many issues around someone with such a different life.
Helped me to be kinder to myself just as much as simply being more considerate of people around me. I don't know them. I don't know what is going on in their mind and why they act like they do. While I always attempted to be respectful of everyones reality, getting such an intimate and respectful glimpse was pretty important.
An Inconvenient Truth.
Quite staggering to see how relevant it still is today.
"Dead Man's Letters"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man%27s_Letters
Since I watched it, it made me fear the future forever and after.
Station Eleven helped me get through a lot of change I went through over the past few years. Some marriage stuff in the last year and a half, some personal shortcomings I've struggled with for a long time, overwhelming anxiety at every little injustice in the world. I've watched it all the way through more than 5 times since it came out. It didn't directly address any one of the things, even though it's a show about a pandemic the real pandemic itself wasn't really a huge "problem" for me (though, it not being a problem to me, is what triggered the marriage stuff), there's just something about the show that usually helps me deal with whatever I'm working through, there's so many characters to draw inspiration from.
Saving Private Ryan. I can’t see war or violence anymore without comparing to how realistic that was.
Pose is a great series that really helped me get over the residual homophobia and transphobia from my upbringing. It's a great show that helped me rethink my masculinity and how I love and support people around me. 10/10 recommend if you want to be rewarded for trying to keep an open mind
The Barbie movie showed me we are only against big corporations when they don't align with current ideology. Mattel proved it otherwise, imo. But hey, if the pharmaceutical industry has been shafting us since the 70s, why wouldn't the toy industry?
(this has nothing to do with being pro or against feminism)
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