3 Films I wish everyone could see

I watch a lot of movies. It's ironic that I don't like many of them but it's a symptom of having watched a lot of movies. After awhile, you stop getting drawn in or surprised because everything is a re-hash of everything else.

These 3 films are not high art, and they aren't going to win any oscars, but they evoke a feeling when I watch them. They draw me into their little worlds and I get bundled up in anticipation for what will happen next. The thing they have in common is that they are different from the rest. They feel like little gems found on an endless beach of sand. Not the prettiest, but beautiful.

The Station Agent - This is the first film I ever saw Peter Dinklage in. Being a life long rail fan, what drew me to the movie was the premise, a man inherits a train station. What has made me watch it so many times, is the way it tells a story with very little in the way of dialogue. There is a scene where Dinklage is walking along a train track, and a little girl begins to follow him, walking like him, mimicing him behind his back. He stops and turns and they kind of stare at each other a moment and he says "Hey" and the girls body language changes to self consciousness and she abruptly runs away. That felt very real, and it wasn't there to further a plot, or weave a good twist into the film, but it captured a simple moment that rang true.

The Man from Earth This movie literally takes place in a room, where people are talking to each other. Sounds boring right? It's what is said that matters. It starts out like a thought experiment, but as the conversation unfolds, it takes a turn for the surreal, and then the miraculous. At the end of the movie, you feel a loss that the story isn't true, and that these people don't really exist, because the conversation is one in a life time. The fact it's written by Jerome Bixby, long after his retirement from film and television, as a kind of swan song at the end of his life, only makes it that much more special.

Subject Two The trailer tries to make it seem like a horror movie, but it's not. The horror isn't about a killer or a monster, or running for your life or any of that stuff. It's psychic horror at the implications of life without feeling. There are only 5 people in this movie, and yet it doesn't seem to be lacking. Instead it dives directly into strange waters, and part of the excitement of watching it, is having your expectations dashed at every turn as you try to classify what kind of movie it is. Rather than be defined by a genre of film, the story finds it's own way, adhering to no formulas or rules. In that way it is a very refreshing, but un nerving, troubling, and thought provoking study of humanities desire for longevity at any price. I don't want to reveal too much and I suggest you watch it without the trailer, but the ending of the film leaves me with the disquieting thought that some of us wander the world, unfeeling, numb to beauty, warmth, and wonder, cursed to exist in a half life until the end.

Submitted March 17, 2018 at 06:31PM by kodack10 http://ift.tt/2FH1Nru