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Anybody read this book, David Mitchell's The Cloud Atlas? Next month, to be a film by the Wachowskis, star-studded cast including Tom Hanks:

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution (-IMDB)

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trailer, Cloud Atlas
 
Based on that description, it sounds similar to The Fountain. I saw a trailer for it but it was too convoluted for me to really understand what was going on. I'm sure the main idea was just too deep to cram into a trailer.
 
pau said:
Anybody read this book, David Mitchell's The Cloud Atlas? Next month, to be a film by the Wachowskis, star-studded cast including Tom Hanks:

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution (-IMDB)

link to trailer
trailer, Cloud Atlas
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It looks really good!

I'm seeing at the day it comes to theater. :)
 
I just finished the movie Vanilla Sky (been watching it in segments over the course of a few days) and my mind is thoroughly blown. This movie resonated with me very deeply. I kinda wish they would make a sequel. Anyways, I guess Open Your Eyes is next.
 
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After receiving an offer of $100,000 for the natural gas drilling rights to his property, filmmaker Josh Fox travels across the country to investigate the potential hazards. What he discovers is shocking: contaminated groundwater that bubbles and hisses, residents suffering from chronic illnesses, andperhaps most disturbingly flammable tap water. Theyre all consequences of a rapidly expanding drilling campaign thats guaranteeing unsuspecting landowners a quick and easy payoff, but leaving behind a burning trail of secrets, lies and catastrophic environmental damage. Welcome to Gasland.
 
I was disappointed by how the whole thing was tied together. I felt that the movie did not maintain the high trajectory that it started off with in the first 0.5-1 hour. It was very entertaining and very beautiful at times, I just feel that the potential psychedelic aspects of the movie were not translated very well into plot. Definitely worth seeing though. I think that the vision of the writer and what they were trying to do with the movie was very very big, they just didn't get me there. This movie is one-of-a-kind, however (hopefully more like first-of-a-kind).
 
That Flatland movie looks like so much fun! I read the book as a child and it set my imagination AFIRE!

I cannot really afford to go to the movies much at all but the Cloud Atlas trailer is something I've been keeping my eye on for a long time now. It makes me weep - not just cry. It reminds me of DMT trip and iboga trip themes. I was sorry to see it did poorly in the theaters - they stayed away in droves. Probably too smart a plot. I look forward to seeing it sometime in the future.

In the meantime, let's not forget the classics.

I really think Nexians would like the classic movie, Madame Curie from 1943.

Madame Curie (1943) ⭐ 7.2 | Biography, Drama, Romance

I felt a great resonance with this movie for a number of reasons. It's good to see a movie that tries to tell at least a version of the truth about a great woman. The education I was given as a child - if I had believed that and only attended to that I would honestly believe that women and people of color paid zero role in American and European history, in particular the history of scientific discovery.

I think Nexians could relate to what the Curies went through - it's so much easier for us to get our product from raw bulk matter. She spent four years doing endless recrystallizations to try to get a sample of pure radium, each one yielding less product than the previous, :).

And first and foremost, every single version of this remarkable woman's life I have encountered, never hesitates to remind us of the amazing love relationship she shared with her husband. Pierre Curie, what a great man. History always says behind every great man is a great woman. Well, in this case, behind a great woman was a great man. In a time when the concept of a woman scientist was laughed away, he recognized her genius, he helped to empower it, to self-actualize it. He was her muse, her assistant, her advocate and her one and only great love.


Although this following is not a movie but a cheesy radio play, it's another perspective on her earlier life, when she worked with the Polish resistance against Russian occupation. And yet, it also stresses the great love these two amazing scientists shared:

http://www.cbsrmt.com/episode-1372-pursuit-of-a-dream.html
 
winter is here the fire is lit, the shutters have been battened down, merlot has been decanted
and there are some pukka recomendations here and here are mine

surveillance, jean de floret, mesrine 1 and 2, dead mans shoes, wolf creek, spun,les intouchables, cross of iron, in bruges, the day the earth stood still (not the new one), nightwatch,cyrus, on any sunday, adam and paul, ghandi,the good the bad and the ugly, things to do in denver when your"e dead, withnail and i, timebandits, network, a simple plan, one flew over the cuckoos nest, little bigman
oh and i forgot "in the name of the father" , and "the killing fields"
 
I think it was posted here before but I really want to promote this movie for those who haven't seen it:
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Here are some streams of the spanish original with english subtitles

Spain 1944, 12 year old Ofelia travels with her heavily pregnant mother to her new stepfather, a Captain of the spanish army trying to break partisan resistance in an mountain area. Ofelia is very fond of fairly tails. As the conflict escalates, she soon finds unexpected hope in them...

I think this movie is unique, simply due to it's unusual storyline. And it has definitly quite a few psychedelic ideas build into it. Oh, and there is also a mandrake, used for a spell. :thumb_up:

@hug46: thank you for listing time bandits. I haven't seen this since I was a kid and I think I remember a good movie I could not really understand back then. I'll watch it now. 😁
 
Pan's Labyrinth is beautiful, but I think it might be a bit too creepy for me to want to watch while tripping.

There's an obscure hungarian animated movie called Feherlofia, which has been a favorite of mine for ages, but I never actually watched it on psychedelics until last night. I can't recommend it enough! There's not a moment of this film that isn't thoroughly trippy. Give it five minutes in an appropriate state of mind and see if you're not already hooked.

(The translation on this youtube version isn't as good as the one I've got, it might be worth looking for the other one, possibly on bittorrent...)
 
The fountain



Freaking awesome, if I didnt know better I would think it was written by someone from this forum. totally think it was psychedelic inspired
 
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