RE: What Did I Just Watch?

This is a response to C.C Wilson’s blog entry found here:

http://camplongrun.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/what-did-i-just-watch/

Once I started reading through this blog, it was really hard to choose between which article to respond to as they were all really interesting to me, I actually wish I would have checked out this blog to respond ot it sooner but regardless:

In “What Did I Just Watch?”, C.C gives some well deserved praise to the “mind-bending” sub genre of film discussed by Steven Johnson in Everything bad is Good for You.

C.C. linked us to a very cool list of films, some of which I now plan to check out on my own (please come through for me Alden Library), but I felt like there were a few good ones missing that I really felt the need to let any fellow fans know about.

Here is Pi, a classic film about a man who becomes obsessed with patterns in numbers. A must see, especially for fans of Memento.

Next, this is one that i frankly cannot believe did not make it on to the list:

Requiem For a Dream is a film that loosely follows multiple drug addicts and their slow path to delusion. I cannot describe it much more, you just have to see this one.

Finally, my own personal favorite movie of all time:

Being John Malkovich, a story about literally being John Malkovich is a movie i knew i would absolutely love when my parents rented it when i was in junior high and said they hated it and didn’t understand it at all. Years later I bought it and the rest is history. I beg anyone who has never seen this to pick it up and watch with an open mind and allow your brain to expand!

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