You know those movies that really made you think hard or question your sanity upon seeing them due to some crazy plot twists or WTF moments. What are your favorites?
Me! So in general, movies made by Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a dream), David Lynch (Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet), and Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Inception) I love.
Mindf*ckery for me means that the film had me transfixed all the way through and I still think about it in subsequent days (or years) to follow. Tapos kapag napanood mo ulit, you’ll still find interesting details that you didn’t catch the first time.
Parasite
Get Out
2001: A Space Odyssey
Donnie Darko
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Midsommar
• The Lighthouse
• Us
• Annihilation
• Nocturnal Animals
• Arrival
• Birdman
• Under the Skin
• Holy Motors
• The Skin I Live In
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Black Swan
Nolan movies, like Memento and Inception obviously. OG Oldboy. Most Korean noir and tragedies, actually. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. OG Evangelion.
Ari Aster also did Hereditary but Midsommar was so trippy. Didn’t leave me for days.
Synecdoche, New York (I slept for a week in my room having the blues)
Birdman
Joker (haunting Joaquin Phoenix acting)
The Vengeance Trilogy
Nolan movies (started with Memento then Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk)
Stanley Kubrick’s works (tmtm )
Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan)
Mulholland Drive
Fight Club (also other David Fincher’s works)
Ex Machina
Gone, Girl and The Girl on the Train (but I liked the books more)
Abre los Ojos and its Hollywood remake Vanilla Sky
La Piel Que Habito
Parasite, The Platform
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Truman Show
The Machinist
Get Out
The Tree of Life
Waking Life