06-22-2018, 07:52 PM
This forum is intended to show how great or near-great movies express (wittingly or otherwise) the turning theory. This can be at any stage of the cycle or within an era itself. There will be plenty of war movies, Westerns, science fiction, romantic comedies, musicals, and even horror stories may be introduced.
Please restrict yourself, though, to certifiably good or great movies. These need not be American movies or about America. Because most of us do not make a habit of watching schlock, and most of us are more familiar with great movies (like Casablanca or Cabaret) or even good ones (Superman I) than bad ones (like Gigli , Howard the Duck, or Superman III or IV)... let's stick to the ones we are more likely to have seen that we have cause to remember for reasons other than "How awful!". Or, "Oh, I remember seeing a wristwatch under the toga!"
Please restrict yourself, though, to certifiably good or great movies. These need not be American movies or about America. Because most of us do not make a habit of watching schlock, and most of us are more familiar with great movies (like Casablanca or Cabaret) or even good ones (Superman I) than bad ones (like Gigli , Howard the Duck, or Superman III or IV)... let's stick to the ones we are more likely to have seen that we have cause to remember for reasons other than "How awful!". Or, "Oh, I remember seeing a wristwatch under the toga!"
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.