What Movie Best Exemplifies Your Social Philosopy?

[Zen]

What movie(s) best exemplifies your social philosophy? You can
list as many as you want. Maybe you may want to write a
quote(s) from that movie(s).

I have three..

"Little Miss Sunshine"

Here are couple quotes from the movie.

"Oh my God, I'm getting pulled over. Everyone, just... pretend to be normal."

"You know what? F*ck beauty contests. Life is one F*cking beauty contest after
another. School, then college, then work... F*ck that. And F*ck the Air Force
Academy. If I want to fly, I'll find a way to fly. You do what you love and F*ck
the rest."


"Bedazzled"

The Devil: "Did your parents just make me up so that you'll be a good little boy?"


Pay It Forward"

"I guess it's hard for people who are so used to the things the way they are - even
if they're bad - to change. 'Cause, they kind of give up. And when they do, everyobody
kind of loses."

 

[MulletProof]

'We were drawn on and on where cities built by magic parted before us like mirages.
Mint carpeted our way, birds escorted us and fish swam upstream while the sky spread out before us as Fate followed in our wake like a madman brandishing a razor.'

'We have reached the beach and I am one of those who pull the nets in when immortality arrives in batches. Live in a house and it will not crumble. I will summon a century at will, enter and build my house in it. That is why your children and your wives all share my board, the table serving forefather and grandson: the future is decided now.'

the mirror.

 

[fashionkitten7]

Fight Club


It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

The things you own end up owning you.

You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you.

I flipped through catalogs and wondered: What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!

The movie goes on, and nobody in the audience has any idea.

... chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy **** that we don't need.

 

[Zen]

^ Thanks guys for the reply. Those are two really good films. Some great quotes as well.

 

[cestmagique]

I would have to say Blow-Up, although I don't know of a quote that could represent it. Same with Eternal Sunshine. About A Boy is one of my favorites though:

"Suddenly I realized, two people isn't enough. You need backup. If you're only two people, and someone drops off the edge, then you're on your own. Two isn't a large enough number. You need three at least."

 

[LUXXX]

Great Expectations...I really love this exchange...

Finn: What's it like not to feel anything?

Estella: Let's say there was a little girl, and from the time she could understand, she was taught to fear... let's say she was taught to fear daylight. She was taught that it was her enemy, that it would hurt her. And then one sunny day, you ask her to go outside and play and she won't. You can't be angry at her can you?

Finn: I knew that little girl and I saw the light in her eyes, and no matter what you say or do, that's still what I see.

Estella: We are who we are. People don't change.

 

[prettypouf]

Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.
Joel: I know.
Clementine: What do we do?
Joel: Enjoy it.
(Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind)

Another favorite is "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest".
"Masked And Anonymous". That sums up my philosophy .

 

[kristi_b]

Being There, the classic with Peter Sellers Go out and rent it.

"Life is a state of mind"

 

[cestmagique]

^^what about OFOTCN do you mean (if you don't mind me asking)?

 

[PrinceOfCats]

The Draughtsman's Contract.

 

[*Princesse*]

So the movies themselves may or may not be my social philosophy, because that's too much of an evolving moment for definition, but these quotes, perhaps, might sum up the moment fairly well:

Stranger than Fiction:

"Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren't any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten Danish, soft-spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange, but I also know that it just so happens to be true."

POTC: At World's End:

"Aye, we're good and lost now. For sure you have to be lost in order to find place what can't be found, elseways, everyone would know where it is."

Hamlet (Better than a movie, but counts nonetheless

"If it be now, 'tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all."

 

[emma peel]

just saw "the take" about workers in argentina expropriated factories after the financial crisis in 2001-- great film written by naomi klein.

 

[fouroclock]

The Departed, because I say the f-word a lot.

 

[Petit Lucille]

this is a great thread!!! why did it died??
I'm definetely Mr. Udal from As Good As It Gets!!!!

 

[ChloeFrancoise]

Maybe Harold and Maude?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUR3gfvxCTs