WHAT MOVIES DO YOU THINK ARE MUST WATCH EXMO CLASSICS?!
Does anyone else have to explain why they have never seen certain movies?
I have to explain to people all the time that I couldn't watch certain ratings growing up. It's cool now because all these movies I've never seen are new to me.
Donnie Darko was brought up by Johnny Boy. If you watch it you will catch and notice many similarities between Lying Joe and a character in the movie Named Jim Cunningham, played by Patrick Swayze.
I just recently read a book called the Dangers of Cult Psychology. The book states that former members of cults are highly likely to manipulated in their post-cult life, even to the point of joining another cult without even realizing it.
The Character of Jim Cunningham from Donny Darko is a good example of why to question everything(cult of personality). Don't forget to question everything. This board does a great job of recognizing MLM's and other religions. Remember their are other types of cults as well ranging from political, self help/psychology, Diet and physical health and cults of personality.
The first Matrix movie is sick! One time a TBM asked me why I left the church. I responded, "Do you want the red pill or the blue pill."
1975, Warner Barfers, with a no name cast. It's about an attempt by a troupe of Muslin Sheets to make parachutes so that they can escape from the top of the world, where a jealous ghawd had imprisoned them.
The first attempts end in screaming all the way down, 6,000 feet, failure. Some of the elders counsel the impetuous youth to give up and accept their fate, but the bleeder of the youth, a post-menopausal teen, hectors the other youth to not give up.
It's very dialogue driven, with long passages as the leader of the elders, a young crone named Mary K. Cozmetiks, and the bleeder of the youth, Samsonia Vamos Chica, argue their respective points of the U.
As the movie ends, all the youth jump, successfully, and those who stay behind are seen arguing over what the youth left behind.
Rambo Gladiator The Road Warrior Kumare Conan (the Barbarian as well as O'Brien) DMT: the spirit molecule Southpark (the mormon episode) Alien Eyes Wide Shut Dangerous mind's Saving private ryan Showgirls (jk...lol)
I've met one exmo who said "The Village" was the movie that woke her up.
I also agree with "The Matrix" as it had a huge impact on me on some instinctual level. I felt like I could not breathe after I watched it and I couldn't explain why. I was still TBM when I saw it. I had to run to force me to breathe. I ran in the night for several blocks not really understanding what was digging at me.
I also love "Pleasantville" because of the message that following one's hart is a great thing. This is also the movie that woke my kids up out of the cult.
Finally I would suggest "Logan's Run". This movie was banned by my ward when it came out. They cited nudity as the reason to not see it. This movie has so many themes dealing with cult life and it also has one of my favorite quotes: "Don't think - it only slows you down".
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I was working in Provo when "The Village" came out. All the TBMs I worked with loved it. They thought it represented the village as non-Mormons who didn't know what life was all about and the outside of the village as Mormonism that has all the light and all the answers.
When I heard that all I could do was stare with my mouth dropped. I also, thought it was one of the best metaphors of my own life that I've seen. I total related to being in a closed-off unrealistic world and then finally seeing the light. It just showed that we see what we want to see.
praydude Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Finally I would suggest "Logan's Run". This movie > was banned by my ward when it came out. They > cited nudity as the reason to not see it.
A young Jenny Agutter topless. Now *that* will wake up any male from the mormon fog :)
Bagdad Cafe The Piano The Spitfire Grill Mildred Pierce Sneakers Monty Python and the Holy Grail A Fish Called Wanda The Event Horizon G.I. Jane Sunshine Cleaning And the Band Played On If These Walls Could Talk The Godfather (all of them) Aliens (all of them except Prometheus) Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, The Red Dragon
I agree with some that have already been mentioned, "The Truman Show" was a good reflection finding out that your whole life has been an illusion created by others. I watched Orgazmo with fellow exmos, and that was a fun laugh fest--our irreverence doubtless offended "the spirit" (tm).
Two others I would add along the line of the Truman Show that get at this idea of the tension between the life others have laid out for you, and the life you would like to lead are: "The Good Shepherd" and "Revolutionary Road."