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Why isn’t this thread about the election?
At this point I’m starting to wonder if I just dreamed it all…
A number of years ago I was watching a watchmojo list and what I saw I liked so much I stopped watching so I wouldn’t spoil myself any further. But since then, what I saw is such a hazy memory in my mind, I can’t work out whether it is real or not! At first I thought it may have been Taxi Driver (only because of the taxi association) but I saw it recently and it’s clearly not.
Would anyone know if this is actually from a film?
This is what I remember:
A man sits in the driver’s seat of a taxi in the driveway of a hotel late at night.
^ Similar to this, undercover, but much bigger (the drive is almost three lanes wide).
He’s not sitting right at the front of the hotel so the lighting is dim. He has a passenger in the back, a woman (possibly quite young) who he has been transporting for quite a while. She has a gun to the back of his head, and wants him to continue driving or not to stop here – either way she isn’t happy. The driver has had enough; he doesn’t want to have any more part in doing whatever he has been forced or convinced to do. After a tense conversation, the woman may or may not kill the man (I think this is tragic as he has been essentially helping her for the entire film) and leave him dead in his car, as she gets out and walks off (possibly into the hotel)…
Why isn’t this thread about the election?
Why wasn’t this thread asked about in The New Thread Thread?
WISHS
My bad, should have guessed there was already a thread for this!
More importantly: why were you watching a watchmojo list?
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Where were you when I specifically asked for help finding that thread?! Now I can’t even remember the thing I can’t remember!
Where were you when I specifically asked for help finding that thread?!
That depends on when you asked. My Internet access was down the first couple days of the month and I was sick in bed all last weekend.
Trapped inside my self-capsule
For a journey into an atmosphere
A darkened space I’m floating in
Although I am not here
I’m caught, a room, it’s colored black
The trap I haven’t chosen
I cannot think, my limbs
I cannot move, seems like they’re frozen
Peaceful existence in a world
Above earthly life
I’ve been there in this paradise
Where all is calm and nice
Walking in the other side
I can’t tell the difference
Between day and night
Voices I can hear
Hidden somewhere, but they’re near
Out there in this universe
Imaginary world of fantasy
Am I dreaming?
But It seems so real to me
Humanity denies death
Search for immortality
Melancholy desire
Can’t become reality
No reason to fear death
We all will meet it anyway
A promised life in hereafter
As we will pass away
Hopefully this can help you SkyderHouseMafia
It sounds a bit like “Until the End of the World” (1991) but all jumbled up.
It also feels a bit like “Mulholland Drive” (2001)
After Hours (1985) has a similar vibe
None of these are total fit but they are all good movies so what have you got to lose?
It sounds a bit like “Until the End of the World” (1991) but all jumbled up.
It also feels a bit like “Mulholland Drive” (2001)
After Hours (1985) has a similar vibe
None of these are total fit but they are all good movies so what have you got to lose?
I’ve only seen Mulholland Drive but it’s the opposite of a good movie.
So it’s a good exercise program?
It sounds a bit like “Until the End of the World” (1991) but all jumbled up.
It also feels a bit like “Mulholland Drive” (2001)
After Hours (1985) has a similar vibe
None of these are total fit but they are all good movies so what have you got to lose?I’ve only seen Mulholland Drive but it’s the opposite of a good movie.
Greatness can sometimes be the opposite of good. We don’t remember Herod as Good or Alexander.
No I definitely remember Herrod as being Alexander.
It sounds a bit like “Until the End of the World” (1991) but all jumbled up.
It also feels a bit like “Mulholland Drive” (2001)
After Hours (1985) has a similar vibe
None of these are total fit but they are all good movies so what have you got to lose?
Ok, thanks for the recommendations 😃
I’ve had Mulholland Drive on my to watch list for quite a while so I’ll have to check that one out soon! Is there some context I should know to make the film easier to understand or should I just experience it raw?
Oh and thanks Lord Hasbro for the existential trip 😛
Is there some context I should know to make the film easier to understand or should I just experience it raw?
Why would you want to understand a Lynch film? That’s like wanting to understand a Dali painting or an Escher print; it takes the funny right out of the experience.
Is there some context I should know to make the film easier to understand or should I just experience it raw?
Why would you want to understand a Lynch film? That’s like wanting to understand a Dali painting or an Escher print; it takes the funny right out of the experience.
Hmmm, I generally don’t enjoy films I don’t understand or have any solid grasp on. The exception is if the technical elements are aesthetically pleasing enough on their own - then I can still enjoy myself. I guess I have a desire to be able to comprehend most things. If I am unable to understand why something is happening or what something means I feel like I am unable to care. That’s not to say I need everything be easy to understand or that everything needs to make perfect sense, I’m talking about when I have no idea whatsoever is happening.
Is there some context I should know to make the film easier to understand or should I just experience it raw?
Why would you want to watch a Lynch film?
WYSHS
If you have to ask, then you’ll never know.
If you have to ask, then you’ll never know.
What am I missing, how should I approach Lynch’s films?
If you have to ask, then you’ll never know.
What am I missing, how should I approach Lynch’s films?
From behind, and then strangle them to death.
If you have to ask, then you’ll never know.
What am I missing, how should I approach Lynch’s films?
With a mind open to non-linear, surrealist filmmaking
With a strong stomach (if you’re going to watch Eraserhead)
If you have to ask, then you’ll never know.
What am I missing, how should I approach Lynch’s films?
From behind, and then strangle them to death.
Fool. You can’t kill what cannot die.
If you have to ask, then you’ll never know.
What am I missing, how should I approach Lynch’s films?
With a mind open to non-linear, surrealist filmmaking
With a strong stomach (if you’re going to watch Eraserhead)
Ok cool, thanks. Regardless of Frink’s cynicism I’m excited to see it!
The Straight Story and Elephant Man aren’t even that strange. They are pure Lynch though.