Formal would be better. Ideally, I would like a movie that was designed to be that way. Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat might be a good example even though I haven’t seen it.
I’ll take the other as well. It might be fun to pigeonhole peoples beliefs.
BTW, All the examples I can think of have people confined to a small space. !2 angry men might be another example.
I was going to mention this one.
Hmm. [del]I <3 Huckabees[/del]
My Dinner with Andre has two people with very different philosophies of life.
Haha! + 1
How about “Amazing Grace”, about Wilberforce’s attempts to abolish the slave trade in Britain? There are disagreements within his own supporters about how to move on the issue, whether revolution is a viable option, whether the parliamentary process will work. There are his opponents, who place economic values over abolition. And there is a former slave, who simply says, with great force and dignity, “I am a man, yet this is what they did to me.”
American History X.
In a way.
This is going to sound dorky but bear with me.
There’s an episode of DRAGNET 1969 (I think it was that year) where Friday and Gannon go to bust a college professor for drug use. Sounds typical.
But the entire episode, beyond a minute or two of setup, is a surprisingly evenhanded back-and-forth between Friday and the professor about drug use, freedom of action, and the responsibilities of societal expectations.
Really, it’s an astonishing thing. And it’s Jack Webb at his best.
Probably not what you are looking for, but my Finance professor last semester showed us (parts of) *Other People’s Money *because of the presentation of alternate viewpoints in the movie–basically should investors shut down a factory and ship the jobs overseas or keep an inefficient factory open.
This might also not be totally what you’re looking for but pop on over to the Harry Potter seen it thread and read the fascinating argument that popped up on the decision of Hermione to change her parents memory. I’m sure a lot of the students would have read the books, or at least seen the movie, and you could start another great discussion on it.
It’s more about religion than philosophy per se, but the Firefly episode “Jaynestown” presents one of the most even-handed depictions of two incompatible worldviews I’ve ever seen. It’s also funny as hell.
Well, by definition, nobody . . .
Princess Mononoke which examines man’s relationship with nature from two different perspectives.
Funny that nobody has made a film of ‘Sophie’s World’
Wall Street - Greed is Good.
I heard Big Lebowski is philosophical…
Every character represents a different philosophy/worldview.
The Dude-Buddhism
Walter-Judaism
The Big Lebowski-Objectivism
The Stranger-Existentialism
The Nihilists-Nihilsim
Bunny Lebowski-Hedonism
Maude Lebowski-Feminism
Smokey-Pacifism
The Sheriff-Fascism
You probably shouldn’t show it to 16/17 year olds, but for your own sake, watch I Heart Huckabees. It’s amazing.
The Matrix is pretty relevant to hedonistic utilitarianism and experience machines. The peple who regret being unplugged and even try to be reassimilated are like Bentham, but Neo and the techno-bondage crew are qualitative about their pleasures. As are most techno-bondage crews.
So I take it you can’t show “Last Tango in Paris” and then hand out butter as an extra credit assignment. American Public Schools are sooooo Puritanical! :eek:
Other than that “takes place in Britain” thing, of course. 