# Recommend to me some "deep" movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-to-me-some-deep-movies/176403 "2003-05-20T22:09:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-to-me-some-deep-movies/176403/41 "2003-05-22T14:33:41Z")
_Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead Paths Of Glory Hud The Wicker Man The Ruling Class The Swimmer The Candidate Being There_ - better than the book _Monte Walsh Breaker Morant Posse_ (1975) _Blue Collar The Stunt Man Five Easy Pieces The Last Detail Black Robe If…_ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-to-me-some-deep-movies/176403/42 "2003-05-22T14:42:19Z")
**Rashomon** – it’s about the question of reality vs. our biased recollections. Technically, it might not fit, since it’s based kinda on two stories. But Kurasawa’s script is really something very different from the short stories it’s nominally based on. ---
**Author:** ![InquisitiveIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3ec8ea/32.png) [@InquisitiveIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InquisitiveIdiot)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-to-me-some-deep-movies/176403/43 "2003-05-22T18:10:30Z")
Forget movies - read a book if you want a deep intellectual experience. _The Lorax_ and _Horton Hears A Who_ are both very deep for their thickness. Quick, fast, and effective, like an introspective espresso. ---
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-to-me-some-deep-movies/176403/44 "2003-05-22T20:33:38Z")
Generally speaking: we don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are. So, really, a movie will be judged by you as deep if it hits on some theme that you already are thinking about. I personally think “hoop dreams” was about as deep as they get. “Babe” about the talking pig. Very deep in a child like way, lots of good lessons for kids and adults alike. “Slingblade” mmmhmm “the matrix” “vanilla sky” “AI” that other speilberg, tom cruise future one with the mind readers who could tell if a murder was gonna happen… ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-to-me-some-deep-movies/176403/45 "2003-05-22T21:09:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Total Recall I’ll see your _Total Recall_ and raise you **Death Race 2000**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-to-me-some-deep-movies/176403/46 "2003-05-25T21:26:35Z")
I’m going to recommend “A Man For All Seasons”. Here’s a link to the amazon reviews: [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6305252564/qid%3D1053897684/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr\_11\_1/104-3427797-3934326](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6305252564/qid%3D1053897684/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-3427797-3934326) The customer reviews give a better feel for the movie than the editorial review does. Warning: this film will put you through the wringer. The cinema student I saw it with remarked, “A great film should be so cathartic that people commit suicide after seeing it.” ---
**Author:** ![Wumpus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8c91f0/32.png) [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-to-me-some-deep-movies/176403/47 "2003-05-25T22:52:10Z")
I just saw Barton Fink again, and it’s a thought proking lil’ piece on the Life of the Mind. (“I’ll show you the life of the mind!”) One of those movies that gets better for me each time I see it. And you can’t beat Rear Window for an examination of the inherent voyeurism in watching any film or reading any text. For those who enjoyed the Matrix or Dark City, there’s always The Truman Show, which predates both (not that that’s a big deal: the basic “reality is just a sham” concept is far older than any of 'em). Written by the same guy who wrote the excellent GATTACA. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-to-me-some-deep-movies/176403/48 "2003-05-25T23:52:56Z")
**Equus**. ---
**Author:** ![anewthought](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@anewthought](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anewthought)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-to-me-some-deep-movies/176403/49 "2003-05-26T00:23:39Z")
Deep movies: The ring The crying game ExistenZ Cool Hand Luke Heavenly Creatures High Plains Drifter ---
**Author:** ![Omorka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Omorka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omorka)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-to-me-some-deep-movies/176403/50 "2003-05-26T23:13:17Z")
_Pleasantville Playing By Heart_ (It also has a “twist” ending; don’t let that throw you - it’s a fairly nice set of musings on the nature of love, identity, and family) _The Ice Storm_ (I hated it, but it was certainly deep) _Rushmore_ I’ll second _Amadeus, Baron Munchausen,_ and _Rosenkranz and Guildenstern Are Dead_, as well. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-to-me-some-deep-movies/176403/51 "2003-05-27T03:48:12Z")
_Grand Canyon_ - w/Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Danny Glover et al [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-to-me-some-deep-movies/176403.md?page=2)