Hello,

let me introduce myself: My name is Peter.

I read with great interest the blog-post of Jim "Deciphering Hollywood’s Hidden Messages" and I must admit I instantly felt here at home, because while I read the article it was like as Jim wrote my not expressed thoughts.

Most of the movies mentioned in that post seems to forming a red line, from movies where one discovers that the reality is a matrix and tries to escape from it and the difficulties to cope with the new reality, then living in alternative realities, realities that are created in the own mind and that seems to blend with the consensus reality. It seems that the collective consciousness is awakening or at least questioning the nature of this kind of reality, like someone is dreaming and suddenly becomes aware that he is dreaming.



I would like to create a here a personal list of movies that could deliver some stuff for some interesting conversation about the ... "destiny and the challenges and successes".
Maybe you can also post your list. Would be nice to see what is already in your mind ;)

Peter's List:
- Altered States (1980)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Tron (1982)
- Brainstorm (1983)
- Dreamscape (1984)
- The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
- They Live (1988)
- Akira (1988)
- Total Recall - (1990)
- Jacob's Ladder (1990)
- Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
- Virtuosity (1995)
- Dark City (1998)
- Pi (1998)
- Matrix (1999)
- The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
- eXistenZ (1999)
- Fight Club (1999)
- The Cell (2000)
- Frequency (2000)
- Memento (2000)
- The One (2001)
- Donnie Darko (2001)
- Vanilla Sky (2001)
- Solaris (2002)
- Equilibrium (2002)
- Minority Report (2002)
- The Time Machine (2002)
- Timeline (2003)
- Matrix Reloaded (2003)
- Matrix Revolutions (2003)
- Animatrix (2003)
- Identity (2003)
- Dreamcatcher (2003)
- I, Robot (2004)
- The Machinist (2004)
- The Forgotten (2004)
- Butterfly Effect (2004)
- A Scanner darkly (2006)
- Deja Vu (2006)
- Paprika (2006)
- Next (2007)
- Push (2009)
- Surrogates (2009)
- Inception (2010)
- TRON: Legacy (2010)
- Limitless (2011)
- Source Code (2011)

Hello Peter,

First of all, let me say that it is great to have you in the forum. From your first few posts, it is clear that you belong here! By the way, from what part of Germany do you hail? I spent a couple years in Munich many years ago!

Next, I have to note that the blog post "Deciphering Hollywood’s Hidden Messages" was not mine. One of our guest bloggers, Marc Oromaner, aka "thelayman" is an excellent writer and the author of this particular post.

I have also wondered about the progression of alternative reality themes in Hollywood movies. Are they reflecting public consciousness or creating it? Now, living just a few miles from Hollywood, I am discovering the interplay between pop culture, web memes, and sci-fi screenplays and wonder if some of the ideas discussed in this forum should be a part of it all!

This was a fantastic list of great movies

i just found it and signed up for the forum to tell you this ;)

sorry if im dragging up old threads but its a great list of movies heheh


a few others you might like:

- Mr. Destiny (1990)
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Family Man (2000)
- Shallow Hal (2001)
- Click (2006)
- Stranger than Fiction (2006)

Hello Intangir and welcome to the forum. That's an intriguing list of movies you've listed there. I'll have to research them soon.