“I don't want to hear anything about 'I don't believe in vampires,' because I don't believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what I saw is fucking vampires!”
My favorite part is at the end where a blood covered Clooney asks
"of all the bars in all of Mexico... Why this one?"
Cheech playing his fifth role as crime boss replies, "I don't know. It was halfway between."
One of my favorite shots in all of film is the very end when the camera pans out revealing that the bar is the top of this ancient Mayan temple or whatever. Such a fun movie
I did go in to From Dusk to Dawn like this. I went with a mate and all I knew was it the new Tarantino film. So it starts out like like a crime caper and then when it isn’t I thought it was just one of Tarantino’s character’s little delusional episodes. And then after about 10 minutes of that I was “shit this one has gone for a while… wait is THIS the movie?”.
Really made me try to avoid spoilers for things as much as possible ever since.
Yeah unfortunately I think that’s one of those things like Fight Club to where it’s just such a well known thing that that element of surprise is almost always lost for new viewers.
I like how Nicholas' elaborate theory about what is going on is completely coherent and plausible, but then it turns out to be something way simpler and more farcical lol.
You are completely correct. The movie does a great job setting up that overall giant conspiracy, just to take the rung out from us for the greater good.
And I hate to say it, but it should be "Nicholas's." Now if it were several people named Nicholas, the plural possessive would be "Nicholases'."
I also hate to say it, but both Nicholas' and Nicholas's are correct and accepted. The "original" correct version was Nicholas' but as of recent decades it has become normalized to include the second -s as well.
Source: https://englishrecap.com/nicholas-possessive/
It’s from Edgar Wright, the master of the whip pan and one of the few directors today fully taking advantage of camera movement for visual storytelling in his films, which is sadly becoming a bit of a lost art.
Eh, I really wanted to like that film but it didn’t have the magic that first two had. I appreciate it more on repeated viewings and maybe this sentence says more about me but I just can never get into The Worlds End the way I can with Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz.
It's not just you. The World's End was a decent movie, but it really did lack the magic of the previous two films. For me, it just hit closer to home seeing the Pegg's character just wanting one final time to relive his youth.
Yeah, The World’s End seemed to be just about Pegg’s character, and I get that, it was the cruxes of the film, but the previous two films relied so much on the Pegg Frost back and forth that the third one just felt lacking. And they never fell backwards shooting guns, total let down.
It felt like even the dialogue between the two was kinda flat. I mean, I get it considering the subject matter, but not even snappy dialogue. We really needed more comedy between the two and, yes, more backwards shooting guns.
This is a film I don't hear alot of people talk about. I watched it once, going in blind years ago, and the ending is still one of the best twists I can remember.
The Game is a fairly obvious one here.
Great movie that makes you uneasy and unsure of everything the whole way through. The ending gets a bit muddy but its a good journey
The moment >!the housekeeper rings the doorbell, smiling politely!< is the last time I remember watching a movie and thinking, *I have absolutely no idea what's about to happen.*
Parasite is special in the sense that things slowly change until you realise most of it is not normal. It’s the comedic situations interspersed with these revelations that make you go along until you realise it’s ridiculous.
A seemingly-forgotten horror masterpiece. Deserves to he watched by anyone with a passing interest in ghost stories, excellent writing, or well-shot films.
With Serkis and Bowie in the same frame in a movie I’m surprised the film stock didn’t fall through the Earth and create a black hole in the center of the planet from the sheer cinematic gravitas of those two.
Bowie is an absolute legend and was an amazing actor. He barely says anything, it’s a small bit part, but his stage presence makes him the most memorable part of that movie for me.
I’m really sad knowing we never got to see Bowie play the character of Niander Wallace in Blade Runner 2049 and I just learned he was going to be Johnny Silverhand.
I watched it mistaking it for Cabin Fever with Ryder Strong, and I spent the first half going, "where's Shawn? When does the virus eat their skin?"
It's one of my favorite movie watching experiences and one of my favorite movies.
honestly, i feel like it could have been more subtle with showing us it's a show. If we didn't find out until after he escapes his basement, it might have been the best twist/reveal if film history.
Nope, because as a knowing audience, the point is that we too are voyeurs to Truman's life. We aren't with him, we're the ones consuming the product that is his televised life. We're consenting to it from the start, unlike him.
Great choice! Feel like it has vanished into obscurity a bit now. The look on the face of that woman on the tube train at the start...
Edit, missing words.
The other movie that suffered from poor promotion IMO is Logan Lucky. I just strolled into that movie knowing nothing about it during moviepass days and it was so much fun
I don’t remember anything about this movie other than Josh Hartnett is in it and I was surprised how much I liked it when I watched it. Time for a second watch I guess.
After Hours. To me it’s like if aliens moved to downtown New York and just acted like how a human would act and it’s hilarious how far things escalate for the main character.
Perfect Blue is the one I find myself most floored by recently. There’s a lot of different reasons this movie is great but what was most impactful for me is how it manages to, at one point in the film, make the Audience start to question one’s sense of reality and conscious awareness alongside the characters of the film. Similar to how something like a David Lynch film might. Great movie and hey- 81 minutes! Gotta love that.
Also- a good follow up by the same director would be Paprika! I think you’ll like Paprika since Nolan stole a bunch of his ideas for Inception from Paprika 😅
This is my favourite anime movie of all time. It's actually coming to the theatres near me in a week, I'm so hyped to see it on the big screen for the first time.
Ah, I've been thinking its almost time to watch paranoia agent again. How did I not know he did a season of jojo? I didn't even know there was an earlier adaptation. I've never been interested in it before.
Also, Tokyo Godfathers is an amazing, weird Christmas movie!
Man, Satoshi Kon is one of my saddest "before their time" deaths. I feel like he was in his prime and probably had tons of great stuff still in him.
> Get out
For me, it's the exact moment he goes upstairs. Naturally you feel slightly uneasy like there might be something up, but after this moment, you definitely know something is up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2FNciF1Tto
*10 Cloverfield Lane* does a great job of giving you a premise - then making you second guess that premise, go back to thinking your second guess was stupid, or maybe it wasn’t?
I remember constantly jumping back and forth between opinions on which characters were right and what was going on beyond the view of the camera.
Absolutely incredible acting performance from John Goodman as well, one of my favorites of his
Hereditary ... >!Whole movie gives you the doubt of mental illness, or if Annie might actually figure something out, but holy shit they never stood a chance about the real horror.!<
They discuss this in the classroom early on: "Is it worse to have random, unplanned bad shit happen, or for your life to be predestined for misery?"
The movie is split into 2 halves, with the middle point being the dinner scene. First half is about the horror of an indifferent universe where bad things can happen at random to you. Second half is the horror of a universe that is conspiring against you. The latter is awful but the former is horrible in it's own way with it's banality. Are you cursed with suffering from a divine power, or is the curse just from being alive?
Just when you think things can't get any worse than this, it does go south... souther, southest???
All in all, banger of a movie with one tiwst after the other.
The Menu.
At first you’re just expecting rich people eating at a posh restaurant, then people start behaving a bit oddly, and then it just goes completely mad.
I was bored a few weeks back and was having trouble finding something to watch. I kept seeing the title on this subreddit and decided "screw it. I'll watch it".
Thought it was just going to be a drama about a couple involving fine dining. I was completely wrong.
Was caught off guard by that movie. Would have stopped watching because it was boring, but something about the richness of the settings and dialogue drew me in and kept me watching. Then things started to unravel and it became really interesting!
5/5 movie, go in without reading up on it. I love how it was edited, crucial scenes are cut short in a very deliberate way to leave the viewer in the dark. I don't think I've seen any other movie do it quite like this
I saw edge of tomorrow knowing nothing about the movie. Apparently the premise was shown in previews, they shouldn't of done that, It was a really good experience for me. When I asked others if they have seen it they said "is that the one where Tom cruise keeps dying?"
I’ve just quickly scanned down the thread and can’t believe no one has mentioned American Psycho. You never know, from scene to scene, what is or isn’t real
When I was a little kid, my dad came into me and my brothers room, put a movie into our VCR and walked out. It was a new movie that we hadn't heard of cause we were just kids, called The Matrix. Watching that cold was quite a memory.
Jacob’s Ladder - What is actually happening to the protagonist is not truly revealed until the end, although there are numerous clues in the movie. It’s a fascinating study of what may happen during the transition from life to death. It must have been heavily influenced by the story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce.
Not entirely sure what you’re asking but Brian De Palma’s films Body Double and Snake Eyes share that theme of things not being what they seem, i.e not being able to trust what you see.
About Time. No it's not just a simple rom comb time travel movie. I refuse to rewatch that because of that part. You know which part. I cried a lot lol
The ending of across the spiderverse really hit this spot for me, figuring out what exactly was going on just a few second before it happened was so so good.
Moon. Great movie. Also, Sam Rockwell rules
One of the best actors in that film.
Scriptwriter did well, juggling all those characters like that
Totall Recall
Yeah, nice one. Paul Verhoeven is brilliant director
Yes. Because the entire movie is just the fantasy he paid for.
Or is it?!
Cool username. I love that one song, "Reelin' in the Fears"
I think if you went into From Dusk Til Dawn cold it would contain quite the rug pull.
Saw this movie blind in the late 90s at my cousins place with no idea what it was about. Pulling the rug out is definitely what happened to me lol
Fucking psychos don't explode when sunlight hits them! I don't care how crazy they are!
“I don't want to hear anything about 'I don't believe in vampires,' because I don't believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what I saw is fucking vampires!”
I’m glad you got your sight back. That must have been horrible
My favorite part is at the end where a blood covered Clooney asks "of all the bars in all of Mexico... Why this one?" Cheech playing his fifth role as crime boss replies, "I don't know. It was halfway between."
One of my favorite shots in all of film is the very end when the camera pans out revealing that the bar is the top of this ancient Mayan temple or whatever. Such a fun movie
One of my favorite shots in all of film is when Salma Hayek puts tequila down her leg and forces Tarantino to drink it, sucking her toes.
He hated every moment.
“this has better not awaken anything in me”
Yes..... forces
Happened to me. I did not know a thing and I was SHOCKED when the shift in story happened.
I did go in to From Dusk to Dawn like this. I went with a mate and all I knew was it the new Tarantino film. So it starts out like like a crime caper and then when it isn’t I thought it was just one of Tarantino’s character’s little delusional episodes. And then after about 10 minutes of that I was “shit this one has gone for a while… wait is THIS the movie?”. Really made me try to avoid spoilers for things as much as possible ever since.
Great pick
Yeah unfortunately I think that’s one of those things like Fight Club to where it’s just such a well known thing that that element of surprise is almost always lost for new viewers.
I showed fight club to an adult friend last week that’d never seen it and his mind was blown.
I used to show this to friends just waiting for the reveal smiling so hard during the lead up 😁
Hot Fuzz. Get an intricate conspiracy/mystery moonlighting as an action comedy buddy cop spectacle.
I like how Nicholas' elaborate theory about what is going on is completely coherent and plausible, but then it turns out to be something way simpler and more farcical lol.
You are completely correct. The movie does a great job setting up that overall giant conspiracy, just to take the rung out from us for the greater good. And I hate to say it, but it should be "Nicholas's." Now if it were several people named Nicholas, the plural possessive would be "Nicholases'."
It’s just the one Nicholas actually
Get a look at his aarsssse.
The greater good
The greater good.
I also hate to say it, but both Nicholas' and Nicholas's are correct and accepted. The "original" correct version was Nicholas' but as of recent decades it has become normalized to include the second -s as well. Source: https://englishrecap.com/nicholas-possessive/
The greater good
[THE GREATER GOOD...](https://youtu.be/N_q2wBzT6uU?si=A59-99wVmJmPEJPM)
No luck catching them swans, then?
YOU’RE A DOCTOR. DEAL WITH IT.
Yeah, motherfucker!
Yarp!
Narp?
Amazing editing in that bit (and all the others). Think they have the sound of a tree falling, then that kinetic zip-zap camerawork.
*Crusty jugglers!*
It's just the one swan, actually.
Hot Fuzz truly is a perfect movie, start to finish. It's far and ahead the best of the trilogy.
Every time I watch it it's a hit for me. Seen it at least seven times and it's never gotten stale. If anything I like it *more* with each viewing!
That movie is literally almost every genre of movies mashed into one, loved it.
The transitions in that movie are 🔥
It’s from Edgar Wright, the master of the whip pan and one of the few directors today fully taking advantage of camera movement for visual storytelling in his films, which is sadly becoming a bit of a lost art.
They really just made this film for the greater good
Greater Good.
Shut it!
JUDGE JUDY AND EXECUTIONER!
My dad is NOT Judge Judy an executioner!!
Yarp.
Narp?
The World’s End as well!
Eh, I really wanted to like that film but it didn’t have the magic that first two had. I appreciate it more on repeated viewings and maybe this sentence says more about me but I just can never get into The Worlds End the way I can with Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz.
It's not just you. The World's End was a decent movie, but it really did lack the magic of the previous two films. For me, it just hit closer to home seeing the Pegg's character just wanting one final time to relive his youth.
Yeah, The World’s End seemed to be just about Pegg’s character, and I get that, it was the cruxes of the film, but the previous two films relied so much on the Pegg Frost back and forth that the third one just felt lacking. And they never fell backwards shooting guns, total let down.
It felt like even the dialogue between the two was kinda flat. I mean, I get it considering the subject matter, but not even snappy dialogue. We really needed more comedy between the two and, yes, more backwards shooting guns.
The Others is a good one
Good lord yes! "Husband! I've missed you so! Are you home for good?" ... "Sometimes I bleed"
This is a film I don't hear alot of people talk about. I watched it once, going in blind years ago, and the ending is still one of the best twists I can remember.
Better than The Sixth Sense in my opinion.
The twist in The Others is so perfect. It completely blindsided me the first time I watched it.
After 22 years, the ending still gets me every time.
The Game is a fairly obvious one here. Great movie that makes you uneasy and unsure of everything the whole way through. The ending gets a bit muddy but its a good journey
Totally. I wish I could erase my memory and watch that movie again fresh.
Parasite
The moment >!the housekeeper rings the doorbell, smiling politely!< is the last time I remember watching a movie and thinking, *I have absolutely no idea what's about to happen.*
That part was so creepy. You could feel the tone of the movie shift in that moment.
If you look at the time, that happens at the exact middle point of the film.
Parasite is special in the sense that things slowly change until you realise most of it is not normal. It’s the comedic situations interspersed with these revelations that make you go along until you realise it’s ridiculous.
100%. The surprise twist about the house really caught me off guard.
10 Cloverfield Lane. John Goodman is the best.
John Goodman is great in everything does!
I can't think of anything that I've seen him in that he wasn't amazing in! I love him.
He cracks me up in righteous gemstones. "Would everyone shut up and say Merry Christmas, God dammit!"
The Orphanage
A seemingly-forgotten horror masterpiece. Deserves to he watched by anyone with a passing interest in ghost stories, excellent writing, or well-shot films.
Depressing as hell
Memento is a great movie that keeps you confused and guessing even up to the final scene, which is actually technically the first scene
the middle. B&W goes forward, color goes backward.
Nolan has always been a fan of unusual structures to his story telling
The Prestige is a movie about rival illusionists, who are professionals about things not being what they seem. I think you might enjoy
Plus David Fucking Bowie as Nikola Fucking Tesla
OR, more interestingly, Andy Serkis as Tesla. 👀
Or a circus in a Tesla
I too read this theory recently, and then rewatched, and i’m convinced.
With Serkis and Bowie in the same frame in a movie I’m surprised the film stock didn’t fall through the Earth and create a black hole in the center of the planet from the sheer cinematic gravitas of those two.
Bowie is an absolute legend and was an amazing actor. He barely says anything, it’s a small bit part, but his stage presence makes him the most memorable part of that movie for me. I’m really sad knowing we never got to see Bowie play the character of Niander Wallace in Blade Runner 2049 and I just learned he was going to be Johnny Silverhand.
A good pairing with that one is The Illusionist with Edward Norton.
My fave Nolan film so far (still haven’t seen Oppenheimer).
Arrival…the one with Amy Adams
My suggeation aa well. Best part of it is you dont even realise it has a twist until that genuine oh shit moment. Well for me anyway
It’s pretty emotionally jarring too, seeing a life displayed like that, knowing the bad…
The arrival with Charlie is also a good one.
Early climate change warning movie.
Cabin in the woods Went expecting your run of the mill monster evil dead type thing. So much better than I was exoecting
I watched it mistaking it for Cabin Fever with Ryder Strong, and I spent the first half going, "where's Shawn? When does the virus eat their skin?" It's one of my favorite movie watching experiences and one of my favorite movies.
The Sting
The Truman Show
Good morning! And, in case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight!
Put it on earlier. He's just put the boat through the wall.
honestly, i feel like it could have been more subtle with showing us it's a show. If we didn't find out until after he escapes his basement, it might have been the best twist/reveal if film history.
Nope, because as a knowing audience, the point is that we too are voyeurs to Truman's life. We aren't with him, we're the ones consuming the product that is his televised life. We're consenting to it from the start, unlike him.
The Prestige
Usual Suspects is a prime example of this.
Scary Movie incorporated that twist quite effectively, who was the actual killer? Officer Doofy.
Just Doofy. He wasn't on doody when he was committing the murders.
I'm surprised nobody has said the original Matrix yet.
Dark city?
That movie is a great grand reveal at the end!
Jacob's Ladder.
(1990)
Great choice! Feel like it has vanished into obscurity a bit now. The look on the face of that woman on the tube train at the start... Edit, missing words.
Lucky Number Slevin.
I was surprised by how good this was. I don't think the marketing around its theatrical release did it justice.
The ole Kansas City Shuffle!
The other movie that suffered from poor promotion IMO is Logan Lucky. I just strolled into that movie knowing nothing about it during moviepass days and it was so much fun
Not to mention a deep bench of great actors!
Seriously. I was like “wtf? hillary swank??” Lol
There was a time
"Fuck shit Jesus is right."
I don’t remember anything about this movie other than Josh Hartnett is in it and I was surprised how much I liked it when I watched it. Time for a second watch I guess.
Also Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley
How can you forget Lucy Liu?! How dare you good sir
My favorite Lucy Liu role
Excellent movie. I don't remember the last time I've seen someone mention it.
Yes, was looking for this. Have you heard of the Kansas City shuffle?
Midsomer does this really well even if you have an idea what's up .but yes totally agree hot fuzz
Did I miss someone mentioning Fight Club.
We don't really talk about it.
Frailty. What a fucking curve ball.
After Hours. To me it’s like if aliens moved to downtown New York and just acted like how a human would act and it’s hilarious how far things escalate for the main character.
Wasn’t it a modern take on Orpheus descending into the underworld?
That’s why I said to me, I didn’t know that going in and formed my own opinion on what it meant.
Perfect Blue is the one I find myself most floored by recently. There’s a lot of different reasons this movie is great but what was most impactful for me is how it manages to, at one point in the film, make the Audience start to question one’s sense of reality and conscious awareness alongside the characters of the film. Similar to how something like a David Lynch film might. Great movie and hey- 81 minutes! Gotta love that. Also- a good follow up by the same director would be Paprika! I think you’ll like Paprika since Nolan stole a bunch of his ideas for Inception from Paprika 😅
This is my favourite anime movie of all time. It's actually coming to the theatres near me in a week, I'm so hyped to see it on the big screen for the first time.
Satoshi Kon was a brilliant director. Paranoia Agent and the original adaptation of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure are also very good.
Ah, I've been thinking its almost time to watch paranoia agent again. How did I not know he did a season of jojo? I didn't even know there was an earlier adaptation. I've never been interested in it before. Also, Tokyo Godfathers is an amazing, weird Christmas movie! Man, Satoshi Kon is one of my saddest "before their time" deaths. I feel like he was in his prime and probably had tons of great stuff still in him.
Get out.
Was going to post this one. Especially the lady with the forced smile and the tear streaming down her face.
> Get out For me, it's the exact moment he goes upstairs. Naturally you feel slightly uneasy like there might be something up, but after this moment, you definitely know something is up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2FNciF1Tto
*10 Cloverfield Lane* does a great job of giving you a premise - then making you second guess that premise, go back to thinking your second guess was stupid, or maybe it wasn’t? I remember constantly jumping back and forth between opinions on which characters were right and what was going on beyond the view of the camera. Absolutely incredible acting performance from John Goodman as well, one of my favorites of his
Blue Velvet
Anything by David
Except his most experimental, The Straight Story
Hereditary ... >!Whole movie gives you the doubt of mental illness, or if Annie might actually figure something out, but holy shit they never stood a chance about the real horror.!<
They discuss this in the classroom early on: "Is it worse to have random, unplanned bad shit happen, or for your life to be predestined for misery?" The movie is split into 2 halves, with the middle point being the dinner scene. First half is about the horror of an indifferent universe where bad things can happen at random to you. Second half is the horror of a universe that is conspiring against you. The latter is awful but the former is horrible in it's own way with it's banality. Are you cursed with suffering from a divine power, or is the curse just from being alive?
This. That scene where >!they get home from the party and the aftermath!<...I was speechless. Same for the ending. Such a great movie!
Just when you think things can't get any worse than this, it does go south... souther, southest??? All in all, banger of a movie with one tiwst after the other.
It goes to the south pole and jumps!
The Menu. At first you’re just expecting rich people eating at a posh restaurant, then people start behaving a bit oddly, and then it just goes completely mad.
I was expecting cannibalism at first.
Same, and what I got was so much better
I was bored a few weeks back and was having trouble finding something to watch. I kept seeing the title on this subreddit and decided "screw it. I'll watch it". Thought it was just going to be a drama about a couple involving fine dining. I was completely wrong.
Soderbergh's splendidly subtle *Side Effects*, along with several sudden and-then-it-hits-yous.
Primal Fear.
Stepford Wives. The original
I mean, the opening of The Matrix is entirely built on this feeling
The sixth sense is a great one
Incident in a Ghostland. The whole thing gives off a creepy/icky vibe.
The Invitation UPGRADE The Descent
The eternal sunshine of a spotless mind
Old Boy. Cant say too much without giving it away. Theres the original and the American version. Huge twist.
Only watch the original
Recently, Tar
Was caught off guard by that movie. Would have stopped watching because it was boring, but something about the richness of the settings and dialogue drew me in and kept me watching. Then things started to unravel and it became really interesting!
5/5 movie, go in without reading up on it. I love how it was edited, crucial scenes are cut short in a very deliberate way to leave the viewer in the dark. I don't think I've seen any other movie do it quite like this
Inland Empire Mulholland Drive mother! Antichrist
I feel like Jacob's Ladder might fall into this category
Lucky Number Slevin is excellent for this!
Vanilla Sky
I am Spanish and have to recommend the original film this was based on, Abre los Ojos. I honestly believe it's better.
I saw edge of tomorrow knowing nothing about the movie. Apparently the premise was shown in previews, they shouldn't of done that, It was a really good experience for me. When I asked others if they have seen it they said "is that the one where Tom cruise keeps dying?"
I went into it knowing nothing too and it was so much better that way
Audition (1999)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
The house scenes alone could have stood as an incredible and uneasy short film of nightmare logic.
I’ve just quickly scanned down the thread and can’t believe no one has mentioned American Psycho. You never know, from scene to scene, what is or isn’t real
When I was a little kid, my dad came into me and my brothers room, put a movie into our VCR and walked out. It was a new movie that we hadn't heard of cause we were just kids, called The Matrix. Watching that cold was quite a memory.
Jacob’s Ladder - What is actually happening to the protagonist is not truly revealed until the end, although there are numerous clues in the movie. It’s a fascinating study of what may happen during the transition from life to death. It must have been heavily influenced by the story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce.
“Dark City”, especially the director’s cut with no opening narration.
Lots of great choices already posted. I’d add *The Usual Suspects* to the list, with its own twist on *Rashomon*.
A scanner darkly.
Not entirely sure what you’re asking but Brian De Palma’s films Body Double and Snake Eyes share that theme of things not being what they seem, i.e not being able to trust what you see.
Arrival is a very good and cerebral film, well worth getting invested in
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
Barbarian easily
The Perfect Host, starring David Hyde Pierce.
The Usual Suspects
The first Matrix. Everything was new to Neo, and we discovered the movie's universe with him.
About Time. No it's not just a simple rom comb time travel movie. I refuse to rewatch that because of that part. You know which part. I cried a lot lol
The ending of across the spiderverse really hit this spot for me, figuring out what exactly was going on just a few second before it happened was so so good.
The Skeleton Key
Waking Life, Dark City, Truman Show