Has any certain book or movie changed you?

Started by Hiraku November 1st, 2008 5:55 AM
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Seriously. Have you ever read a book, saw a movie, heard a song, or met someone who changed you perspective on the world? When I met a girl named Klára in Hungary, she told me to watch a movie called Another Way. I watched and the amazing way they expressed their feeling moved me. From then on, I was a better person. Tell me about your experience.

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Yes... the Sword of Truth series... it has such a great message of how it is better to have free will than to follow others blindly...
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Gattaca, the movie, really made me appreciate life anew. For those of you who've seen it, you know what I mean.

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"A View from Saturday" was a book I had to read for school...don't even remember the author. I don't know exactly what changed, but after reading that, my perspective on a few things changed a bit.

That's really the only noteworthy book or movie...I'm not a big "critical thinker" with books and certainly not movies lol
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Interesting subject.

OK... some years ago I read Bambi (the _original_, not Disney's). It changed my view on nature and gave me some insight as to why I am who I am. At that time it, along other two works, helped me find and define my primary fears and expectations.

Then I read Asimov's Foundation saga. Also some other of his minor works, but I no longer remember which ones (borrowed books). After reading those I think I learned to expect different things from people.

Another book, that changed my perspective of things general despite not being exactly a narration, was Hawking's History of Time. All that spaghettized cosmonaut thing, I guess that left a mark on me. And the way he explained that science stuff, really made simple.

As for movies, I don't think I've ever watched a movie that changed me. Maybe the Robocop: Prime Directive miniseries, digging deeper on some subjects Asimov left open; and more recently, some sci-fi works (in particular Dark Angel) gave me a more dark and realistic view of our world, but beyond that, I dunno.
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Last year in 9th grade, we read in my English class the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. The book upset my greatly with its content, although many other students enjoyed it. It changed my outlook on certain things as well as certain people. I won't read it again, needless to say I want to become upset.
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Last year in 9th grade, we read in my English class the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. The book upset my greatly with its content, although many other students enjoyed it. It changed my outlook on certain things as well as certain people. I won't read it again, needless to say I want to become upset.
Holy crap, man, I was going to write that. I just read this book today and part of yesterday, and so far it's helped me. I wouldn't say that it's changed me yet; it's too soon for a book to have extreme effects on me. Though, it's made my views and opinions clear, and has given me a path to follow in my own life. I'm amazed at its content and it's helping me write my own book. <33

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Has the content itself changed me? I don't really think so. There have been certain books/movies/songs that I become totally absorbed in, and provide a nice distraction for me (Harry Potter, Star Trek: Voyager, etc..), but that's about it ]: I guess I haven't read any of the really impacting books, or if I have I just wasn't moved by them D:

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Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse. Certainly a book I can say gave me a different perspective of things.

Also, the film The Thing. It certainly reduced my sleeping schedule to compulsive sights under my bed, at least for a few weeks.
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The movie Easy Rider completely changed my life. Like the core values in that movie are so powerful, the need for freedom, the road to understanding what true freedom is, and the plight of those who seek freedom face. That really changed me. It furthered my belief in freedom and made me hate those who oppress freedom and certain inalienable rights even more.

In literature, I think A Tale of Two Cities furthered my belief that the needs of the many out weight the needs of the one. Thus I am big on the whole self sacrifice thing. I sacrifice my own happiness for the happiness of others.

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Twilight, Stephanie Meyer. I was hypocritical at first. But I love it. It's like you KNOW the characters. I'm starting New Moon now. I'm excited.
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I say Twilight aslo. I was reading and I swear I felt myself get really cold. Those books have powers! I'm seeing the movie this weekend.

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Seriously, Lord of the Rings. Both books and movies completely changed my perspective on fantasy and adventure. Yeah I have always been a fan of those genre's but Lord of the Rings was such a good mix of all and it really made you feel as if the group had travelled so far and accomplished something along the way. It was geat.
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1984, The Shawshank Redemption, The Matrix, Fight Club, and a few other films and books all come to mind. They all further and pass the notion of subjectivity and the notion that only so many things, if not only one thing, is of pertinence in life. That everything else is filler, that 2 + 2 could equal 5 (1984), that if one believes they can have an effect on anyone (The Shawshank Redemption), that objectivity could be less objectivity and more subjectivity (The Matrix), and that you aren't who you think you are, nor is anyone else (Fight Club).

I mean, I've had those contemplations before seeing the films... but those films just opened up me and my schools of thoughts more.

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A book called The Bible. I recommend this to everyone :) if you want to know more just ask

Amen to that. lol

I don know if this counts, but music has made a huge impact on my life.

(I don't know how many times I've made this point, but I never get tired of typing this)

The reason I love and respect Metallica so much is the theme they have in their music. The album St. Anger connected deeply in my life. Some songs on the album, like Frantic, St. Anger, Invisible Kid, My World, The Unnamed Feeling, and All Within My Hands connected in my life in a very dark way. In a way the album itself saved me from suicide. Metallica made the problems I was facing clear to the world. However due to the album's technical failure to get love from most fans, it remains a problem today.

...And Justice For All is an album that influences me whenever I write lyrics. The Song One influenced me to write an anti-war balled that I posted in the Poetry section a couple monthes ago. You may remember it if you read it, I titled it Letter From No Man's Land.

Music itself is the main influence on my work.

If we wanna discuss out of music influences, I recently wrote a song entitled Witch Trial (still in Poetry) which was influenced by Arthur Miller's play called The Crucible. The play was written to make the communist paranoia of the 1950's known.
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