In your opinion, what movie really nails The Human Condition?

[Lindsey]

Little Children is on now (I saw it when it first came out)and it's right up there with the best of them.

[nolabear]

1. I kinda like Zorba the Greek.

It'a a little "noble savage" but still, appreciating the sheer messiness of life is a great theme.

[Lindsey]

2. I'll have to check that one out. It's always been one that I've

been meaning to watch.

[JCMach1]

14. The book is better... one of my favorites

Kazantzakis is also a good LEFTY author...

[begin_within]

3. El Norte, Au Hasard Balthazar, Tokyo Story, Ladri di Biciclette, Psycho, Salt of the Earth

[Lindsey]

4. El Norte is right up there for me too. n/t

[Bucky]

5. Just about any Robert Altman movie (but especially Nashville)

Well, the one about Hollywood was kinda dumb. But his loose form type of films really catch the randomness and unfocus of reality.

[deutsey]

12. I agree about Nashville

Amazing and unsettling film that was really prescient in its depiction of the shifting political wind in America in the mid-'70s.

[CBGLuthier]

6. Harvie Krumpet

Best animated short of 2004. I saw it along with the other nominees and knew it had to win.

You can watch the entire film at youtube. It's a little over 20 minutes long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouyVS6HOFeo

[mitchum]

7. Happiness

[unpossibles]

10. I love that movie. Good call

I like how every single character is simultaneously awful yet you also can occasionally sympathize/empathize with. No one is a cardboard cutout easily reduced to "good" or "bad" just like real life, although some sway more one way than the other.

[Kat45]

17. That was a good movie.

Good to see it mentioned; I don't think many people saw it.

[MrScorpio]

8. Avatar

Humans suck

[raccoon]

9. THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? nt

[unpossibles]

11. the Education of Charlie Banks was surprisingly good

I say that because it was directed by Fred Durst, and it made me conflicted because I formerly had no respect for him. It's a bit simplistic and/or obvious at times, but was really good.

There are others, but I am not awake yet so may come back to this later.

[Lindsey]

13. I saw Nashville a long time ago when I didn't even know what

The Human Condition meant. I'll need to watch it again. Also, I've heard a lot about Happiness. There are so many others like The Grapes of Wrath.

[WildEyedLiberal]

42. Fred Durst as in the guy from Limp Bizkit?

Directed a movie? Whaaaa??

[unpossibles]

44. yes. I know it's crazy talk but I left it feeling this total confusion

Maybe film is just his medium, because it certainly isn't music

[cleveramerican]

15. Falling Down w/ Michael Douglas

Every guy can relate like crazy.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

16. Save the Tiger

[cloudbase]

18. Bridges at Toko-ri.

Life doesn't always have a happy ending.

[Brother Buzz]

19. A Thousand Clowns

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. Fire, Walk With Me.

Also, The Deer Hunter.

[Steely_Dan]

21. I Have To Agree...

with "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"

I would add:

Taxi Driver

[DerekG]

22. The Seventh Seal

The silence of God.

The prevalence of evil.

The preponderance of suffering.

And the only redemptive act we can make.

[hayu_lol]

23. An old outstanding film...

How Green Was My Valley

coal mining in Wales

[Lindsey]

24. Oh yea, I forgot How Green was my Valley. Wow. n/t

[kwassa]

25. the original "All Quiet on the Western Front"

What war does to us.

[applegrove]

26. The Sound of Music. Seriously LOL!

[mikeSchmuckabee]

27. Johnny Got His Gun

[Raffi Ella]

28. Amélie,

Bridget Jones's Diary, Alice in Wonderland.

[tigereye]

31. Amelie is a wonderful film - good choice!

[Raffi Ella]

34. it's one of my all time fave's.

:)

[avicenne]

29. Magnolia

magnolia nails the human condition. As does Mutiny on the Bounty, - the
Brando version. As does An Unfinished Life, - I love that movie, I really do.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

37. Welcome to DU!

:toast: :party:

[tigereye]

30. Harold and Maude? ;)

Bergman and Fellini films?

[S n o w b a l l]

32. Crash n/t

[Raffi Ella]

33. I saw that for the first time just the other night.

I felt devastated afterward.

[klm55500]

35. children of men

[Forkboy]

36. Strange Brew

[Orrex]

40. I could crush your head. Like a nut. But I won't.

[Tikki]

38. I made it through the '70s...but, when I watch..

"Looking For Mr. Goodbar" I cry like a baby and I think the tears come from a profound confusion.


Tikki

[Manifestor_of_Light]

39. The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005)

Starring Vanessa Redgrave.

About family and heritage from Persia to the United States. I recommend it to everybody I know.

www.greatomar.com

[Lindsey]

41. I definetly would put Crash up there. To me it was exceptionally

deep but I know people who didn't get it the way I did. However, I also know a whole lot of people who did.

[BlooInBloo]

43. My sig.

[Capn Sunshine]

45. The Big Lebowski

seriously, dude.

[JTG of the PRB]

46. I'm gonna go with Idiocracy.

Because there will always, ALWAYS be stupid people, and when those people get into positions of power... Well, we all get a little dumber.

[Enrique]

47. Crimes and Misdemeanors

by Woody Allen. Come to think of it, Hannah and her Sisters too. I'm not even a huge Woody Allen fan, but he's made some pretty Human Conditiony movies.

[pokerfan]

48. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

[hyphenate]

49. Oh, too many to name

Soylent Green, I think. Or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[jobycom]

50. An odd choice, but "City of Angels" did for me.

I hated the Wim Wenders contraption (yeah, I know, everyone else loves it, but we're talking about me now). For some reason the hokie Nicholas Cage thing worked for me, or it did at the very end. Most of it I thought was pretty manipulative, but the very last scene, where he has given up everything to live as a human, and then lost everything as a human, and then steps out onto the beach and just enjoys the feel of the world despite all his pain--that was the human condition to me. I've never seen it done better.

So maybe that was more one scene than a whole movie. :)

[HughBeaumont]

51. The Truman Show.

A creature of habit performing the same tasks day in, day out. Cannot stretch beyond his island because of well-engineered fear that people put in him. Doesn't catch on to his "life's" consumerist message or the obvious/not so obvious product placements. Steered away from the one he loves due to circumstances "beyond his control" and settles.

True, the movie requires massive suspension of disbelief, but the metaphor is strong.

[Lindsey]

52. I really loved The Truman Show too and exactly for the

metaphor(plus I thought the acting was outstanding). I'll have to Netflix City of Angels to watch it again. It's amazing how I can see a movie when it first comes out and don't appreciate it as much as I do when I see it years later.

[BlooInBloo]

53. Did they ever movie-ize No Exit?

If not, they should, so I can submit that as my response here.

[TrogL]

54. It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world