I know it's 4chan and I know we're on about 12 layers of irony, but without a shred of cynicism, what's the closest thing to a spiritual experience you've had with a film?
The Thin Red Line and Enter the Void.
Idk how to define that. But Jacob's ladder and Eraserhead made me question my sanity so I suppose that counts
>>219199861Don't a bunch of animals get killed in this Mexican shit? Fuck this literally evil junkie crap.
getting high and watching gummo with a friend as a kid
>>219199861The airplane explosion in airforce one.
Only Tarkovsky's films have given me a spiritual high.>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vvdtaaprzw
I can't think of any film that feels like a spiritual experience. Beyond The Black Rainbow and the ending from 2001 A Space Odyssey feels like an acid trip, so there's that.
The Passion of the Christ
Probably the fountain on first watch. On subsequent rewatches it kind of feels like this:https://youtu.be/rjg-AyTHGcY
>>219199861Baraka
The Tree of Life
>>219199861Legend 1985 tangerine dreams version while drunk, high and on magic truffles.Second best was the Redline while high
>>219202428Movie going through a character's life from birth to childhood to loss of innocence made me feel genuine anguish, as though my chest would burst.
>>219199861That one movie in black and white that starts with god cutting himself open
>>219199861watching 90s edgy movies as a teen while being stoned counts? thing is, you quickly move on from all that
>>219202494Begotten is pure unadulterated kikeslop
>>219199861Interstellar.
Not a christfag but Silence kinda made me have a spiritual experience about why people are spiritual if you get my meaning. Also Paths of Glory with that god-tier final scene.Honorable mention to Arcane S1, watched the entirety of that shit while high as a kite and honestly still believe it’s one of the greatest works of filmmaking art of all time.
>>219199861Snow Piercer. Not even joking. I picked up on the god/jesus allegory as soon as they put doubt on the existence of the Wilford. What I really liked about it is the way it used a train to be a metaphor for civilization. Since the bronze age every society has been in competition basically to avoid becoming slaves of other civilizations and while the specifics have changed slightly we are still on the same track.
>>219202494Anon, Prometheus was in color you big silly
>>219199861Stalker I guess, expected boring slog where nothing happens for 3 hours and I got exactly that, but somehow it worked and I was deeply engrossed for the whole time. Alternatively Scorsese's Silence made me ponder on some spiritual issues.Holy Mountain is a funny one, because for 1/3 of the movie I had a feeling I'm watching some disturbing occult film, for 1/3 that I'm watching some hippie boomer self-help slop and for 1/3 that I'm watching gigantic comedic shitpost. I guess all of them are true at the same time.Kenneth Anger's films, especially Lucifer Rising made me feel some spiritual angst, but I'm almost sure that's not exactly what your looking for.
>>219199861Matrix opening day in the theater. Was high as fuck and let GF pick the movie, she only picked it because she wanted Keanu. I had no clue what it was about, never even saw the trailer.
>>219202428Probably this one.
>>219199861EVERYTHING WILL BE OK by DON HERTZFELDTi'm not sure i would call it spiritual experience though. but certainly a psychological one, i remember feeling completely overwhelmed, i had to stop the video at some point
>>219199861 (OP)In recent memory I felt something powerful from this shot in Cobra Verde, I'm not sure I can put it in to words but I felt something. I don't think it's even that great of a movie overall but this shot and the ending scene really stuck out to me.>>219203550seconding this, I can't remember the name of which Hertzfeldt film in particular did it but looking it up it was probably the ending of this one.
>>219199945 You’re not crazy, OP. Tarkovsky legit feels like you’re mainlining metaphysics for 3 hours. It’s not even about plot, it’s like he tunes you to some frequency and just leaves the camera there until your brain starts vibrating with it.That levitation scene in *Mirror* and the ending of *Stalker* aren’t “cool scenes,” they feel like transmissions. The way he lingers on water, wind, fire - it’s like the elements themselves are the protagonists. Other directors use long takes as flexes; Tarkovsky uses them like prayers.Closest I’ve gotten outside him is maybe the final stretch of *Andrei Rublev* with the bell, or Malick when he’s not completely up his own ass. But even then it’s different. Tarkovsky feels Orthodox in the bones - suffering as revelation, slowness as purification.Most movies distract you. His movies strip you down until you’re just sitting there with the void. And somehow that feels good.
Bo Burnham: INSIDE on acid and mushrooms several times over the course of a year. With and without alternates I’ve watched the Special about 65 times all the way through. But for four years I disassociated and wrote a book about the Special. The gist is that I came to believe that Bo is the second coming of Christ, here to heal the world with comedy, influencing things in the background of the zeitgeist. The Special is designed to produce this sort of belief in people predisposed to it, while protecting them from other schizophrenic symptoms. I’ve now started going to church again and am weaned off of Bo, having moved on to the real thing in Jesus.
>cynicism is le BADGo fuck yourself OP
>>219203782bro stop using chat gtp
>>219199861Lol you still think it's ironyMy man the people here are just retarded
Passion of the Christ for obvious reasonsTree of LifeA Ghost Story
OP is one of those retards who thinks one low-effort post is enough. Does anyone actually want to talk about powerful movie experiences? I'm not posting any otherwise.>>219203660https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ig3J2AJbac
>>219202428>>219204165Tree of Life is so goated, what else should I watch for this vibe?
>>219199861Mishima maybe?
>>219202428This for me. It affected me in a way I was not remotely expecting. I'm an older man now than I was when I first watched it and if anything it hit me even harder on rewatch. I don't understand the kind of person who gets nothing out of it. I can't help but think they made no effort to actually watch the film.
star wars
>>219204257I can't watch Malick, he might as well be Bollywood or from sentinel island. Totally different sensibilities. I think he's for people who haven't seen a lot of movies
>>2192044160/10
>>219204416i agree. days of heaven was gorgeous but my appreciation for it stops there.>>219204493he sucks balls faggot
>>219199945>>219203782>>219203117Based
>>219204493>>219204514I went too far with the few movies comment. There are just different tastes in film, it's true. There's something far too indulgent about his visuals, when other directors will give even the best shots just a few seconds if the experience is better that way. It's really like a different art form entirely. If feature films are scenes arranged to form a sequence, Malick is a series of dioramas that all have their 30 seconds or 60 seconds for the audience to contemplate them. All the dioramas are themed to an overall story but there isn't really a strong connection or feeling of movement towards the conclusion.
>>219204779he has an eye for certain but he should be a cinematographer, not a director.
>>219202428this
>>219199861>12 layers of irony>not realizing everyone here is actually just retarded
>>219204845he's 82, time to retire. His films will be controversial for years though
all tree of life enjoyers should check out this film, Woman in the Dunes>>219204874kek
>>219204936oops wrong pic
>>219199861Donnie Darko did things to me
>>219204936been on my list for a while, but I haven't watched it yet
>>219207014it's kino in every frame and its about life
The Matrix when I was 12.
>>219210503for me it's the animatrix when I was 15
I felt a transcendent level of joy at the cinema during the Britney/Everytime montage in Spring Breakers. True story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im_WUnSYa2E
2001 a space oddyseyeyes wide shutThe tree of lifeBatman v SupermanMulholland driveBlade runner
>>219199945seconding. Mirror and Solaris
>>219199861apart from some mentions here around Tarkowski which I all share it was movies by Kurosawa, not the samurai ones, Nora Inu and Dreams.
>>219202428>generic coming-of-age film with random nature shots and dinosaur cgi
>>219199861the holy mountain is not really that inaccessible and while still a great movie, it ends in a nothing-burger with its meta humor and ZOOM BACK CAMERA lineif you want the spiritual experience watch El Topo, still unbeaten to this day in this field
>>219199881I unironically didnt know if i had a bad dream or watched a movie while seeing jacobs ladder. Definitely was the weirdest feeling i ever had after a movie as reddit as it sounds>>219199874Watched enter the void the first time when i was 14 and didnt get it. Watched it when i was 22 again with a friend totally stoned when i was still a disgusting pothead and when the movie was over we sat outside nect to each other for an hour, smoking a joint and we did not say a single word to each other like we just escaped death.
>>219199918>>219202449>>219202634>>219203145>>219203881>>219212475OP should've clarified with the caveat that being under the influence doesn't count
koyaanisqatsi in an almost empty kinoplex
>>219199861Not that shaggy dog story of a movie OP
