Movies that make you think

[Viriko]

I like movies which force to think of life, force to have a look at the things globally and in details at the same time. About Good and Evil, cowardice, meanness, treachery, also nobleness, honesty, purity. Not about a maniac who was beaten in his childhood, whom good guys search for. And about simple people who was beaten by life not just once, who was humbled, humiliated, abased but who grew like good people, found powers to forgive and maked all for other people don't suffer like they did.

Name me just one of such movies because I know a lot of them in Russian but nothing of ones in English. Maybe aren't they showed?

[margaine]

Viriko, I thought your post warranted its own thread because your question is beyond the scope of "what movie have you seen most recently." I hope you don't mind the title I made for the thread.

[Viriko]

Oops! Ok. The movie "Babusya" (rus. Бабуся, This is the word with the Russian hypocoristic, endearment suffix, means an old woman - like Granny). It's a movie about an old woman who was very lonely. Her relitives sold her house, a husband of her daughter turned out from their flat after her daughter's death. And with a help of a journalist-woman she started a long travalling around her relitives who can give her shelter. Everybody finds pretexts not to take her although she nursed most of them who sold her house, who took money, who bought flats for it. She helped them but now nobody needs her. Just one family (father-her grandson, his wife and their dumb daughter of eight years old) took her. They arrived from the place where the war was. The little girl finished to speack when the bomb exploded next to their house. They moved after it there where they had no the house but where they also had no bombs. They lived in very bad place, a log hut because they had no money for a good house. The man and his wife spoke and the old woman heard their talk. She understood she will be a burden to them and left the house at night. Just the little girl saw how she left, the old woman said to the girl: "I was called by the angel for a way". I mentioned this because it was almost the only her words for all movie. It was night, it was the Russian winter, -25 degrees, not less. And the girl went and woke up her parents and said: "she went away, she will be frozen". They were so glad she started to speak and didn't hear her words but they understand after and the man runs to look for his grandmother. At that time the old woman falled into memorizes: summer, her old house, little grandchildren - time and place where everybody loved her and named her "babusya". And she hears a cry from afar, like through a dream: "Babusya!" And she turned at.
And I still can't understand she died or not.

[Wishpergins Sins]

Hi everyone. I never saw the movie Babusya but really got more interested after this description.
As for the general question "what movies make you thing" It can be a huge list spanning from the movie adaptation of Danielle’s Steel Zoya to the more recent "the soloist" usually the more human a movie is the more it makes my grey cells work.

[Winifred]

Great thread, Viriko, and it's good to see you back with us! I love movies with heart and movies that make me think. Not too many mainstream American movies do, but, of recent movies, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button did, even with the magic.

*drums fingers, thinking of more movies that made me think*

[Shoolekly]

I like The Incredibles and think its a good cartoon movie about superheroes, but its far from a top 25 list of sci-fi movie greats. There were many more cartoon sci-fi movies that beat the cape off The Incredibles, like Titan A.E. even.