Have you ever found deep meaning in a movie with little meaning?

[Rising Phoenix]

Zombie Land


"We are all orphans in zombie land"

"Without other people, we are just zombies"

[frogmarch]

1. Casualty

Not sure about deep meaning, but I could identify with the character named Eva.

Eva Luckes: Nurse Bennett, what are you doing?
Ethel Bennett: A needle thorocentesis - none of the doctors are available.
Eva Luckes: Nurse Bennett, what do you think you are doing?

[KG]

2. All You Zombies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1m1hc48X4

[struggle4progress]

3. Yeah, I once cooked up a lengthy gnostic exegesis of "Blade Runner" --

the poor replicants being the hapless victim creations of an imperfect and disobedient lesser god

[Lionel Mandrake]

4. "The Cabinet of Caligari" (1962)

This movie suffers by comparison with the classic "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari" (1920). But I find deep meaning in the (admittedly shallower) remake.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055819/

Here is the "plot summary" by Ed Sutton:

"Jane's car breaks down and she makes her way to a nearby estate, owned by a mysterious man named Caligari. Soon she finds that she has become a virtual prisoner, and none of the strange inhabitants of the estate are willing or capable of helping her escape. Caligari reveals himself as a passive pervert, showing her filthy pictures, spying on her, and trying to make her talk about intimate details of her life. She attempts to free herself by the only means at her disposal."

But that is only part of the plot. It will turn out that Jane is an unreliable narrator. What she thinks is happening to her (described above) is not what is really happening. (This is quite different from the 1920 movie, which is deliberately ambiguous, so that the truth is never revealed.)

Don't we all have distorted views of the world? Are we all that different from Jane in this respect?

[Rising Phoenix]

5. I wrote my midterm on that for my advantgard film class

Great friggin film

[csziggy]

6. 42

After all, that is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. What more do you need?

[Dr Morbius]

7. Would anyone like to discuss the socialist/Marxist symbolism in...

...the Wizard of Oz?

And there's an awesome line in the mediocre The Karate Kid:

Lesson (on balance) not only for karate. Lesson also for life!

And another great line in The Next Karate Kid:

Never trust a spiritual leader who can't dance.

[undeterred]

8. Dirty Dancing

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

[Enrique]

9. depends what I'm smoking

if it's good enough, I'll find deep meaning in most infomercials.

[Hawkeye-X]

10. UHF.

Half-baked when I'm stoned with good KB

[mitchum]

11. I'm big on a Marxist reading of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"