Movies and such thhat sanitea question?

[CODE-D]

What are some movies or books or other things that have warped your thinking and made you question reality, sanity, fears, what you know/dont know etc and such.
Me
Evangelion + me, age 14 = depressed existentialism
+
The matrix + me, age 16 = Mind crushed + paranoia + depressed existentialism

 

[Sixcess]

Fight Club.

I'd say more, but the first rule...

 

[Casual Shinji]

Neither movies nor books.

Just high school.

 

[DoPo]

Fight Club.

I'd say more, but the first rule...

Dude, stop breaking the second rule.

(also, this)

But mainly

Robert Sheckley + me, age 10-12 = questioning the world

Lots more too, especially sci fi, but that would be the easiest to name influence. Oh, and another point - don't read philosophical quotes at around that age - I had a book (two, actually) with these things and I had read them at least twice by the age of 11. They did made me question reality, sanity and such. By the time the Matrix rolled around I thought it was a cool execution but ultimately, a concept I was all too familiar with. But the bullet time was great.

Oh, and since you did mention an anime and you are asking about sanity:

Akira + me, age 8-9 = nightmares of blob monsters and the military unleashing them.

 

[Vuliev]

Haven't really made me question sanity or anything (though some have left me in a "whooaaaa dude" kind of state for a few days), but Nausicaa of the West Wind left me with a permanent fear and intense dislike of mushrooms/fungi.

 

[Esotera]

The Matrix pretty much blew my mind when I first saw it. Also, The Animatrix. The most recent film that made me question things is probably Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Well, can't think of any that had that effect on me, but I know someone that's worried they are in The Truman Show.

 

[Antari]

What the bleep do we know, Down the rabbit hole. Its a good watch, I don't know about sanity. I've never come across any.

 

[Wierdguy]

There was a book I read in middle school whose name I cant remember... was about humanity beeing about to be extinct because fertility rates had almost dissapeared and because in the early days people had been forced to have sex almost all the time so AIDS had wiped out a few billion as well, and then something about a god in a chicken form leading the protagonist through some seriously strange stuff like a giant potato.

Didnt finish it because I started having some seriously depressing thoughts while I read it. Finally I just desided to quit before it got worse.

 

[IamQ]

Nothing actually. Most strange ideas I come up with myself. Like the idea that I can't die.

 

[CODE-D]

Well, can't think of any that had that effect on me, but I know someone that's worried they are in The Truman Show.

Oh yeah, if you wanna be paranoid of everyone you know and what theyre are doing when not around you, the truman show is the movie.
They should remake that in a more horrifying way, id totally watch. They downplay it as somewhat comedic in the jim carrey film but thats fucking terrifying.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

The title of this thread is the only thing I have read that made me question my sanity.

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

I started reading H.P. Lovecraft when I was about 9, but it hasn't had any effect on me at all.

NO EFFECT! YOU HEAR ME? NE EFFECT!

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fthagn!

 

[smearyllama]

I've started reading some cyberpunk stuff recently, and it's gotten me wondering if the world we live in is slowly becoming somewhere between cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk. It's also made me want to get into programming.

 

[MalkavianLunatic]

H.P. Lovecraft warped my mind when I was a kid and made me wonder about what's hiding in the depths of the ocean or out in the stars. So now I have a weird dread of those places.

And recently, the movie: "The Divide" just sort of crushed the little remaining faith I had in humanity.

 

[Mikeyfell]

Idiocracy is the reason I'm not having kids.


People are getting stupider.
And they're having kids!
And those kids are going to grow up stupid too!
And they're going to have kids!
And the hypothetical smart children are going to (Hypothetically) interact with these people and the intelligence is going to get sucked into the crushing void of ignorance and stupidity until this generation's average is their generation's genius.

It's scary as hell!

 

[GiantRaven]

Well, can't think of any that had that effect on me, but I know someone that's worried they are in The Truman Show.

How could somebody think they're the star of a TV show centered around their life whilst watching a movie about such an occurrence? If they were in that situation the why would a film essentially detailing the events even exist? How would they have access to watch it?

The whole idea is ludicrous.

 

[Donnie Restad]

Neither movies nor books.

Just high school.

THIS.

But for me, it's the Ricky Gervais show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6foP5QiFTVA

I can't help but think Karl's a genius, but then everybody makes fun of him.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Well, can't think of any that had that effect on me, but I know someone that's worried they are in The Truman Show.

How could somebody think they're the star of a TV show centered around their life whilst watching a movie about such an occurrence? If they were in that situation the why would a film essentially detailing the events even exist? How would they have access to watch it?

The whole idea is ludicrous.

Didn't say it was a clever person.