Hello! I have chosen five movies that I searched through Netflix to find. I have seen one of these before but I wanted to include it because it's a really fun movie to TALK about and I have no one else I know who has actually watched it.
So, anyways, I'll post some descriptions in spoilers in my next post really quick in case people want to read about them before they vote. But mostly because I picked these fairly quickly in the middle of the day a few days ago & I don't really remember what any of them are.
1922 is based on Stephen King's 131-page story telling of a man's confession of his wife's murder. The tale is told from from the perspective of Wilfred James, the story's unreliable narrator who admits to killing his wife, Arlette, with his son in Nebraska. But after he buries her body, he finds himself terrorized by rats and, as his life begins to unravel, becomes convinced his wife is haunting him.
The Imposter
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WARNING: This movie is much more fun if you have no idea what it is about going in. But proceed if you wish
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Nicholas was 13 the day he disappeared (June 13, 1994). He would have been 16 and 8 months when he was reported found in Spain (October 7, 1997)... In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappears without a trace from San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later he is found alive, thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems. The boy bears many of the same distinguishing marks he always had, but why does he now have a strange accent? Why does he look so different? And why doesn't the family seem to notice these glaring inconsistencies? It's only when an investigator starts asking questions that this strange tale takes an even stranger turn...
OtherLife
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A brilliant software engineer must reassert control over her revolutionary neurotechnology in order to heal her comatose brother and prevent her business partner using it to imprison the minds of millions.
Super Dark Times
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A harrowing but meticulously observed look at teenage lives in the era prior to the Columbine High School massacre, SUPER DARK TIMES marks the feature debut of gifted director Kevin Phillips, whose critically acclaimed 2015 short film "Too Cool For School" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Zach (Owen Phillips) and Josh (Charlie Tahan) are best friends growing up in a leafy Upstate New York suburb in the 1990s, where teenage life revolves around hanging out, looking for kicks, navigating first love and vying for popularity. When a traumatic incident drives a wedge between the previously inseparable pair, their youthful innocence abruptly vanishes. Each young man processes the tragedy in his own way, until circumstances grow increasingly complex and spiral into violence. Phillips dives headlong into the confusion of teenage life, creating evocative atmosphere out of the murky boundaries between adolescence and adulthood, courage and fear, and good and evil.
Other People
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A struggling comedy writer in New York City (Jesse Plemons) returns home to Sacramento to care for his dying mother.
The Imposter is my favorite documentary EASILY, one of my favorites in general. It's one of my favorite movies to sit down and watch with people so I can see their reactions. I've turned a handful of people here onto it so it might not win since some of us have seen it but it's fantastic. I'd be super down to watch it for the 1293th time but I'm not gonna vote it just cause I'd rather do something new
Super Dark Times keeps popping up all over Facebook ads and looks intruiging, I haven't looked into what it's actually about at all though and I'll probably keep it that way. Other People sounds good and Jesse Plemons is great. 1922 seems solid. Otherlife I know nothing about
Super Dark Times > Other People > Otherlife > 1922 is what I'm voting and my order of preference
