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What comes to mind when you hear the phrase philosophical film The Matrix, most likely, an obvious example of a movieor franchisethat explores timeless. Share this Rating. Title La Jete 1962 8. Want to share IMDbs rating on your own site Use the HTML below. Essential Movies for the Student of Philosophy. What comes to mind when you hear the phrase philosophical film The Matrix, most likely, an obvious example of a movieor franchisethat explores timeless questions Who are we
What is reality Are our lives nothing more than elaborate simulations programmed by hyperintelligent supercomputers Okay, that last one may be of more recent vintage, but its closely related to that ancient cave allegory of Platos that asks us to consider whether our experiences of the world are nothing more than illusions emanating from a real world that lies hidden from view. Another influence on The Matrix is Rene Descartes, whose dualistic separation of consciousness and body receives the maximum of dramatic treatment. But The Matrix is only one film among a great many that concern themselves with classic problems of philosophy. In a 2. 01. 0 post for Mubi, Matt Whitlock compiled a list of 4. Essential Movies for a Student of Philosophy. Along with The Matrix, other films of the past couple decades get mentions The Truman Show the true home of Platos Cave in modern movies, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Heart Huckabees, Being John Malkovich, Inception. Also appearing on the list are classics like Akira Kurosawas Rashomon and Ingmar Bergmans The Seventh Seal which illustrates, Whitlock writes, The Angst of The Absurd. All of these films appear under the subheading Famous thought experiments or discussion of a famous philosophical problem. Another category on the list is Movies featuring a philosopher. The media savvy Slavoj iek gets two mentions, for 2. The Perverts Guide to Cinema and 2. Since Whitlock compiled the list, iek has received yet another feature length treatment 2. The Perverts Guide to Ideology. Astra Taylor, director of iek, also included him in 2. The Examined Life, alongside Peter Singer, Michael Hardt, Judith Butler, Sunaura Taylor, and Cornel West. After the documentaries, we have Movies with philosopher as a character, including Derek Jarmans Wittgenstein, with Clancy Chassay as the irascible logician, Roberto Rossellinis 1. Socrates, starring Jean Sylvere in the title role, and, of course, Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure, with Tony Steedman as So Crates. The final three subcategories in Whitlocks list are Movies featuring the ideas of particular philosophers, Movies based on Novels written by famous philosophers, and Other. In the last basket, Whitlock places the PBS string theory documentary The Elegant Universe and Finnish performance artist M. A. Numminens bizarre adaptation of Wittgensteins Tractatus. Whitlock narrows the field by ruling out movies that make you think deep crazy stuff or those with some new existential twist on common topics. Instead, he sticks to those films that seem to be incarnations of classic philosophical thought experiments or movies that have a major philosophical problem as a main theme that include topics that a serious student of philosophy needs to understand. Like most such lists, this one doesnt claim to be definitive, and the four years since its compilation have produced several films that might warrant inclusion. Yet another reference from 2. William G. Smiths Socrates and Subtitles A Philosophers Guide to 9. Thought Provoking Movies from Around the Worldcasts a wider net. But Whitlocks list seems to me a very useful starting point for thinking about the relationship between philosophy and film. Below, see the first ten films on the list Zizek Examined Life 2. Derrida 2. 00. 2The Ister 2. The Perverts Guide To Cinema 2. Being In The World 2. Bill And Teds Excellent Adventure 2. When Nietzsche Wept 2. The Last Days Of Immanuel Kant 1. The Alchemist Of Happiness 2. Take a look at his full list here, and by all means, offer your own suggestions for films that fit the criteria in the comments section below. Related Content Wittgenstein Watch Derek Jarmans Tribute to the Philosopher, Featuring Tilda Swinton 1. Watch The Reality of the Virtual 7. Minutes of Pure Slavoj iek 2. Watch The Idea, the First Animated Film to Deal with Big, Philosophical Ideas 1. Daniel Dennett and Cornel West Decode the Philosophy of The Matrix in 2. Film. Two Animations of Platos Allegory of the Cave One Narrated by Orson Welles, Another Made with Clay. The Drinking Party, 1. Film Adapts Platos Symposium to Modern Times. Download 1. 00 Free Philosophy Courses and Start Living the Examined Life. Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC. Follow him at jdmagness. Watch Hercules Reborn Online Freeform. Watch The Elephant Man Online Mic. Places Faces North Norfolk 0. May by H2. Creative Media. Places Faces North Norfolk 0. May Published on Apr 2. Places Faces North Norfolk 0.