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Movies/Scenes
Representing Alternate Realities or Illusion/Reality Dialectic
- Shrek (2001)
- Being John Malkovich
(1999)
- Craig finds a portal that leads into John Malkovich's
brain, where he is able to see/hear/feel what John Malkovich
sees/hears/feels.
- The
Matrix
(1999)
- See review
at Hollywood Jesus.
- Galaxy Quest
(1999)
- The illusion of the television show
becomes Reality for Mathesar and his crew. The illusion of the
television show becomes the Reality for the Galaxy Quest crew as they
become what they have pretended to be.
- The Galaxy Quest crew is not who they've
pretended to be in any way - even to each other as actors.
- At the return home, the fans at the
convention think that the entrance and the subsequent destruction of
Sarris is just part of the act.
- Stir of Echoes (1999)
- Samantha haunts Tom and Jake until her death is
avenged.
- Tom, Jake, and others are able to participate in other
realities and communicate with those living in an afterlife, even while
others fake that ability.
- The Sixth Sense (1999)
- Entrance to alternate reality through
doors and windows. (See review
at Hollywood Jesus.)
- The Haunting
(1999)
- See review
at Hollywood Jesus.
- The Blair Witch
Project
(1999)
- Instinct (1999)
- Dr. Powell helps Dr. Calder to see the illusions we
base our lives on and that come between us and God. This movie also
contrasts our society's understanding of authority with Jesus' authority
as demonstrated in Mark 1. (submitted by Shirley R. Frazier)
- Beloved
(1998)
- Beloved (embodiment of
Sethe's past) haunts Sethe and all of her relationships until she makes
her peace with them
- Dark City (1998)
- Reality changes daily as "memories" are
implanted into people's minds by The Strangers.
- The Truman Show
(1998)
- the "door" which leads to
another reality toward end of movie
- Pleasantville (1997)
- The "utopia" of the past isn't what it seems
to be.
- Contact
(1997)
- Ellie is called to
experience an alternate reality (symbolized by her journey to the other
world and by her love with Joss and with her father) which she cannot
explain or prove.
- 12 Monkeys
(1995)
- Relationship and Consequence for actions reaches both
into past and into future.
- Natural Born Killers
(1994)
- The "psychic landscape" of the characters as
well as of our violent culture is often seen in the background.
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Groundhog Day for either Ephesians 5:16, "making
the most of the time" or for 2 Corinthians 6:1, "now is the
acceptable time." In the Movie, Bill Murray is a reporter stuck in
a town in PA, covering Groundhog day. He finds himself stuck in time,
waking up every morning to the same day. At first he is horrified, but
then he realizes he can take advantage of what he is already learned
from living the through the day previously. Eventually he realizes he
has the opportunity to "make the most of the day." (Erwin F.
Goedicke)
- Blue Velvet (1986)
- Under the falsely colored everyday world is a different
world. Although it is dangerous and "nasty," Jeffrey finds
himself more alive in this world.
- The Wall - Pink Floyd (1982)
- The Shining
(1980)
- the "play"
between the realities of the present and of the past/'spiritual' world
which inhabits the Overlook
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Dorothy is transported to another reality from which
she is able to see her own world more clearly.
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