The wife and I are looking for something wild to watch…
What’s the most mind-bending movie you’ve ever seen?
Discussion
Watch the gorge on Apple TV - came out yesterday. Fun sci-fi action romance for Valentine’s Day 🥰
Watching it now. It is fun indeed.
Strange Days.
El Topo
The Prestige was fun. It was the only movie I watched twice and had a different experience both times.
Departed was good.
Primer
Funny Games
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Tenet !
I suppose that you saw it, but just in case, 2001.
Donnie darko
Momento is a wild movie
Seven or Less Than Zero
The Endless (2017)
I love this one, but it is dark!
I watched this a week ago. I have no idea what its about.
It’s several stories that all have the same plot in a metaphorical way , it’s showing that the same types of things repeat themselves.
At least that’s what I think it was.
I actually went and bought the book version a few months ago to see if I got it right.
One thing is certain:
Tom Hanks sort of looks like Brent Hinds from Mastodon with that face tattoo.
And THAT is metal. 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000DZTIN
This is mind bending in the best possible way; escape from communist Eastern Europe in a homemade hot air balloon...😳🔥💖
Since there is already a lot of good stuff covered, I’ll recommend The Platform. Not so much a “mind fuck” but really good and deep.
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You may like to watch the night of the game. It seems fun to me, for a couple program! 🫡🫀
Tron legacy Def a fav. And beautiful too
The Prestige was very good. Hugo not a mind bender but excellent also.
Memento 2020
Just saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - surprising cast and a bit mind warping
Adaptation
The Spanish Prisoner
Being John Malkovich
Harrison Bergeron
The Parallax View
Capricorn One
Moonwalkers
Cube
Exit Through The Giftshop
Moon
Oldboy, the original
Ben Kingsley…. And fantastic
Dangerous Liaisons, Malkovich, Close version. Just do it. Ignore Keanu acting stupid.
Have you seen My Dinner with Andre and/or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ever seen!? How about from 2024; The Substance, Strange Darling and Nosferatu (of course).
Vote for Eternal Mind… or Memento
Just watched "The Substance". I would definitely describe it was wild.
Good recommendation
Jacobs’s Ladder
Just watched Caddo Lake it’s pretty good
Tenet
Tenet is not for everyone but I had to watch it twice to get it, really good recommendation
Revolver
Planet of the Apes staring Charlton Heston or Fight Club
Charlton Heston was a fucking Chad
It’s a horror film but “Event Horizon” was pretty trippy.
Waking Life
Identity is a good one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309698/
Heat
there a lot of good ones already in the replies but i will suggest this :
Parasite was really good.
Ex Machina
Plus not mind bending yet a lot of fun (we watched it twice) ... The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Enjoy! 🧡✨
i really like birdman.
Dark Matter on Apple TV. Great show.
David Lynch doesn’t spoon feed you. Ripe for discussion/interpretation.
Memento
Go is another great movie
Not a movie - but peaky blinders is number 1 tv series
Lovecraft Country fits the bill but is a tv series, seen it?
'Little Otik' ranks high
Okay, not “mind-bending” but if you haven’t watched “Major Payne” together then that is my recommendation.
I’m currently rewatching The Usual Suspects 😁
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Not a movie but this German series is epic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_(TV_series)
“Predestination” 🤯
Many good ones but Minority Report is definitely worth a watch
Severance might fit
Perfect Days 👌
Life in the fat lane.
So many options to choose from, but let’s go for Event Horizon.
Under the Skin - Scarlett Johansson
If you want to be in a constant state of suspense while watching a movie then try The Fall...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_(2022_film)
Me and my wife got so sweaty just by watching this... 😅
the expanse .. truly excellent
Shutter Island or Inception.
Bonus: Both starring Leo 👌
Mind-bending may be a stretch, but "Resolution" & "The Endless" are a shared-universe pair of films with the same unique supernatural antagonist in the background. It gets the audience thinking & leaves them with questions in a IMO very satisfying way
Have you tried watching films by Adam Curtis?
The Substance.
Trippy, shocking, and a tribute 90's gore.
Man from earth, tenet, memento
Not a movie but an excellent tv series.
Mr. Robot.
Very relatable to Bitcoin ethos.
Not the most... but The Game was pretty good.
The interview of Itzhak Bentov & his widow’s lecture presentation of his ideas at length in “From Atom to Cosmos”.
Bentov died “mysteriously” just 2 years after writing his book “Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness”. His biomedical models were directly referenced in a June 1983 letter on the then classified research called “remote viewing”.
Bentov developed the first missile for the Israelis in their War for Independence in the 1940s, so we know he was on Mossad’s radar. We know he was on the CIA’s radar.
Is it any surprise that he “died mysteriously” just a couple years after writing a book that ripped the face off the universe?
The most mind bending videos aren’t produced by the same Hollyweird that gave us #metoo and Diddy parties.
The most mind bending videos take our distorted models of the universe and offer us less distorted models of the universe. This is true because when a person realizes certain truths, it forces them to reassess their prior assumptions and see just how many dominoes topple as a result of this new information.
Primer
Mulholland Drive
Brazil
Tenet was probably the most recent mind fuck I’ve watched.
American Beauty
Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind
Ok, so there is this movie you prolly never heard of called The Matrix. Now in it, Keanu Reaves plays this…
Awake is a must watch
After a car accident takes the life of a family member, a police detective lives two alternating parallel lives, one with his wife and one with his son. Is one of his "realities" merely a dream?
Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock, is somewhat unsettling.
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