Psychedelic movies

Movies are amazing. They can change how we see the world over the course of 2 hours.

To do so, it has to be a movie that takes us out of our comfort zone. If your comfort zone is a circle with radius r=0, this is not difficult to achieve.

However, if the movie is in a whole different orbit than your heliocentric comfort zone it may miss the mark.

So the art is in picking a movie that is far enough out there to influence you in a meaningful way, but not too far to be obtuse.

Below is my selection of great movies on scale of 1 (mainstream psychological) to 5 (psychedelic):

Mainstream Psychological:

The Matrix (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski)

Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)

Fight Club (David Fincher)

Psychological Mystery:

Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)

Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)

Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)

Iconoclastic:

Contempt (Jean Luc Godard)

Mother! (Darren Aronofsky)

The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)

Existentialist:

Pierrot le Fou (Jean Luc Godard)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)

Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)

Psychedelic:

Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)

The Tree of Life (Terrence Mallick)

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)