Movies That Molded Our Lives

[pajama]

So I was thinking about this the other day, and thought it might make for an interesting thread.

What movies do you hold dear because they express a core spiritual/metaphysical/life belief of yours?

I would like this thread to be about beliefs, not “I love this movie because it was what we saw on our first date.” I’m talking movies that developed or expanded or shaped your core values and beliefs. Please be respectful of others comments and beliefs here. I just wanted to know and discuss if others have had moments like this, that changed the way you believe.

Here are my examples, that come to my mind right away:
It’s a Wonderful Life (or The Butterfly Effect). Even as an adolescent it touched me and I saw the great wisdom in the ripple effect. If George, or you, or I, were never born….how would that have changed someone else’s life, which might have changed someone else’s, and so on. Until a major world event might have been affected. Working with the kids in the PICU, and going through my son’s own health issues, I have to believe that whether I can or can’t see the cause/effect doesn’t mean there isn’t one. And that when something bad happens here, it may be because something else had to happen there.

Somewhere In Time – this is an older movie, one of the first that Christopher Reeves was in. I think it was even before Superman. He was in it with Jane Seymour and he plays a time traveler. The method of his time travel is what affected me and gave me food for thought, and has ultimately developed one of my “beliefs”. Basically that the mind can bend and mold even our spacial reality and that time travel is possible. I’ve actually experienced this, and if I hadn’t had someone else in the car with me that went through the exact same thing, I still think I would believe it.

Defending Your Life – Merryl Streep and some other people. While I don’t necessarily believe that when we die we actually “defend” ourselves to some higher power, I do believe that we each experience the afterlife we believe in. And if you haven’t quite gotten it right this time, you sure as hell are coming back to give it another go. The movie showed all faiths going to defend their lives, before moving on. And "on" could be Valhala, the Pearly Gates, whatever. If you had not shown growth in your human life, you had to come back.

So I hope you get the gist. If a movie about Atlantis made you sure Atlantis exists - or - ET gave you an understanding of the universe - or - that movie with Sandra Bullock and the mailbox with the letters explains what you believe about time travel…..I would love to hear about it. This can also be about your views/feelings about the homeless, abuse, love, romance, whatever. Just if it affected you on a core level that molded what you believe.

And remember, no snickering, name calling, belittleing, or any other negative crap about whatever people believe.