Idiocracy just keeps proving itself to be a time traveler’s documentary instead of a work of fiction.
As a millennial who has worked in an office for the last 17 years, Office Space just doesn’t miss. Gets better every time I see something that should be satire happen at work.
Click (2006). Though I still disagree about skipping through work. I’d love to have a remote to speed through the day for work.
But everywhere else, I understand the message. Take time to enjoy each moment, even the dull ones. I tear up at the last scenes with his dad played by Henry Wrinkler. I remember my dad and the times I was frustrated with him and the situation he was in near his end. I remember how I too said things I regret even if I did apologize and he did forgive me. That scene in the office kills me every time.
I’ve mentioned it before but About Time.
When it came out my Mum had been dead 15+ years and my Dad had developed a few health issues. It left me a right mess.
Then I watched it 5 or so years later when my Dad had was increasingly infirm and it wrecked me. Even though I thought it wouldn’t hit me as hard because I knew what I was getting into.
Now he’s gone and I don’t think I can ever watch it again, although I did buy the DVD, possibly to troll my future self.
If I was a parent, I’d now also be very aware that the roles have reversed and they’d now be in the position I was first in when I initially saw the film and so the cycle continues.
So I’m not sure I’ve got a solid answer to this (as in there isn’t a film that I didn’t really appreciate while young but have come to really connect with as I’ve aged).
But off the top of my head, the most obvious answer, strangely, is the LotR trilogy.
Not that I appreciate more now than I did then. I was a book fan before the films and have liked them since.
But as I’ve aged, I’ve come to appreciate more some of the core ideology that Tolkein put into the story in ways I probably didn’t really notice that much when I was younger, at least not explicitly.
The way in which Sam is the actual hero of the story and Frodo actually fails … the whole idea of putting the literal “little people” of the world (including Eowyn, a woman in a patriarchal story/world) front and center and turning them into the heroes, not because of their supernatural abilities (unlike cough comic book films cough), but because of their values and courage … having corruption of “the hearts of men” being a major source of evil … having people who are machine loving rather than nature loving being a major source of evil (Saruman and Sauron are the industrialists of Middle Earth) …
Sometimes I think back on these things and the story and each time I’m just kinda struck by how much I’m like “fuck yea” for a 70 year old novel I first enjoyed as a 13 yr old.
