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Some films are not suitable for everyone: their elegant and meaningful plots are understandable only to true intellectuals. I want to think about such stories again and again, they capture completely and do not let go for a very long time. To understand such a film, you need to pay attention to the details: usually it is in them that the true meaning is hidden.
Let’s take a look at 10 films that are especially liked by people who appreciate plots with meaning.
10 Time Patrol | 2014
Scientists managed to create a time machine, and this allowed humanity to reach a different stage of development. This device gave people the ability to prevent various crimes, and for this work the policemen who proved themselves the best were chosen.
In the center of the plot is a temporary agent who has always done a great job with his duties.
However, one day he encounters great difficulties: he fails to catch a well-known subversive criminal. Due to the bomb explosion, the agent’s face is disfigured, and it has to be restored surgically.
9. Matrix | 1999
Thomas Anderson lives a double life: at night he becomes Neo, a talented hacker who can reach anywhere on the web, and during the day he becomes an ordinary office worker. However, one day everything turns upside down: Thomas learns that everything around him is just the Matrix, an illusion.
Mankind has been enslaved by artificial intelligence, and humans are meant only to feed it. Around the ruins, the planet is in eternal dusk. Suddenly, the world has become frightening and alien, but Neo has the opportunity to correct the situation.
8. Devil’s Advocate | 1997
A young lawyer Kevin Lomax travels to New York: he was called by the head of a well-known legal concern. Prior to this, Kevin gained popularity because he won all the processes, while protecting only the villains.
Everything suits the lawyer at the new place: he is surrounded by interesting colleagues, he lives with a wonderful wife in a good apartment.
However, Lomax’s wife is tormented by strange visions, and he does not pay attention to this, because he is very passionate about his affairs. In addition, he has an attraction to a colleague.
7. Home | 2010
Cobb specializes in stealing people’s innermost secrets during sleep: this is the time when a person is most vulnerable. Because of this gift, Cobb lost everything that was of any value to him, and in the end he had to become a fugitive.
However, he got the opportunity to fix everything. To do this, Cobb will have to introduce a certain thought, and not steal. If he does not have any problems, the crime will approach the ideal. However, Cobb and his men did not have the opportunity to prepare for a meeting with a dangerous enemy who anticipates every move of his opponents.
6. Planet Ka-Pax | 2001
An unusual person turns up at the Institute of Psychiatry, who claims that he came from Ka-Pex, a distant planet. His name is Prot.
Dr. Powell has no way of finding out who this strange man really is. Very soon, the psychiatrist begins to doubt that Prot is crazy, although he tries not to take these thoughts seriously.
The mysterious patient says exactly when he is going to return to his home planet, and provides evidence of his extraterrestrial origin.
5. Best offer | 2012
The head of the auction house, Virgil Oldman, and his partner are misleading buyers and sellers, manipulating them with dexterity, cranking out ingenious scams in front of the whole world. He collects valuable paintings, which he keeps in a secret room.
One day, Oldman is approached by a mysterious woman who wants him to sell the family’s antiques. Virgil finds parts of a mechanism that was long lost. Previously, it was believed that he worked with the help of higher powers.
4. Mr Nobody | 2009
Waking up, Nemo Nobody discovers that he has become a weak old man. In the distant future, he is the last person who is still mortal.
The rest of the people don’t die. They watch with interest the show in which Nobody approaches death inexorably. A decrepit old man is visited by a journalist who hears Nemo’s story.
No one manages to lose his life several times in the entire history, he jumps from one reality to another. It is not entirely clear what really happened from this, and what is only one of the possible scenarios.
3. Remember | 2000
Leonard Shelby wears expensive and sophisticated clothes, drives a new car, but spends his days in cheap motels. He seeks to attack the trail of the man who took the life of his wife.
However, Shelby is very much hindered by such a problem as amnesia: he is able to remember only what was less than fifteen minutes ago. In order not to miss anything important, Leonard makes reminiscent tattoos, photographs, leaves numerous notes for himself.
Shelby’s two men help investigate Shelby’s murder, but he doesn’t trust any of them.
2. Gattaca | 1997
In Gattaca, all people are genetically programmed, and those of them who were born not in laboratory conditions, but in love, will face a truly difficult fate. The young man Vincent Freeman was also declared “unfit”. He does not cease to believe that dreams tend to come true.
Freeman is an emotional and passionate person, and such people have no place in Gattaca. He tries to deceive the authorities and acquires a personality that previously belonged to another person. However, it is very likely that Vincent’s own identity will eventually be revealed.
1. Mulholland Drive | 2001
After a car accident, the girl loses her memory, comes up with a new name for herself and tries to start living differently. However, she is constantly haunted by mysteries of the past. Rita had a bag with her, in which she and her new friend Betty find a mysterious blue key and a large amount of money.
As a result, the dream is intertwined with reality, and it becomes unclear what really happened and what never happened.