It’s parts of a whole, it’s flashes of brilliance, it’s fracturing space, time, reality, and narrative for the sake of the abstract. It’s a montage, and we’re bringing you our top 10 in movie history!
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THE LIST
Up - Married Life This sweet look at Carl and Ellie’s married life pulls at our heartstrings and makes us understand and support Carl even though he seems to have forgotten what it means to be happy.
Rushmore - Yearbook Wes Anderson is able to tell us everything we need to know about Max with a perfect mix of childishness and seriousness.
Rocky IV - Training The way the months of training are compressed into a few brilliant minutes and the way it displays the contrasting training methods of Rocky and Drago make this the obvious choice.
Donnie Darko - Mad World Timeline Collapse Somehow able to make something so WTF fill us with emotion and make us understand how tragic it all is.
Cinema Paradiso - Kissing It’s a meta analysis of the power of cinema, romancing us as it examines romance.
Citizen Kane - Breakfast Table In a few brief moments we are told the story of a beautiful love turned cold over the course of years.
The 25th Hour - F*&K YOU Spike Lee shows us the honesty of a deeply racist character in post 9-11 New York.
I Wish - Poetry in the Details A look at the beauty of the little things we usually just pass by in our daily life.
American Beauty - Dying Moments It perfectly alternates between the beauty of a life in retrospect and the pain of those left behind in a mix of calm and chaos.
The Godfather - Baptism Birth in Christ vs death without him showing us Michael’s bad faith pledge on his soul to underline how his character has changed.
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