What movie or TV show would U recommend 2 break thru cognitive dissonance? (page 2)

garybuss

The Wizard of OZ
Ticket To Heaven (1981)
The Truman Show, with Jim Carrey
The Wave (TV 1981)

By the way, forget about my "R-rated" prohibition. If they're rated R I'll watch them and add them to my list of future "good" R-rated movies to try to get my wife to watch. I was thinking "Schindler's List" would be good to break the "R-rated" ice with her since it's gotten so many rave reviews.

Gotta go,

Thanks,

Open Mind

Sad emo

1984 was made into a movie - starred John Hurt and Richard Burton.

The other Orwell classic would be Animal Farm available as film or cartoon.

Just read your latest post - Schindler's List is fantastic, very moving. Also The Shawshank Redemption.

knock knock

ANTZ

blondie

The Truman Show is very good. It had a big impact on me and my hubbie 5 years before we left.

1984

Animal Farm

Fahrenheit 451

Brave New World

V for Vendetta

The Prisoner

Matrix series

Pleasantville

Remember though that the person has to already have seen things that make them wonder how that can happen in a "christian" group or doubts about the blinking "light" of WTS doctrines.

Abandoned

I can't think of anything to add other than MORE SIMPSONS. There are a ton of episodes which promote thinking above following. Heretic Homer is excellent. I watch a few epidsodes a night, nearly every night while I'm doing my journal thing, so I'll keep you in mind from here on out....

nvrgnbk

MORE SIMPSONS

See if you can get a cute little show called Moral Orel. It's clay figures like Gumby. Totally hilarious.

http://www.adultswim.com/shows/moralorel/

Nvr

littlerockguy

Ticket To Heaven has been out of print for a while and hard to get but it will be rereleased on DVD on April 3. There was a motion picture adaption of 1984 but I haven't seen it in years to really comment on it. The Village is a good one to break through cognitive dissonance but it depends on the individual watching it.

Frannie Banannie

I'm truly surprised no one here has mentioned "Steppford Wives"

Everytime they ring that bell to remind their robotic wives to take their meds, it makes me think of "time for a meeting/study/field service."

It's all about control, just like the WTS.

gaiagirl

1984 has been made into a film twice, once during the 1950's, and then once more, actually filmed in 1984, during the months and in the locations mentioned in the book. I own the newer film, it is horrifyingly grim and seems more like what life would be under the rule of the WTBTS than the cheerful images on tracts. In the film, the main character actually has a job in which he changes or deletes data in older publications to conform with present thinking, much like WTBTS does when printing bound volumes (there are many incidences where the bound volume doesn't match the original published magazine). Further, 1984 has "Thought Police" who monitor signs of wrong thinking, and its own language and catchphrases, intended to eventually make it impossible to even think of disobedience. Other films which might help someone see WTBTS "from the outside" include some already mentioned, and a couple of others: The Truman Show Brazil The Handmaidens Tale (society ruled by religious conservatives similar to WTBTS) Farenheit 451 Gattaca The Da Vinci Code

What movie or TV show would U recommend 2 break thru cognitive dissonance?