Movie Recommendations for Quarantine
by Rafi Levi
To Laugh
My top choice would be my all time favorite comedy ‘’Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan’’. As you can understand from the name this movie is the king of absurd comedy. Especially, if you like dark humor and would enjoy laughing at Sasha Baron Cohen jokes about almost every ethnic and gender groups this is the movie for you. If you’ve seen and liked Cohen’s ‘’The Dictator’’, I assure you this is 10 times better. My other recommendations would be ‘’The Anchorman’’, ‘’Superbad’’, ‘’Zohan’’, ‘’Tropic Thunder’’ and ‘’Zombieland’’
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To Cry
The obvious choice here would be ‘’The Green Mile’’ which I guarantee would make you cry through the final act. However, I’ll recommend a different movie as I believe most of you have not heard of. 2013’s ‘’About Time’’ is about a man who has the ability to travel back in time. It sounds like a science fiction but the movie slowly evolves into a great exploration of the protagonist’s relationship with his family. Especially, the last scene (which I will not describe to avoid spoilers) is one of the most sentimental scenes that I have ever seen. Other recommendations like this are: ‘’Les Miserables’’,’’Never Let Me Go’’,’’A Ghost Story’’,’’The Florida Project’’,’’Sorry We Missed You’’,’’Once’’ and ‘’Capernaum’’
To See a Great Plot Twist
If you are one of those people who despise watching non-English movies, I am sorry for you because you will not see the greatest plot twist of all time. Lucky for you, with ‘’Parasite’’ winning the Oscar Korean cinema got increasingly popular. ‘’The Oldboy’’ one of the early 2000s gems of the Korean cinema has the most amazing plot twist that I have ever seen. Even better than those iconic twists of ‘’The Usual Suspects’’, ‘’The Sixth Sense’’ and ‘’The Prestige’’. For me, the thing that makes ‘’The Oldboy’’ better than the others is the fact that there is literally no foreshadowing so there is no reason for you to expect a twist. The twist itself is unpredictable. Really UNPREDICTABLE. I am not going to talk about it more and spoil the great reveal at the end. Other recommendations for this category are: ‘’Shutter Island’’, ‘’Contratiempo’’, ‘’Cronocrimenes’’, ’’The Village’’, ’’Arrival’’, ’’Memento’’ and ‘’Gone Baby Gone’’
To See Cinema at Its Finest
I don’t have a top choice in this category as it is really hard to compare these movies. All of these movies I am about to recommend are the greatest movies I have ever seen and it would be unfair to rank them. I will try to avoid well-known classics like ‘’Shawshank Redemption’’ or ‘’Casablanca’’ but if you think you are missing those as well check IMDb’s top 250 list. Here are my recommendations: ‘’Pan’s Labyrinth’’, ’’Moneyball’’, ’’Black Swan’’, ’’Before Trilogy’’, ’’Cloud Atlas’’, ’’12 Angry Men’’, ’’Rush’’, ’’The Thin Red Line’’, ‘’Uncut Gems’’, ’’Nightcrawler’’, ’’Prisoners’’, ’’Nocturnal Animals’’, ’The ’Big Short’’, ’’The Royal Tenenbaums’’, ‘’In Bruges’’, ‘’The Wild Pear Tree’’, ‘’I, Daniel Blake’’, ’’Mr Nobody’’ and many others.