Get busy living or get busy dying. That’s GODDAMN right!

If you didn’t read my title in Morgan Freeman’s voice, get your shit together immediately.

Now with that out of the way, I have a question for my favourite savages.

Before anyone says it, I did use the search bar and there’s about a hundred threads on SALES movies, but shockingly enough, that is not what my question is about today.

So here it is:

Can anyone suggest/recommend any movies that were truly, genuinely, life-changing for them?

And don’t come at me with “I liked Batman because Anne Hathaway wore a leather catsuit” - I liked Batman for the same reason, but I’m asking for real.

Gattaca is one of mine- powerful flick if you haven’t checked it out.

Unsurprisingly, Shawshank Redemption is another, and I am not exaggerating when I say it literally changed my life. I fundamentally reshaped the way I saw the world, because of the message I took away from the movie. I should mention, I had a pretty rough childhood. I watched SR when I was 15, and I was just beginning to get frustrated that life wasn’t going my way, and I felt powerless to change it. Everything and everyone was pushing me around, and I had enough. I started to take a stand because I realized if you have nothing, you have nothing to lose. I watched the movie again probably 6-7x over following year. In it, Brooks said “I’m tired of living in fear” - and I have carried that message with me since the day I first heard it.

So, I politely ask that you don’t make a mockery of my question with your favourite dirty movies and/or the Jackass series. But if anyone has movies titles that have had a tangible impact on their lives (in any major aspect) I’d love to hear them. They don’t just have to be sales related.