Time for Endgame
A big everlasting "final solution" is what humankind fantasized, feared and suffered about since we tried to put us in order in different kinds of civilizations. Wise people know that there is always a huge danger for such systems to turn fascist. So many films were made of that sinister idea of "caring" and battling for humankind and even other (e.g. space-races, A.I.s, Robots, etc...) beings as a wildcard for our own conflicts. Some of them are dystopian, some of them are biographical or have a true background. Whether you think positively or negatively about it ...
Which of these movies that contain gathered characters who enforce their ideology for the goal to win "the one and only" endgame and their opposite forces is your favorite?
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Which of these movies that contain gathered characters who enforce their ideology for the goal to win "the one and only" endgame and their opposite forces is your favorite?
Please discuss here.
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- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.The foul "final solution" of the Nazis about the jews and the forced dream of "Greater Germany" and the "superior German race". Perfectly packed in a thrilling and heartbreaking biography.
- DirectorMichael RadfordStarsJohn HurtRichard BurtonSuzanna HamiltonIn a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.To keep the masses calm, it's best to make them dull. No feelings allowed. Feeling free is a no-go. So keep them under pressure by their own problems. Be careful, there is a mind police, isn't it? No, there isn't, but you better believe in it. What a bad final solution that perverts all principles of life itself.
- DirectorAnthony RussoJoe RussoStarsRobert Downey Jr.Chris EvansMark RuffaloAfter the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe.The plan Thanos made up to extinct half of the whole universe to make the survivors live happy and wealthy. Who the heck has the right to decide about who has to die and who won't? This one surely not.
- DirectorKurt WimmerStarsChristian BaleSean BeanEmily WatsonIn an oppressive future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system and state.A repressive-drug scenario: Oppressing people's feelings by chemicals to avoid future wars. If we follow the crude mindset of the leaders there will be no war, but a lot of dull boredom.
- DirectorLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne MossWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.An A.I. dystopy, which shows up the dangers of getting too perfect in technologies. It's showing a rebellion of some humans to break out of crushing and enslaving alien technologies. A simile to our own computer technologies, which are expected to be able to enslave ourselves, soon.
- DirectorGary RossStarsJennifer LawrenceJosh HutchersonLiam HemsworthKatniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death.Prevent a downfall of civilization and war by sending young people of several districts into a battle against each other? Making a show of it to calm the masses? Bread and games is an old roman principle. But this method is surely pervert.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonMichael BiehnA human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.In order to care about hostile intruders, a part of the humans made up an A.I. system to fight the threat against the humans. Too bad that the A.I. defined humans as the biggest "threats" for humans. Also some kind of endgame.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsMichael YorkJenny AgutterRichard JordanA police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.It's Darwinian somehow. The old has to go to make the young be strong. And it's also fascist, somehow. Old people should live, too.
- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsBrenton ThwaitesJeff BridgesMeryl StreepIn a seemingly perfect community without war, pain, suffering, differences or choices, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man, the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.The old problem with emotions. A bad scenario which forbids to feel to prevent people to get into handles or war, provided by "caring" forces.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack OakieDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.The foul "final solution" of the Nazis about the jews and "Greater Germany" in parody. In the real times of war, even people on other continents saw how stupid such systems are and showed exactly that. Thank you, Charles Spencer Chaplin!
- DirectorGeorge PalStarsRod TaylorAlan YoungYvette MimieuxA man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.The endgame of the classes. Only one class rules: The predators. The downer class is just food. This strict division is more like the result of the endgame. I wouldn't want to experience that.
- DirectorSimon WellsStarsGuy PearceYancey AriasMark AddyHoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.Same like in option number 11. (reboot movie)
- DirectorAndrew NiccolStarsEthan HawkeUma ThurmanJude LawA genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.Which is more of an "endgame" than declining disabled persons from normal life? The delusional view of a perfect world by excluding the disabled is a bad kind of "perfection"-dictatorship. The endgame of the "perfect" people.
- DirectorGeorge LucasStarsHayden ChristensenNatalie PortmanEwan McGregorThree years into the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi pursues a new threat, while Anakin Skywalker is lured by Chancellor Palpatine into a sinister plot to rule the galaxy.After commencing with a fatal, ambush coup d'etat of the Jedi leadership, the Sith orchestrate a merciless campaign of defamation, persecution, suppression and slow annihilation of the remaining Jedi, until only fewer than half a dozen of their legendary Knights are still alive and whereby most of the galaxy's population somewhat forgets that the Jedi existed much less were regarded as the guardians of peace and justice.
- DirectorAlex ProyasStarsWill SmithBridget MoynahanBruce GreenwoodIn 2035, a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.It's a bad thing when an A.I. turns bad by false interpreting of directives. Caring of someone can easily turn to a cage for the beholded, then. Centralized false interpreted orders in A.I.'s can potentially turn to a threatening danger, when spread through a wide data net and then affecting e.g. masses of robots. Somehow the same like in 'Terminator'.
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsSean ConneryChristian SlaterHelmut QualtingerAn intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.The termination of free minds by oppressing humor. Being serious isn't bad at all, but only being serious by killing all kinds of humor is the death of freedom and feeling free. In that movie some characters even had to die because of being curious about humor. The ideology of a civilization that only "grows" healthy by being just and only serious is one of the most sad and oppressive things of all.