4 Films that changed my life

I would like to think every film I watch changes my life positively in some way, but sometimes that is just being too optimistic. Narrowing this list down to 4 films was incredibly hard but without any further ado, here are some films that changed my life:

Life In A Day

This film comes first on the list just because it was so memorable for me, and I have watched it recently. Thousands of people all over the world film one day - the 24th July 2010. After hours and hours of brilliant editing and sound mixing (the music is beautiful and never feels intrusive) we get to see the world on this particular day and it is amazing to see different people from different corners of the world, the richest and the poorest, all doing so much on this planet in only one day. It really makes you realise what you've got, how lucky you are (as someone who lives a comfortable life in a moderately rich country) and how vast our planet Earth is and what it has to offer. This film is just completely incredible and really gets my sense of adventure going.

Halloween (films 1-8)

The other half of Rollie fashioning his idols 'look'. Which is which?

This franchise makes a very unlikely appearance on the list. It's not here for the quality of the film-making or script-writing, and certainly not here for Jamie-Lee Curtis' performance (bless her). Instead it earns its place in my top five because it marks the 'Rollie friendship' most perfectly and wholly. The films are so bad they are laughable and Micheal Myers has grown to become both mine and Ollie's favourite character. Each Myers flick gets worse than the last, but we still love it and we don't care how often we hear an awful teenage actors scream or see Michael rise from the dead. I don't urge anyone to watch the later Halloween films, the first is okay and the second slightly better, but it's all downhill from there. Long live Michael Myres.

Shutter Island

This was for a long time my absolute favourite film, and I believe it is what started my passion for the subject of psychology which I am now going onto study at university. The film makes you believe you are figuring out exactly what is going on; you are sat there thinking you are like Sherlock Holmes for the most part because you've 'got it all sussed', but then it swiftly pulls the rug from under your feet near the end and you are left dazzled in amazement. Leo DiCaprio plays the role of US Marshal Teddy brilliantly. He is sent into a mental asylum to search for missing inmate Rachel who is presumed to be hiding nearby; the asylum sits on an island and the only way off is through the docks which are controlled by armed guards. Rachel is much more difficult to find than first expected and we start to question if she even lost at all.This is a brilliant psychological thriller and well worth its hype.

The eighth day

 

I first saw this french film as a child with my dad and I regard it as my first proper grown up film (as well as Alien which I watched at the age of 9 and which scarred me for life). It is a beautiful tale of a recent divorcee's new friendship with a young man who has downs syndrome. Normally the two would never even meet, but their paths were set to cross and what grew between them was a friendship so loving and pure. This is definitely a tearjerker but also a feel good film and one which I have always remembered.

By Rosie.