this may or may not be obvious to you, but Waking Life deals with philosophical subjects, but maybe too many to do a report on since it's mostly dialogue the whole time. Also Sunrise to Sunset and From Dusk to Dawn, which both may be made by the same person as Waking Life, I don't know. Has a couple of the same characters in them. You would have an easy time finding a subject to focus on in any of those movies.
Harold and Maude is a really cool old movie! It involves and eccentric rich teenage boy who likes to scare his mother by faking suicide a lot and the main story line is about his falling in love with an poor elderly woman who is very odd/crazy. It's a classic. although I'm having a hard time tying philosophy into that one. Maybe something about the life of the privileged leaving something to be desired.
A newer one that could work is called Doubt. I just saw that in the theater, but it's about *spoiler* a priest who I believe was gay giving a sermon about doubt and it sparks something in a nun who then starts to hate the priest for no apparent reason and tries to get him kicked out by accusing him of improper relations with one of the boys at the school they both work at. In the end *real spoiler* after she's gotten him to leave, she's crying to another nun saying she has "doubts" which in context appear to mean that she has doubts about the church. Putting it all together, she just hated the priest because he stirred some feelings of doubt inside her, making her believe that since she had these unholy feelings while he was speaking that he must be evil. That review really wraps it up in a neat package and makes some assumptions so that's not what everyone thinks it is about. but I really do. it's really a thought-provoking movie.
Harold and Maude is a really cool old movie! It involves and eccentric rich teenage boy who likes to scare his mother by faking suicide a lot and the main story line is about his falling in love with an poor elderly woman who is very odd/crazy. It's a classic. although I'm having a hard time tying philosophy into that one. Maybe something about the life of the privileged leaving something to be desired.
A newer one that could work is called Doubt. I just saw that in the theater, but it's about *spoiler* a priest who I believe was gay giving a sermon about doubt and it sparks something in a nun who then starts to hate the priest for no apparent reason and tries to get him kicked out by accusing him of improper relations with one of the boys at the school they both work at. In the end *real spoiler* after she's gotten him to leave, she's crying to another nun saying she has "doubts" which in context appear to mean that she has doubts about the church. Putting it all together, she just hated the priest because he stirred some feelings of doubt inside her, making her believe that since she had these unholy feelings while he was speaking that he must be evil. That review really wraps it up in a neat package and makes some assumptions so that's not what everyone thinks it is about. but I really do. it's really a thought-provoking movie.
