Best Films On The Human Condition???

About us, our relationships, society, motivations, truth, etc?

And I'm not necessarily talking about those complex films, with no music, no dialogue for 45 minutes - give me a Western instead. Don't give me a puzzle, give me a great script, and maybe some great acting, that's pretty much it.

Part of this is for discussion, part of it is for some of us to maybe find some great new movies we haven't seen. Some slip under the radar, some are underrated, foreign, many reasons.. But something unique, I'd rather not see a film made in 2005 when it's been already said 1000 times before the same exact way.. and better.

I'd prefer films before 1980.

Kobayashi's The Human Condition I suppose.

I am hard pressed to think of a film that isn't about the human condition.

But anyway, The Naked Kiss is a very good neo-noir I watched recently about the American human condition that's just as relevant today. I'll write something up about it next week.

Not pre-1980, but---Happiness by Todd Solondz.

Dark, but real.

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I'm only 30 minutes in (to 9 hours), but it's not screaming masterpiece to me.

Winged Migration, maybe?

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I thought It was like four hours?

Part 1 is 3.5 hours
Part 2 is 2.5
Part 3 is 3

or thereabouts

the extras look like they've just come from a zombie b movie.

it's not as good as Dr Zhivago, let alone Bridge on the River Kwai.
This is a very long film, but it's no masterpiece.

Oh you mean the Japanese trilogy? It's 9:40 hours. I is 3:27, II is 3:02, and III is 3:11. It's my favorite trilogy in the history of the ever ever. I thought you meant Stephen King's IT with Tim Curry.

I've skipped Part One.

How about The Red Shoes?

Oh... I might have the times wrong. I know they're all over three hours and I swear it equals 9:37 hours. Now I'm not sure of each entry's exact length. I've watched the trilogy three or four times in full. I know the first two times it took me three days vis one movie in each day. That was an awesome three-day stretch each time.

I'll echo Corax as to most movies could be quaified here in one way or another, arguably... but the first one that jumped into my mind (and no, it's not pre-80s but it's fantastic OK?)... was Glengarry Glen Ross; which says a lot about modernity, and aging, the workplace, competition, and it's lies, and the sneaky truths that come out in the most wrong or right of the times depending on which poor bastard you are... and it says it in the most fun way; a tight, frustrating situation (life is like that sometimes, no?)... and acted on a legendary level...

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I've got to admit, The Human Condition Part 1 left me a little cold as well. I never got around to the other two because of it, and now I feel I'd have to rewatch it if I want to continue with the series, and I fear that will probably never happen.


No doubt, I'm probably wrong.

Maybe I'm wrong but I think films with people cover some sort of "human condition". I'm kind of confused. Maybe a film like Land before Time doesn't? Or are the dinosaurs caricatures of humans set in dino form?