The Five Movies Meme

What five films would you tell a potential Significant Other to watch to know what kind of person you are?

1. The Princess Bride
2. Undercover Blues
3. Judgment at Nuremberg
4. The Incredibles
5. Dogma

What does your list look like?

Though not required as part of the meme, here are my reasons, what it is that I want to convey with each film:

1. I’m a romantic. I believe in true love, and the hard work and being of service to succeed at it. I believe in happy endings. I believe in beating evil, with a wry quip and a steady eye. I believe in riding off into the sunset with my true love (and my pals). I believe in wordplay.
2. As with the first, but I also believe in competence and intelligence, in family, in raising kids well, in shared memories, and in having fun with life. Also, I enjoy cheesy entertainment.
3. I believe in the triumph of good over evil, and justice over injustice, even if it take time to make happen. I believe in jurisprudence and the rule of law. I believe in studying history and drawing lessons from it. I am aware of the dangers of “going along” with evil. I believe people can be good people and do bad things — and that even if they are good people there are still consequences. I believe that national self-righteousness and myth-making have a dark side. Also, that I don’t run away from the classics, enjoy a good black-and-white flick, and can be serious when need be.
4. Along with 1 and 2, I’m a family guy, I like to think I’m a hero, but I can also have feet of clay. That said, I want to do the right thing, and I’m stronger doing it with my loved ones. Also some stuff about valuing achievement, the dangers of hubris (for everyone), and striking a balance between being ones own self and living in society.
5. It’s important to be both reverent and irreverent, to not let outrage and anger override one’s principles, to stick together with friends, to value what one is, and to take time to stop and boop someone’s nose. Also that I’m a theist, but not a stodgy or vengeful or orthodox or commercially slick one.

Also, as an overall set of films, I would hope they conveyed a sense of fun, a sense of values and morality, and a desire to balance dedication to society, family, and self, all the while having a good time.

Not sure if that would send a hypothetical SO screaming out the door, especially if I overexplained it all that way, and since I just pulled that list from one video shelf there are possibly others that would work, too, but … there it is.

[h/t +Harold Chester]

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