11. Safe (1995)
"Look at all the crap we put each other through!" your friend shouted incredulously as Julianne Moore's Carol White vomited from the side of her car. "From pollution to emotional oppression, we're in a big prison and we don't even see it! And there's absolutely no way out of it because we don't even understand what's really going on! Our society can't even get a handle on it." Your friend then proceeded to explain to you, as he often does, the plot of the novel Ishmael and its various themes about how Western society was a flawed system from the get-go because of its unsustainability. "We set up all of these norms and institutions and have all these gases and background radiation floating around in the air, and put all these different chemicals in our bodies, and then wonder why people get cancer and the world around us is dying. How can we put up with this?!" This actually impressed you. You almost hoped to think that your friend might actually follow through with what he said, bringing his new outlook into his everyday life and maybe even change something in his routines. But later, during the quiet and very contemplative closing credits, he commented, "Julianne Moore really is great. We should watch The Lost World again sometime. I liked Nine Months too."