I have to be honest; I don’t really understand how to make lists. I get why it's attractive; Trying to justify what you like the most, and then putting it into a stiff binary order is like another way of defining yourself. This is my list, and there will be none quite like it. It's a timeless representation of what you were like back then. But tastes change, so maybe it isn’t timeless. But my problem is, I just can't see how one can justify the seemingly arbitrary choice of 'This film about a depressed sex addict is all-out better than a film about batman, even though they are not in any way comparable, and engage my mind in completely different ways'. Sometimes I want to watch a film that meditates on sex addiction, sometimes I want to see batman punch a guy. Sure, there are different degrees of liking, but when a work of art reaches great to me, it becomes unquantifiable against the other 'great' works I have. Thus, I decided to list films from the last decade that may not be the 'best' but for my current mind-set, were the most impactful. I don't know who I'm writing this list for. Probably myself.
Synecdoche, New York - Directed by Charlie Kaufman
The Triplets of Belleville - Directed by Sylvan Chomet
Ratatouille - Directed By Brad Bird
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Directed by Michele Gondry
Where the Wild things are -Directed by Spike Jonze
Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Directed by David Fincher
A Serious Man- Directed by the Coen Brothers
The Departed - Directed by Martin Scorsese
Catch Me if You Can - Directed by Steven Spielberg
Public Enemies -Directed by Michael Mann
Moon - Directed by Duncan Jones
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford - Directed by Andrew Dominik
Sweeney Todd - Directed by Tim Burton
There Will be Blood - Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
The Dark Knight - Directed by Christopher Nolan
Adaptation - Directed by Spike Jonze
Wall-E - Directed by Andrew Stanton
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- Taha
