Iconic Movies That Are Still Actual Today

Cinema
has given us quite a few iconic movies over the decades. Some of them
just had incredible entertainment value, some of them pushed the
boundaries of technology at the time, and yet another group tried to
add a layer of criticism towards society in their meaning.

It’s
the last group that usually ages the worst, since they’re very much
tied to a period in history. But did you know that some of those
iconic movies are actually still ringing true today? Let’s take a
look!

RoboCop

While
RoboCop didn’t really have any deeper meaning at the time of its
creation (apart from “yay, robot policeman!”), the recent remake
updated the story to modern standards. The original already had the
moral dilemma of how far we can go in cybernetically enhancing people
before they lose who they are as a person, and the remake pretty much
shoves that dilemma in your face.

Les
Intouchables

Based
on a true story set in a time when there were no two bigger dividing
factors between people than race and wealth, a rich white handicapped
person hires a poor black person to be his caretaker. A wonderful
tale of how friendship can overcome all the differences between
people, no matter how much society wants you to believe that those
differences can’t be overcome.

1984

I
mean, Google is already listening to everything we say or do, 1984’s
plotline isn’t too far off. I for one welcome our oppressive
overlords that can hear everything I say but hopefully can’t read
my thoughts yet.

The
Terminator

This
is pretty much in line with 1984. The one true factor in the
Terminator storyline that’s always returned is that people created
their own undoing by relying too much on technology. Imagine how bad
it would get if an AI got its hands on all that precious data we are
so keen on storing in the cloud so we can access it at all times.

American
History X

The
ultimate movie about how racism is a stupid thing. Racism will always
be a stupid thing, so this movie will be relevant forever!

Philadelphia

Much
like American History X, this movie will always be relevant because
it proves how stupid homophobia is. Also based on a real story, so
people didn’t always consider homophobia to be stupid. They should
have, but they didn’t know better.

Rambo:
First Blood

There’s
no movie that better illustrates the psychological damage war can do
than Rambo: First Blood.
Sadly the rest of the Rambo series aren’t that good, but this one
is definitely worth a watch. The wars might be different, but the
damage that gets done is very much the same.

The Truman Show

With reality TV shows popping up left, right and center, how are we still to know whether we’re not in a reality show right now? We already know all our hardware can be remotely accessed anyway, so it’s not like it’s not possible. Yeah, this movie just got a whole lot less fun, didn’t it?