Some influences:
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A. D¨oring and C. Isham, “ ‘What is a Thing?’: Topos Theory in the Foundations of Physics”
When in the existential crisis, meet some gems in this space:
Films
Take it easy first and start with these:
- Special mention: Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society is pertinent to college or high-school students.
- Richard Linklater- Boyhood, Before Trilogy
- Dennis Villeneuve Arrival, Enemy, Prisoners, Incendies, Sicario, any non-popular movie by him
- Alejandro González Iñárritu Birdman, Babel, 21 Grams, Amores Perros, The Revenant, Biutiful
- Jim Carrey: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, Truman Show, The Bad Batch
- Philip Seymour Hoffman in Synecdoche New York
- Damien Chazelle: Whiplash, La La Land
Slowly move to the Legends:
- Her by Spike Jonze (since we are in technological institute)
- Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky or any of his other films (Mirror, Solaris, Andrei Rublev, Nostalghia)
- Winter’s Night, Persona (bonus identity crisis), Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman (any other)
- Taste of Cherry by Abbas Kiarostami
- A Ghost Story by David Lowry
- Manchester by the Sea by Kenneth Lonergan
- The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson (or There will be blood, Phantom Thread, Punch Drunk Love, Magnolia)
Once you know your way, use the linked page to optimize A good movie to watch
- Series
- Rick and Morty
- True Detective season 1
- Twin peaks by David Lynch
- Death Note
Music
- Ludovico Einaudi
- Frank Ocean- Blond
- Daniel Caesar
- Hans Zimmer
- Khalid (khu-leed)
- Sam Smith
- Coldplay
- Kodaline
Books
- I am that by Nisargadatta
- Freedom from the Known by Jiddu Krishnamurthy
- Advaita Vedanta by Shankaracharya
- I am by Ramana Maharishi
- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda
- Upanishads - Katha Upanishad
- Dao De Ching -Laozi
- Analects by Confucius
- Being and Nothingness- Jean Paul Sartre