From Jonathan Birch on Twitter:
What are your favourite nonviolent movies? I don’t mean romcoms, I mean movies that in some way exemplify or explore the idea of nonviolence.
Sorry, but Gandhi doesn’t do it for me. What actually comes to mind is that old Bruce Dern movie Silent Running. Or how about Babette’s Feast? The LLMs in general cough up politically sanctimonious movies. Is it crazy to suggest Vincent Ward’s Map of the Human Heart, admittedly a tragic work too? Terence Malick’s Tree of Life is a natural pick, but somehow it has never registered with me. Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night surely is in contention.
