“The Book of the New Sun” exists and is one of the most amazing things ever written. I can’t recommend it enough but it comes with the caveat that you don’t “read Gene Wolfe, you reread him”.

https://youtu.be/T4GYEQynCv0

“Paths of Glory” is one of Kubrick’s most underated films (or at least lesser known) and the ending is pure emotional power.

The fact that you just spent almost 90 minutes hating humanity and the shitty situations in which we put ourselves as a species, only to be able to come away from the film thinking “we’re not all bad” because of what happens in the final 10 minutes blows my mind.

If you haven’t seen it, I can’t recommend it enough.