As the semester winds down and students have to face the unfortunate truth that final exams are days away, students will look for anything to distract themselves. Fortunately, The Daily Tar Heel is here to help with the top five movies to watch when you’re procrastinating studying for finals.
Home Alone:
One of the most iconic Christmas movies of all time, “Home Alone” tells the story of a kid (Kevin) who finds himself fending off incompetent burglars over the holidays.
Few movies can be equally as funny in college as they were when you were 7, but that is definitely the case for “Home Alone.” There is an inherent joy in watching Kevin get to live out every little kid’s fantasy of not having any parents telling them what to do. The movie embraces its absurdity and never tries to realistically portray its subject material. Instead, it just has fun in a fantasy world, providing the perfect escape from finals.
Memento:
“Memento” follows a man with crippling short-term memory loss as he tries to find his wife’s murderer.
Before he made big budget blockbusters like “The Dark Knight” and “Interstellar,” Christopher Nolan made what is arguably his best movie, “Memento.” The narrative structure is unlike almost any other movie and will engross viewers immediately with its strange and perplexing storyline. Nolan slowly drags us deeper into his intricately woven web with each subsequent clue illuminating the dark forces at play, all of which culminate in an utterly chilling ending.