Mickey 17
As someone who’s always looking for the philosophical approach in a movie, I just can’t help but appreciate how this one brings up the moral dilemma of something as huge as "printing" a human being. It realistically shows how such an event could change our belief system — shifting focus more toward the idea of God as "the one and only," instead of mainly seeing Him as the creator and savior of our species. It touches on how faith can and does control people, and the idea of living your punishment as if you were wrong from the start.
We could also approach the idea of the different "Mickeys" as representing the different paths we take in life — how our personality changes through our actions. The ending proves this point perfectly when the main character gives a monologue realizing that the past is over, and all the choices he could have made are gone, both physically (as the other Mickeys die) and metaphorically (through the different choices he made).
Such a meaningful story. Ahead of its time, yet still deeply connected to what's happening in the world today.
This might be the first movie to truly capture metamodernism in its purest form. Mickey 17 leans more toward modernism, embodying sincerity and faith in meaning, while Nasha is rebellious and questions the current state of things, fitting the postmodern archetype. Together, they create one of the clearest metamodern examples of cinema I’ve seen so far.