Take "The Parallax Test"

Alan J. Pakula's 1974 masterpiece The Parallax View is a film that just gets better with age, and is correctly regarded by film scholars, critics and cinefiles alike as the greatest paranoid political thriller ever made.

Warren Beatty plays a washed-up reporter from a third-rate Oregon newspaper who stumbles upon the story of the century: all the high-profile political assassinations of years past have been masterminded by the shadowy Parallax Corporation, headhunters, if you will, for sociopaths, societal deviants and misguided idealists, all of whom are equipped with the perfect psychological baggage to be killers-for-hire.

This sequence, the one that is still talked about 35 years later, is a montage of images that comprise the Parallax Corp's "test" for potential candidates. As reporter Beatty infiltrates the Parallax HQ in downtown L.A., we the audience get to take the test with him. It's one of the greatest montages in film history, and is sure to get under your skin and stay with you long after you've navigated elsewhere. Enjoy...and do let us know your test results!


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