When a bad movie changes your life forever – Far Out Magazine

(Credits: Far Out / Poster / Tribeca Film) Wed 4 March 2026 11:30, UK Everyone has that one life-changing discovery movie that sets their life on a completely different trajectory to the one that they’d be on if they hadn’t stumbled upon it, and for me, it’s one I don’t even consider to be all that good. At about 13 or 14, I stumbled upon Gia Coppola’s 2013 Palo Alto on Netflix in the throes of increasingly finding myself obsessed with flicking through Tumblr pages featuring sad-looking teens and bruised knees, the sound of Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence soundtracking these scrolling sessions, sometimes lasting until the early hours. Palo Alto was the perfect film to satiate my craving to bring these images to life in front of my eyes, and thus I clicked on it, and soon I couldn’t stop going back to it. To be honest, the first time I watched it, I felt like I was too naive to fully understand it all. I went to an all-girls school and had hardly any experience of parties, boys, and drinking (I’ll be honest with you, I was a few years into having a chronic illness; I really wasn’t getting
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