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Reqiuem For A Dream

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SkeletonM

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First of all I gotta say if you haven't seen Requiem for a Dream, see it. Amazing movie, kinda depressing tho.
But anyways.. to anybody who has seen it, any idea what they're injecting and snorting? My guess through the whole movie was heroin, but I read an article where a person said it was cocaine. And in the movie their pupils always dilate, not constrict, so this could be right. But from what I've heard, the people look and act like they're on H... course I could be wrong, I've never seen anyone on either in real life.
Anyways, yeah, if anybody knows I'd really like to know
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Thanks. Sorry if this post seems to ramble, reading it over now it does seem a bit messed but I'm too lazy to fix
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-SkeletonM
 
I've always thought heroin b/c thats the impression I got as well as the only thing I've heard, however before I posted, I started doing some quick checks, and the votes aren't in, everyone has a different opinion, its SOOOO confusing, like checkout this review from
http://dfw.citysearch.com/E/M/DALTX/0000/19/09/cs1.html
The principal narcotic of choice is king HEROIN, injected whenever possible by Harry (Jared Leto), his loving girlfriend (Jennifer Connelly) and his best buddy Tyrone (an effective dramatic turn by Marlon Wayans). Many of the film's countless edits are used to capture the act of shooting up, detailed in rapidly cut close-ups: The junk is cut, then cooked; the veins fill up, the pupils DILATE. Each action is accompanied by an appropriately crisp, split-second sound; Requiem for a Dream is one of the most vivid sensory film experiences of recent memory.
reading that actually made me remember the dilation scenes again. I personally have never noticed pupil dilation on coke but I've never checked for it, and erowid claims it causes it.
here are various sources:
supporting heroin http://www.videoace.com/requiem_dream_dvd.htm http://www.scarecrow.com/News/titles/title_00157.htm http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/11.09.00/requiem-0045.html http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,392755,00.html http://www.allwatchers.com/Topics/Info_3560.asp http://www.plume-noire.com/movies/reviews/requiemforadream.html http://www.the11thhour.com/archives/072000/moviereviews/requiemforadream.html http://www.98six.com/cgi-bin/98six_display.pl/display_article/98six?media_id=5593
supporting coke
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0180093#comment http://www.infoculture.cbc.ca/archives/filmtv/filmtv_12032000_requiemreview.phtml
both
http://www.screenit.com/movies/2000/requiem_for_a_dream.html
note: i easilly could have found more coke references but got lazy, so the # of links does not represent anything in particular.
good quote from www.cinetalk.com
"Requiem for a Dream” makes you realize that there is no difference between diet pills and heroin; both are alien substances that don’t belong in the human body, and both have the same effects--a complete destruction and paralysis of the body and mind, not to mention the lives of those associated with the addict."
and yes, for the record, I am rather bored right now (though by chance I did happen to start an extremely similar thread about Traffic)....GO OUT & SEE REQUIEM NOW!
 
it's H. small discrepincy with the pupil dialation where it should be constricting. looks like they might be blowing some coke in the movie with the lines they throw down, but who knows, that could also be H.
peace, outkast
 
Same title, written by Hubert Selby Jr. If you like Requiem, move on to Last Exit to Brooklyn and Song of the Silent Snow. His books are a kick in the teeth, but well worth it.
 
on the DVD, in the "anotomy of a scene" (really cool to watch, talks about the shootin0up scenes, etc.).. on the drawing board, they label the dilating shot as "pupils dilate to pinpoint" .. that makes us all even more confused, cause pinpoints are small (what i thought H does to your pupils), but then they say "dilate" .. i was having this exact same confusion and it made me laugh that i found it on here cause i was about to post the same damn question.
 
They are doing heroin. They even call it "smack" in the movie. Now if you've ever heard smack being a nickname for coke than correct me now, but I'm pretty sure that should say a lot.
Even the lines were heroin I believe, I think the girl was just too pussy to shoot up.
Also, I have had many discussions about the pupil thing and ended up with the conclusion that it is heroin, and they just did the pupil dialation because it is a general misconception the public has that being high = dialated pupils, no matter what the substance. I am almost posative it was merely an image they were trying to get across rather than an attempt at being scientifically correct.
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yupp, pupils contract on H (and also on G i have noticed lately ;-)
coke dilates. For the sake of the misguided audience they threw in some dilated pupil shots to illustrate the'yre high
 
Wow, chill out people....its just a movie. I haven't seen it myself, but by your descriptions it sounds like heroin with the exception that the director didn't get every SINGLE detail of heroin use portrayed correctly. But once again, ITS ONLY A MOVIE! And the majority of viewers are not nit-picking junkies like ourselves!
 
luckE_Z--
sounds to me like you're the one who needs to calm down. I pretty much stated just what you said. its a generally accepted fact that errors are madein the entertainment business, and people were just curious about what would really happen if it were taking place for real.
peace
--ch
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AIM - CaucasianHomeboy
 
i asked this same question after i saw it, my girl said they shot speed, thats why his arm got all fucked up, but they acted like it was H so i still believe they shot up heroin, im not sure what they snorted tho
Peace!
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what movies aren't correct. next you are going to tell me that the Glock handgun is not made of porcelin to avoid metal detectors, or that the human body doesnt generate enough electricity to fuel a light bulb.
 
I don't see it as "just a movie"..it was partially a reflection of society, even if highly dramatized. Society is overly dramatic anyway, so it just emphasizes that.
I agree that the dilation was to fit majority of the public's view of what the state of high is phyically. But it's stupid and cliche to cater to the public's perpetual ignorance.
For a movie--it should be a little educating. Edutainment, good combo.
By showing the actuality of H's effect, the pinned pupils, this could've piqued people to step outside their everyday realm and learn something new by researching the class of drugs that cause this bizarre eye effect, and why it happens.
Moreover, i disagree that H--being a downer--could cause dilation as well.
Downers slow everything down...that's where the constriction comes from. What would be upp'ing as to dilate the pupils? That's just illogical.
Erowid states that weed causes dilation, but i've seen people high as a kite and their pupils stayed at the norm. I have no idea how this can be, and it's aggrivating.
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~*Why am I so curious?..
this territory is dangerous..*~
Got a cat named Easter he says, "will you ever learn? you're just an
empty cage, girl, if you kill the bird"...
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