Film Requiem For a Dream

[madhatter09]

this movie is straight bananas.

 

[Pillthrill]

have you actually seen the entire film?

No I haven't. Some watched it in college and I heard them saying that it was pretty unrealistic that the guy loses his arm and it just kinda turned me off to it. Maybe I saw it as a over the top anti-drug bs film. But now I think I'll have to watch it.

 

[L2R]

i really recommend it. leave your expectations at the door. it's not just about drugs.

 

[got beans?]

you didn't mention the double ended 'ass to ass' dildo scene!! how could you NOT mention that specificaly!!

that must be a metaphor for... lemme guess... putting unnatural/unhealthy stuff in your body fucks you over? or maybe it's more simple than that like... don't be a coke-whore...

 

[undead]

i don't understand the "i hate it because it's popular" mentality. it's one thing to grow out of a certain style of cinematography based on your growing knowledge of film and it's inner workings, that's bound to happen, but to actively say you hate a movie because everyone else says how much they love it??? that's more cliche than saying you love it simply because you're a drug user, in my opinion.

this movie is different, it's creative, and it's more refreshing than your typical drug use glory story. i understand this movie has some inaccuracies encompassing your minor details of drug use that the typical non-drug user viewer won't understand, but as mentioned before, it was intentionally done for the reason being that the typical non-drug user viewer needed something to correlate drug use to. how many movies that you've seen are 100% accurate to the finest detail? i'm pretty sure this movie hit it's basic points on the head, it did it in a unique and creative way, and it went a different route than to just show you the glorious "i can do anything" way of life that most drug movies tend to show you. so what if it's not 100% accurate? since when is that something anyone ever expected on ANY film???

 

[bRoken&foRgoTTen]

I finally sat down and watched this movie for the first time last week.
What a fucking piece of shit.
I dont know what else to say that has not already been expressed in this thread, so we will leave it at that.

 

[Dtergent]

You saw Aronofsky speak right before Pi came out, and he explained some things about why Requiem for a Dream sucked?

I am a little confused by the timeline.

Pi came out before Requiem.

I just saw my journal the other day, and I saw him in 2003

Someone asked him why he made Pi, and he said "Because if I didn't I would be hungry"

 

[Feels]

A really awful film. Irritatingly one-note and melodramatic, not to mention emotionally manipulative. Director uses a lot of flashy tricks which just get annoying after not very long. The "message" is simple and obvious... just a bad, bad film that gets ridiculously high praise.

 

[flat line]

ass 2 ass

 

[PoOkIeHeAd]

A really awful film. Irritatingly one-note and melodramatic, not to mention emotionally manipulative. Director uses a lot of flashy tricks which just get annoying after not very long. The "message" is simple and obvious... just a bad, bad film that gets ridiculously high praise.

I praise you for ur bluntness but unfortunately I do not agree. The movie delivers a important msg in a really powerful way. Yes the story has been told before but the emotional attachment the movie creates b/w the characters and the audience is innovative and profound. That is what sets the movie apart. I love the emotional rollercoaster it sends you on endling w/ only leaving you heartbroken at the end. I mean come on its really unrivaled even to this day.

I dunno I guess I see your point in some ways but its a powerful. Reminds me in some light of the movie KIDS and the impact/influence that had.

 

[thecorpsjohnb]

in my opinion Trainspotting killed this movie. evan tho my friends disagree.

 

[Feels]

I praise you for ur bluntness but unfortunately I do not agree. The movie delivers a important msg in a really powerful way. Yes the story has been told before but the emotional attachment the movie creates b/w the characters and the audience is innovative and profound. That is what sets the movie apart. I love the emotional rollercoaster it sends you on endling w/ only leaving you heartbroken at the end. I mean come on its really unrivaled even to this day.

I dunno I guess I see your point in some ways but its a powerful. Reminds me in some light of the movie KIDS and the impact/influence that had.

I just think it's nothing special, the director has a gimmicky, show-offy quality to his work. And putting all of your characters through the wringer (in increasingly outrageous and unrealistically heinous ways) seems to me a cheap trick by a filmmaker to reel in emotion from the viewer. Spielberg is the master of that kind of manipulative, ultra-subjective toying. That's what Requiem feels like to me: just a human sideshow of unnecessary pain and tortue to gawk at. There's no depth there.

 

[ratio]

I first saw this film for the first time in 9th grade. I fell in love with it. Darren Aronofsky did a wonderful job directing. He did a lot of things that haven't been done before in film. The snorri-cam sequences were experimental and he nailed it. The writing was amazing, there are lines from that film that will never leave my head. The editing was also revolutionary to modern film. I can understand how some of you would not like this film, saying its a two hour anti-drug commercial or what not but were all entitled to our own opinions. I enjoyed it. Its very gritty, and it is real. With some exaggeration of course, but what is a story without any exaggeration?

 

[SHROOMS!!!]

great movie i dont know why anyone wouldnt like it

 

[L O V E L I F E]

"One of the ten most RELEVANT films of our generation."

- LL

 

[RedLeader]

great movie i dont know why anyone wouldnt like it

Uhh...because a lot of less-publicized/promoted films have captured the essence of addiction much better?

 

[a100unitSHOT]

he tells his girl that he called his mom to give her something to look forward to... i DISTINCTLY remember that because it was a turning point for ME in this film... that's when I started to feel for the mom the most....
I'm totally confused where exactly is this? Like how late? what's the scene?

It wasn't in there.

I personally love the movie, but that's just being redundant in here. The first time I saw it, I had never done a drug in my life, and it was still one of my favorite movies of all time back then. I obviously didn't take it as an anti-drug commercial seeing as I'm a dope addict now, but I just thought it was a great movie. Very easy to lose yourself in. I love the directing, acting... well, the whole thing.

 

[The Chemist]

i love the movie, and i didn't see it as anti-drug at all.

 

[Midflight]

i just bought the blu ray widescreen tonight from walmart. 12$ shipped. Can't beat that!

 

[Tigerbl00d]

I think that the Addiction vs. selfishness debate is absolutely absurd. Its both. Their addictions have provoked the selfishness within themselves that we all have. Yet there are still moments when they show love towards each other that you can see them for who they really are.

This movie hit me very deep considering my familys history of drug abuse, and problems i have had with my own selfishness. Loved it.

haha and i watched this with my mom dad girlfriend aunt cousins. none of us knew what were were about too see other than we heard it was good. = INTENSE