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Requiem For A Dream

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Who's seen it??
I thought it was brilliant, so well made, but it left me feeling shattered, one of the darkest movies i've ever seen, and it hits a little too close to home at times.
 
im so with you hey. fucking powerful headfuck, go and see it if you value good movies.
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Awesome film... but don't see it if you're feeling down. It's very, very dark.
Thanks for the free tix Milkybar
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"I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes, although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect."
Brains, International Rescue Engineer, The Thunderbirds.
 
I concur, brilliant.
It hit very close to home for me as i had a friend like that and the things i witnessed were comparable.
I would say if u had a friend who was travelling down the path of addiction, esp injecting substances, show them that movie. Will be like shock therapy to them.
However would u believe when i saw it, there were a few people in the cinema LAUGHING at certain scenes. I was disgusted. As my friend pointed out, some people giggle as a way of coping when they see something horrible.
Although this was different. They would laugh during the scenes when the the lady was hallucinating, seeing the fridge, being force fed, etc.
Clearly the fools didnt understand what was happening; what it means to be addicted to something, the utterly distressful nature of what she was going throgh, the paranoia, the hallucinations, the horrific consequences of the changes induced in her brain.
I was like this isnt meant to be funny; it partly ruined the movie for me and if i was a different person i think it would have stood up in the theatre and screamed as it was just disgraceful.
 
I also concur, an incredible film. All the stories of addiction are given the spin of horror film techniques, and I was interested to read that several good web film critics thought it was possibly the greatest anti-drug propganda movie ever, and certainly I don't think that's far from the truth. But it's not a film of lies, because it seems to mirror reality so closely. The old woman and the diet pills was wrenching.
 
biscuit . . . i think we might have been in the same cinema (luna wed 9.30 session??) because throughout the whole thing a lot of people were laughing, however i think that finding humour in something like that only relates to lack of understanding.
Anyway my favourite part, or more, the part that got to me the most was when marion is on the phone to him and he says he wants to see her, and she says 'come today', but he can't, obviously, and then it just goes downhill from there . . . otherwise the imagery and parallel stories were so so well done, the people laughing obviously missed the point completely.
 
Is this movie being shown in Melb??????
I'd really like to see it, but I haven't found any screening sessions in any of the cinema's in Melb.
 
Pekkie (and anybody else who wants to know: Requiem for a dream is screening currently in Melbourne at the Como (cnr. Toorak rd and Chapel st), The George (Fitzroy st), the Kino (Collins st, city) and The Nova (Lygon st).
 
almost abby.
7:15 session, the one before, so seems the giggling a tad widespread.
 
certain bits of the movie were funny, the whole movie wasnt just one long dark flick...
and maybe the people were laughing out of irony? perhaps the movie was close to home, or they had experienced it...
i know i laughed during the movie, some bits i found funny, other bits i laughed out of the shear grossness...
there was nothing funny about the final 15-20 minutes tho, and i didnt laugh..
one point is in those last minutes i felt it was an OVERLOAD ... obviously the director wanted to leave an effect, which it did..
out of all the charactors but it was the girlfriend and her predicament which made me feal the worst..that final scene with all the guys with the torches made me feal utterly sick.
 
Darren Aronofsky is, without doubt, a god.
He's directing the next Batman film so let's see how he cooks with cheese.
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Personally I didn't find the movie funny at all, but I guess that's because I know a few heroin addicts and well it hit a little too hard and too close. In a lot of the scenes I felt like crying.
Overall I thought of it as a wake up call for me, in a few different ways. Also I thought that the movie was portrayed in a realistic light too, not like what other people would imagine drug addiction to be like.
 
heh, I saw it last night and in my session no-one even dared to cough or anything while it was on.
I agree with the other person, it is more of an experience then an enjoyable hour and 40 minutes.
It is sad when you can relate to some of the things shown on there - and thats the worst part about the film...
 
Very powerful film. I agree the last 20 minutes it just picks up the pace and spirals deeper and deeper into darkness.
For Marrion, Tyrone and Harry's mother you could see the self esteem/self image issues they had that were closely intertwined with their addiction. However with Harry I never felt you got to know him enough compared to the other three.
 
'marion deserved what she got' . . . ???? who are you - Stan Zemanick??
FUCK THAT! if anyone deserved what they got it was Harry, he kept fucking shooting up in to that fucked arm!! Marion's story was just incredibly tragic.
 
None of them deserved what they got. It was horrible. But Marion was the only one with a smile on her face at the end which made it a little more difficult to sympathize with her. At least I think thats what he meant.
 
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