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marbica

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i had no idea where to post this because i am rather cautious about my activity on bluelight, i'm a pacifist for the most part (unless i know you very well) and i don't want to get started in pissing anyone off that i don't know or having my feelings singed by someone who's in a bitchy mood and decides to flame me. but there has to be a post about "requiem for a dream" somewhere on this board, and i searched and didn't find one. i searched 3 times and did NOT find one, which for one, surprised me, and two, shocked me. so i decided upon "words" for the reason that this is a much more accepting forum than the others, i would say. especially the chat room. that place can be vicious.
this is a movie that i can say, even while feeling cheesy for uttering the words, has changed me. i just saw it last night and i didn't want to go to bed afterwards because i knew i would dream about it. and i did, but it wasn't as disturbing as the film (thank god). this is not intended as a film criticism, so if people (like my acting teacher) want to comment on the actual filmmaking, how the movie was nothing in comparison to the book, how the movie warped the original story, how the depiction of drugs was over the top, too much, a rare case picked out of a myriad of users, unfair, etc etc, then start your own topic. i want to talk about my reaction (and, obviously, if anyone else had a similar reaction). i'm not sure yet what to name the feeling that i got from it. it was so powerful, whether it was a "good" film or not is beside the point. there's just a certain something inside me that got tweaked over and over again by this film and i was moved so much that i sat in silence in the theatre with my three friends curled up in a ball shaking and whimpering until the credits ended. then we tried to avoid the topic on the way back to my friend's apartment and cheer each other up, but when we got back at 3am, we ended up sitting around a table and talking, intially about the movie, but stemming into our own problems. maybe the movie was a catalyst to make you reeavluate everything, it did a little bit of that for me. that's a good thing. it was a (pardon the metaphor) high voltage emotional shock. but still, even if i got over the initial shock, i just think of an image that my brain conveniently clipped and recorded for me and i get all wound up again. and that violin theme keeps on running through my head. i don't know what to think. i don't know how to think about anything else right now.
please share your reactions.
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hey love!! i have never seen that movie but your posting really caught my eye. i'm very interested in seeing it now. i think perhaps i will rent it as soon as i get the chance. it sounds incredible!
 
it's still in theatres, i don't know if it will be the same at home, so go for it
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thanks for responding
 
Marbica, mad props to you for posting about requiem. I was also waiting for someone on bluelight to say something about it.
I fucking LOVE that movie. I saw it when it first came around because I knew it was by the same director who made Pi and I like that movie alot as well.
My reaction to the movie (right after seeing it) was profound loneliness I guess. I immediately wanted to go find my gf and just hug the living shit out of that woman (which I couldnt do 'cause it was like 2am)
I've heard people bitch about this movie saying that it paints an unfair picture of drug use, but I don't realy agree with that. The fact is (in my opinion) the movie has nothing at all to do with drug use; that's just what the director used to tell a story about the human condition and the importance of family.
I think that is the message the movie was trying to send - that family & friends are so important and you can't take the chance of fucking things up for yourself and losing them. I think everyone should see Requiem For A Dream. No matter what you get out of it it's VERY kickass. And I'll tell ya this: Even I (who have seen what heroin-addiction can do & worked in a nursing home) was shocked senseless by the time the movie was over.
GO SEE IT!!!
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"The spirit-world doth open lie,
thy sense is shut; thy heart is dead.
Up, scholar, lave with courage-high
thine earthly breast in the morning red!" -Goethe
 
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