Requiem for a dream

i've come to think of requiem as not simply a film but an EXPERIENCE.

it has a visceral impact that gets under your skin, touches deep nerves and exposes them raw. the film doesn't make the mistake of judging the characters, it doesn't take a moral stance at all. i showed it to a christian friend who simply summed it all up by saying they got what they deserved. so much for compassion.

the hero of the film is addiction. the music is beautiful and terrifying, hard to listen to without visualizing all the unforgettble images that the film burns into your brain. one of the all time landmark films.

 

Thats one of my favorite movies! Jared Leto has an amazing voice (30 seconds to mars)! Jennifer Connoly is one of my favorite actresses.

 

^^I really don't see how that has any bearing or really even a solid connection to the film (it's not like they appear on the soundtrack with that terrible shit)

and I also would like to correct you, and say he has a terrible singing voice and that 30 Seconds To Mars is a pathetic attempt to jump on the current money train

 

Ya know Duck, I thought the same thing when I seen 30 Seconds in a magazine looking waaaaaaay more emo/hipster than they did before (back when nu metal and whatnot was cool).

Great movie though. But as far as films about heroin go, nothing beats Trainspotting.

 

holy shit that was a powerful movie. I'm fucking crying. It started out so great and then it just fuck man I don't know. Fuck. Man I had no idea what I was getting into. And I was going to smoke pot with my friend this weekend for the first time. But I guess I have nothing to worry about.

Mondoglove's right. That is the best movie I have ever seen. I thought shawshank was good, but this movie makes you feel it.

 

I feel like crap now. They set you up, too, with the light beginning with Harry in love...that was put together so well, I should probably read the book.

 

I won't be able to think about sex or drugs for the next week. I can't get over it- this movie brought me to tears. Creepy though.

 

Exactly my opinion as well! It was good, but I don't want to watch it again. Which I always want to do with good movies at some point.

 

ahh i love this movie, it warped my whole perception of drugs & addiction. I don't get all you people saying trainspoting was better, it doesn't have anywhere near the same impact as requiem does, but hey each to their own i guess I have to say Requiem is one of those movies everybody has to see in their life at least once! Also I didn't know there was a book ill have to check that out

 

Well, I think a lot of it is how fanciful Requiem is.
It takes on such a dark matter, but doesn't seem to respect it enough to treat it realistically.
Everyone ends horrible - the end - drugs are bad.
Too idealistic for many, I would think.

 

I liked the giant refridgerator puppet

 

Yeh thats a fair call i can see where your coming from but my experience with drugs & friends who have taken drugs is nothing good comes from it, the end. On the other hand this thread has given me alot to think about the next time i watch the movie. I will have to re-watch it once my mother gives me back requiem, trainspoting and human traffic that i lent to her as they are must see films

 

I don't disagree much about drug addiction (though I don't know so much about use.)
However, the way the film was done, it just made it seem too story like for my taste.
The suspension of belief in the plot particularly bothered me. (New York runnign out of heroin, hah)

 

Awsome movie, the whole old lady on uppers part was really creepy

 

the movies super emotionally draining for me...I watch it very rarely...but I love it

 

I know what you mean, but I've only seen it once. When I rate movies in my head, I think about watching it again. Movies like Shawshank and Forrest Gump I love, and I can see again and again, and they are very emotional. But this movie was so touching, I don't think I'd want to. But I will. The funny thing is, I didn't want to watch it to begin with, it was just on and I got hooked. It was the music, I think. Its scary what you don't have control over...and strangely ironic.

 

And another thing....ok I actually have started reading the book, I'm kinda getting into this...but ok, its not just about addictions....well it is, but its about being addicted to dreams, to ideals, and to hope, which makes it both the coolest and most depressing thing ever. Specifically the ideals and double standards in the American dream are critisized, thats the most obvious part. But I've been reading some William Blake...you guys should read the chimney sweeper, its short and relevant...the point being people hide in their dreams and use other things to hide, and I know this sounds like you've heard it a billion times before, but the movie and the book do such a good job at showing you....life.....experience...that life and experience lead to the losing of innocence and that innocence is merely the belief that good and evil are two separate entities, where as there is nothing in reality. Woah...I can't really explain it....but hopefully thhis helps some of you with your movie experience, but please read some of William Blake, especially the Chimney Sweeper, and I think the Tyger...very relevant, I'd say. Ahhhhh fuck this shit brings you down

 

^ See, I don't think the movie portrayed that clear enough. Maybe the book does a better job of it.

 

Ya, you do get it a bit better in the book, but thats just because they/re are some differences and some details left out in the movie.

 

^ I'll have to check out the book, the library trip after next, I only like to get one movie book a trip and next one is going to be Leaving Las Vegas =D