Requiem for a Dream

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-06-21 11:55pm

Just saw it. Loved it.

Comments? Thoughts?

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-06-22 12:05am

Feel-good family fun!

I felt dirty after seeing it, actually. I really admire that in a film. Despite what many critics promote, a movie can be depressing, disturbing, or downright nauseating and still be good. If it can provoke thought and depth of feeling, someone's doing their job.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-06-22 12:09am

Frank Hipper wrote:I felt dirty after seeing it, actually. I really admire that in a film. Despite what many critics promote, a movie can be depressing, disturbing, or downright nauseating and still be good. If it can provoke thought and depth of feeling, someone's doing their job.

Exactly. It disturbed, shocked, offended, and disturbed me. I thought it was great. It did what it intended excellently.

EDIT: And the idea of lesbian sex has never seemed so unattractive or downright repulsive as in that movie.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-06-22 12:29am

The lesbian scene was made even worse by the fact that I'm in love with Jennifer Connelly. It may sound like heresy, but it's enough to get one to swear off pornography altogether.

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2003-06-22 12:35am

Excellant, yet quite disturbing. Although I would like to own it, I doubt I would ever watch it. Makes no sense, I know.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-06-22 01:02am

Durran Korr wrote:The lesbian scene was made even worse by the fact that I'm in love with Jennifer Connelly. It may sound like heresy, but it's enough to get one to swear off pornography altogether.

I love her too, and it disturbed me too. Made me think how many girls in porn I watch might be crack heads.

Stick with the popular rich porn stars.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-06-22 02:46am

Durran Korr wrote:The lesbian scene was made even worse by the fact that I'm in love with Jennifer Connelly. It may sound like heresy, but it's enough to get one to swear off pornography altogether.

That was probably the point: to show you just to what despicable and haunting lengths drug addicts are willing to go to ge their fixes. It wasn't meant to be sexy, just disturbing.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-06-22 11:23am

Great anti-drug movie and very stylish at the same time. I liked it although it was very depressing and disturbing. Very well done.

I did get tired of the little "vignettes" or whatever you call them that they ran whenever anyone was doing drugs.

Now, I'm still waiting for the super unedited version with the full-on view of
the ass-to-ass action.

Still, I probably felt the most sorry for Jennifer Connelly's character at the end of the movie.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-06-22 11:26am

Very good and freaky movie.

I liked how the DVD was set up ...plus the way they showed how far people can go down.

Plus who doesn't like the JC scene

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-06-22 11:36am

Ghost Rider wrote:Very good and freaky movie.

I liked how the DVD was set up ...plus the way they showed how far people can go down.

Plus who doesn't like the JC scene

The stupid opening page for the DVD threw me at first. I hadn't had my player long at the time and when it came up with that annoying infomercial running....and then the selections weren't that obvious.

Keith David had it going on in that movie didn't he?

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-06-22 11:42am

The best movie of that sorts I've seen since Fight Club, I really wouldn't say Brilliant but it was a great great movie.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-06-22 11:44am

Oh, and I have a lot more respect for Marylon Wayon as an actor, before that movie I could never see him doing a serious movie well.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-06-22 04:54pm

That was a fucked up movie.

Perinquus · Post by **Perinquus** » 2003-06-22 05:39pm

Illuminatus Primus wrote:Exactly. It disturbed, shocked, offended, and disturbed me. I thought it was great. It did what it intended excellently.

EDIT: And the idea of lesbian sex has never seemed so unattractive or downright repulsive as in that movie.

That's because this scene did not show a consensual act between two people sharing a mutual attraction. It showed a woman who was so degraded morally by her addiction, that she would not hesitate to jump on a stage and perform, on command like a trained seal, the most explicit sex acts, all for the benefit of a leering, howling mob of drooling goons. It was meant to be ugly and cheap, and it was. It was also interesting in comparison to an earlier scene when she had sex with a guy she didn't like to get money for drugs, and was so repulsed by it that afterward she became physically ill and threw up in revulsion. Yet by the end of the film, she can do live porn and lesbian sex onstage, and the only reaction we see from her afterward is a euphoric smile as she luxuriates in her drug high.

It shows pretty effectively and graphically how drug addiction takes over a person's life and makes her (or him) willing to go to lengths the same person could not even have imagined before becoming a junkie. As a cop who deals with junkies, and sees their descent take place, I can tell you that it really is like this.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-06-23 12:46am

It definitely did that job well.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-06-23 01:40am

Perinquus wrote: That's because this scene did not show a consensual act between two people sharing a mutual attraction. It showed a woman who was so degraded morally by her addiction, that she would not hesitate to jump on a stage and perform, on command like a trained seal, the most explicit sex acts, all for the benefit of a leering, howling mob of drooling goons. It was meant to be ugly and cheap, and it was. It was also interesting in comparison to an earlier scene when she had sex with a guy she didn't like to get money for drugs, and was so repulsed by it that afterward she became physically ill and threw up in revulsion. Yet by the end of the film, she can do live porn and lesbian sex onstage, and the only reaction we see from her afterward is a euphoric smile as she luxuriates in her drug high.

I think I misinterpreted the last bit a little. I thought she intially was in the drug high but then she curled up in the "I want my mommy" fetal ball like the rest of the characters who were all screwed up by drugs. Going by the way you stated it it's even creepier than what I originally thought.

Perinquus wrote: It shows pretty effectively and graphically how drug addiction takes over a person's life and makes her (or him) willing to go to lengths the same person could not even have imagined before becoming a junkie. As a cop who deals with junkies, and sees their descent take place, I can tell you that it really is like this.

I only see the fringes of the aftermath of people being addicts since I only see them when they end up in the hospital or when they have kids who are born addicted. I think that's bad enough. The alcohlics I can understand but with those addicted to illegal substances I always wonder what originally made them think trying whatever they ended up hooked on was a good idea?

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2003-06-23 03:49am

Great movie. I can only watch in once per year, but a great movie. "Ass to ass! Ass to ass!!"

Try watching Requiem For A Dream followed by Dancer In The Dark on the same day. It'll make you wanna kill yourself.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-06-23 12:51pm

SPOOFE wrote:Great movie. I can only watch in once per year, but a great movie. "Ass to ass! Ass to ass!!"

It still bothers me. I feel dirty thinking Connelly is gorgeous when I see her, and lesbian porn bothered me for a week after that.

I was anything but interested in that scene. Horrifying.

SPOOFE wrote:Try watching Requiem For A Dream followed by Dancer In The Dark on the same day. It'll make you wanna kill yourself.

Jesus.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-06-23 02:51pm

I saw it along time ago... i really didn't like it. Too boring,

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