Ok, finally, after saying for years that I really need to see Requiem For a Dream, I finally saw it tonight. I think I died a little inside. Whatever childish innocence managed to be left to me after American Psycho disappeared in a puff of smoke (no pun intended) while I watched this film.
It's brilliant. It's real, it's dirty, it's bleak, and yet still darkly humorous when it's not making you want to kill yourself. It shows that addiction can be so much more than just drugs, and that it's so very easy to let things take over your life, whether they be substances, a fixation on certain ideas, or even simply an overwhelming wish for everything to go right, but it ultimately failing because we fail to think of the long term, and think in terms of instant gratification; what will make us feel good in the now, which in the end only gives you unreal expectations, filling your days with denial and delusion.
It's not a happy film, and it is essentially about drugs and addiction. There is no happy ending, the characters make no peaceful resolutions. You will not finish this film and feel good, but the sheer force of the story telling makes this film well worth seeing. Don't deny yourself this view into a world that is not so completely unlike our own. Maybe it's not you, but it could be someone you know or love, or even a friend of a friend. What the film really shows is it could be anyone, and it's so easy to fall. So easy you may not even notice until it's too late.
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Shit, I gotta see this film. Sounds intense.
you look an insane amount like Jared Leto in that film...
Ok, just saw it...
You're right, it's brilliant. But I don't think I can ever watch it again!
I had to grit my teeth for the last ten minutes. Seriously. I have officially fulfilled my depressing movie quota. For life.
American Psycho has nothing on this one. It's a romantic comedy by comparison.
This... wow. Completely blown away. But yeah, probably never watching it again. Ever.
That's what I thought when I watched it first, but the more time that passes I find myself wanting to watch it again.
It makes you FEEL, and it's almost exhilarating experiencing with these characters, and after a while you start to feel more alive for having sat through it...
Yeah, I'm feeling that way too. I'm obsessing over it, just a little. Downloaded the soundtrack, and the remix of the soundtrack...
There are a lot of great images/moments in this film.
Remix soundtrack's great. I had that way before I ever saw the film. (I got a bit obessed with Paul Oakenfold's Aeternal...)
You know what I realized... this movie is what it's like getting high on heroin (not that I know what that's like):
First it's exhilarating and surreal (Summer), but ultimately you crash (Fall+Winter) and feel devastated at the end... finally after a couple of days you start experiencing withdrawal and the cravings start to hit... you need more!
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