Requiem for a dream

Falagar · 02-01-2004, 10:19 AM

Anyone seen this movie? A real shocker...long time since I saw it now, and it still has an effect me.

The music was used in an edited version in the trailer for The Two Towers.

FoolofaTook · 02-01-2004, 03:50 PM

I've seen it. It's amazing.

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The music was used in an edited version in the trailer for The Two Towers

Ya I noticed that too.

Lótiel · 02-01-2004, 09:10 PM

I just saw it for the second time, it´s really gruesom. I have the soundtrack, and whenever I listen to it I get chills. The music is good, but it reminds me of the film.

Shadowfax · 02-02-2004, 06:20 AM

What's it about?

Falagar · 02-02-2004, 01:00 PM

There are a couple of reviews on IMDB, I'd suggest reading them: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/
It's about drugs, really well-made and on the same time really disturbing and creepy.

zinnite · 02-02-2004, 04:52 PM

Well, it's not so much about drugs as it is about addiction. You've got the main characters also addicted to television, food, sex, sunshine, approval from others, etc. In the end, there is only one addiction that the film (and the book) really cares about, and to which all the others are secondary: all of the characters are addicted to hope. Everything else the individuals go through is simply to attain their hopes and dreams, and they are so blinded by hope they don't see how their other addictions, which are all simply a means to an end, are destroying any chance they have of attaining their dreams.

The film might not be everyone's cup of tea, as it is very graphic and disturbing, but I think everyone should see it at least once, because everyone is addicted to hope. Besides, it is a beautiful film with the most amazing cinimatography and acting I've seen in years.

02-01-2004, 10:19 AM	#1
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	Requiem for a dream Anyone seen this movie? A real shocker...long time since I saw it now, and it still has an effect me. The music was used in an edited version in the trailer for The Two Towers. __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle.

02-02-2004, 06:20 AM	#4
Shadowfax The Fleet-Footed Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: British Columbia Posts: 913	What's it about? __________________ Jesus saved me "To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child" (Cicero, 106-43 B.C.) "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth" (Picasso)

02-02-2004, 01:00 PM	#5
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	There are a couple of reviews on IMDB, I'd suggest reading them: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/ It's about drugs, really well-made and on the same time really disturbing and creepy. __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle.

02-02-2004, 04:52 PM	#6
zinnite Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA Posts: 195	Well, it's not so much about drugs as it is about addiction. You've got the main characters also addicted to television, food, sex, sunshine, approval from others, etc. In the end, there is only one addiction that the film (and the book) really cares about, and to which all the others are secondary: all of the characters are addicted to hope. Everything else the individuals go through is simply to attain their hopes and dreams, and they are so blinded by hope they don't see how their other addictions, which are all simply a means to an end, are destroying any chance they have of attaining their dreams. The film might not be everyone's cup of tea, as it is very graphic and disturbing, but I think everyone should see it at least once, because everyone is addicted to hope. Besides, it is a beautiful film with the most amazing cinimatography and acting I've seen in years. __________________ A citizen runs to the fire department yelling that he's spotted a roaring blaze from his car. "WHERE IS IT?" the fire department asks, pen ready. "It rises like some brooding , glaring trail of cosmic fury from- " "WHERE? WHERE?" "Oh. Well, it blazes up from a crimson-sheathed visage brooding darkly above the haunted towers of impotent indignity which, like melons hovering unhappily over lifetimes of empty meaning which-" "THE ADDRESS!" "Oh. Oh, I didn't notice. But look for a brooding, glaring trail of cosmic fury rising from a crimson-sheathed visage-" They lead him back to his car, and send him on. -- Philip K. Dick "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -- Diderot

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02-01-2004, 09:10 PM	#3
Lótiel Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Ponta Delgada, Azores Posts: 28	I just saw it for the second time, it´s really gruesom. I have the soundtrack, and whenever I listen to it I get chills. The music is good, but it reminds me of the film.