"Requiem for a Dream" Amazing movie or a bore fest??????

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Hey did anybody see "Requiem for a dream" if yes then what did you think of it. Feel free to comment on the director's other works.
 
There was discussion over the flick here:
http://sciforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15870&highlight=requiem

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I think Aranofsky may have been trying to just highlight the harshness of drug abuse. The artsy effects every 2 minutes may have been used to try and illustrate the effect of pounding something into your life, the way heroin is used (or speed by the mom). However, we certainly cannot be sure that this is his point. For one, Aranofsky has never stated it. For two, his work in Pi would seem to indicate he's a little trigger-happy with the art; Requiem would have provided both more money and more credibility to work with as well as a more intense, artsy-driven script.

Requiem without a doubt was an overload of effects. Even if his point was to illustrate intensity, he could have done it with much fewer cliche pseudo-artsy effects.

Edit to add; Someone mentioned Lynch. Look at Mulholland Drive, notme. There's a movie which is totally about the philosophy and nature of self and is at the very least just as "deep" as Requiem. Yet Lynch was beautifully able to illustrate his point with much more natural film making. Lynch did not resort to the high-school tactics. Aranofsky in Requiem kind of comes off as a high school student who was obsessed with Lynch/Bergman and the such and is making his first movie with a high budget.

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Every effect in that movie has been used in some form before. Except in great indie films those effects would be used sparsingly and not every one of them in a single flick. It seems a lot like Aranofsky watched a ton of indie flicks over the years and wrote down every effect he liked and then tried to put them all in one movie.

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"It was a little more subtle, like this lifestyle is nothing any normal person will ever understand."

Then why show so prominently that it happens to normal people like the mother? I think Aranofsky wanted to show the exact opposite, actually. All of the characters in the movie had their own "heroin".

It's been a while since I've seen the movie, but wasn't it Connelly's therapist who had an obsession with sex? And the pimp has his money. And then in the next-to final scene you see a bunch of normal, everyday, middle-class business men paying big money to get their fix of "perverse" sex?

I think Darren wanted to get across quite clearly that we all experience these obsessions, these addictions. I think the point was to warn not to let yourself fall into the depths of the obsession.
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I liked it, but won't go in to long detail to explain. Tyler makes all good points, but I still liked it.
 
total borefest! *falls asleep from watching it and face comically falls into the bowl of tomato soup lying in front of her*
 
failed to tell a story

Director Darren Aronofsky was so busy trying to make an instant hit among scenesters and art students that he forgot movies are about telling a story and conveying a theme. Editing that is jumpy enough to make a navy seal sea sick did not tell me a story, it just annoys me. Somewhere along the line people where I came from began refering to Requiem has the definitive indie film, but there are so many better ones out there.
 
"began refering to Requiem has the definitive indie film"

That's the problem - he tried to make Requiem the standard indie film. And he tried too hard. Pi was much better.
 
wow

um...wow..i thought this thread was..umm..dead.


But you people made good points. I like the movie but i wouldn't watch it twice because i just don't find it has enough to keep me coming back..but it definetly scared me off of drugs forever though.

I have never seen PI. It is on my to do list now thanks to you people.
 
Pi is definitely better. But Requiem, I thought, did tell a story and convey a theme. Dreams can be dangerous... In your pursuit to acquire a dream you can be lead in to a nightmare... You have to know when to let go... It's all in the title... "Requiem For A Dream". The dream was dead but they weren't willing to let it go, and so it dragged them in to a nightmarish existance.
 
Yup, another excellent flick, without a doubt. Interesting concept. However, I get the feeling that a bunch of wannabe's are gonna try and find something similar soon. That's what happens really often with a new 'indie' idea.
 
Originally posted by notme2000
But Requiem, I thought, did tell a story and convey a theme. Dreams can be dangerous... In your pursuit to acquire a dream you can be lead in to a nightmare...
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EXACTLY... although I'd disagree about Pi, I didn't like it, but it's been awhile....

I'm a hardcover avid beleiver that not only do percpetions drastically differ from person to person, but also between time-frames within a person's life.
 
Most definately. 1 person can infact be hundreds of completely different people in his or her lifetime.
 
Trainspotting was a better antidrug movie imho, oh and I think many people who love the movie so much have also read the book or want to be part of the l33t artsy crowd
 
If you read the liner notes from the DVD, the movie did exactly what the director said it should. It scared the shit out of me and I don't think I'll do drugs because of it.
 
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