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"What did I just watch?"
What a flaming turd. It made no sense. You have to be on drugs yourself to appreciate this movie. It was listed under horror in Unbox and that must be because it's a horrible movie. I'd like my money and 2 hours of my life back, Amazon.

"Forced "Drama" for Adolescent Minds"
If I could give this coprolite of a film zero stars I would. This is the worst movie I have ever seen and ever hope to see. The fact that it could be rated so highly, here and on IMDB, indicates the abysmal emotional immaturity of film fans.



1. No likable characters - which isn't to say the characters just sit there, no. They scream off the screen with absolute annoyance. I hated the characters 15 minutes into the film and wondered how they could possible be turned into something worth watching. They weren't. Androgynous boy-man has the voice of a whining buzz saw cutting through a series of jagged metal chalk boards. Jennifer Connelly manages to disguise her attractiveness under a layer of creepout that was hard, physically hard, to keep eyeballs focused on. And the Wayans brother is just annoying token-black-man, thrown in to give the Semitic/Anglo couple some "street cred".
Okay, not all characters in a movie need to be appealing. But the kicker is, when you get to the end of the movie and you realize you are supposed to feel sorry for them...somehow. Despite the fact that they never displayed an ounce of decency or humanity. It's beyond comprehension how I could feel anything other than disgust for them all.
So maybe the mother character is sposta appeal? As she descends into a diet pill frenzy that borders on the comic, and increasingly chews the scenery like a dog with an old bone, you can only hope the movie will end soon so you can begin the process of extracting her visage from your catalog of humanoid faces.

2. Displays all the writing and plotting skills of a privileged, protected college student trying to imagine what life on the edge is like. It's truly laughable. Truly cliched and trite and laughable. Token-black ends up arrested by token-Southern-law-officer and sentenced to forced labor. Semitic junky loses his arm - oh yes, in the South doctors will call the police before treating a case of gangrene - we're just that inhuman. Creepy chick starts having sex for money and drugs, but we're sposta feel sorry for her cuz she doesn't enjoy it. Mother goes into an irrecoverable spastic state from diet pills (DIET PILLS!) and has her brain fried with electroshock. Yeah...that's a believable scenario. Zathura is more believable. Childish junk, this "plot".

3. Purposeless student film devices. The quick cutting, the meaningless split screens, the accelerated/decelerated time, the steady cams strapped to bodies - it all screams, "I am so creative, world look at my genius and despair." What's really lovable is the little montage that accompanies every heroin kick - gee, that never gets old.

4. Stereotypes - the lovable black heroin dealer, the horrible black sex fiend, the n-word using Southern law officers, the doting Jewish mother and her troop of aimless Jewish mother friends, the creepy bald successful guy. Every character in this movie is a hack job pulled from the yellowed pages of some pulp novel found on a bus stop rack.

5. Laughable drug use - For junkies, these people have awfully fussy biological clocks. They can go without for any length of time it takes to flesh out some worthless scene. But then suddenly, they're willing to become sex slaves for a slight taste. Whatever gets the director to the emotional non-moment he thinks will grab the ghoulies of pretentious film critics. And then the mother on diet pills? And she's so stupid she doesn't realize that taking several at a time is inadvisable?

6. Ridiculous plot devices - did I cover the hysterical creepy mental hospital where they go straight to the brain frying levels of ECT? Why didn't the director just do the lobotomy routine from Cuckoo's Nest? The drug shortage with a special Xmas delivery that means nobody in NYC can get heroin...yes, that's believable. The man who can't take care of an infection on his arm until...it needs antibiotics? No, that might be believable. No, it must be cut off. Ridiculous! And the Wayans character...he's operating with the Jewish guy, but he's also in the black mob and they are independent and have money but then don't and...was anybody allowed to review this? Did nobody giving this drut 5 stars think this was a problem? The mother with her TV addiction, who just happens to watch the same show ad nauseum? Believable? Or just meant to inflict despair? I claim the latter.

Dear dawg, I could go on and on about how insanely bad this movie is, and how I hope the director gets put on the next one-way rocket trip to the Andromeda Galaxy...but what's really disturbing is the number of people who could swallow this razor blade and call it candy.

"After the visceral impact fades, there's little to sustain the film..."
This film reminds me of Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, in that it's initially an assault on the senses, and you feel as if you've seen great filmmaking because of it. When I revisisted Irreversible recently, I found out I'd been had. Noe's film is just an assault on the senses with nothing in its core. Aronofsky's film, while nowhere as overly graphic, sadistic or disgusting as Irreversible, has this same quality.

As many have said here, the main message here is a very simplistic one, DRUGS ARE BAD. It's almost on the level of an after school special, and that's a shame, as Aronofsky has a very good visual and editing style, but after nearly 2 hours of it, it's overkill. I felt totally numbed after seeing this film. I sat in my car afterwards, and I couldn't move. But aside from the pure visceral experience of the film (which feels like a drug, the drugs the movie is telling us not to use), there isn't much left there. There's some depth in Ellen Burstyn's character (she gives a great performance), but I believe that has to do with the fact this is based on Hubert Selby Jr.'s book. If there is any humanism in this film, it's derived from the novel, not Aronofsky, who is like a kid with his new toy. The characters of Leto and Connelly are especially bad, especially Connelly. She is supposed to be a junkie, but she looks way too beautiful to be one. Overall, the film is worth watching at least once, but it's essentially a visceral assault on your senses and little else.

A funny sidenote...Before this film screened (I saw it in a theater), the theater was playing The Wallflowers's album Breach, which is one of my favorite albums of theirs. After I recovered from this assault, I kept thinking about how wonderful and tuneful those songs were, and I pretty much forgot about Aronofsky's film (until I wrote this review). I bought Breach, and it's one of my favorite albums. Thanks, Darren...

"Prententious Crappola (of rocknrola)!!!!"
Spun (Unrated Version)This is what happens when people who have never gotten hiiiiiigh in their life try to make a movie about gettin high. Get "Spun", instead....pretty much on the money. Or, maybe even:Blow (Infinifilm Edition)"Blow" which, at least, had the immortal line: "I once did 10 grams in 10 minutes....what can I say? I guess I have a high tolerance." Skip this second-rate bit o' fluff and read:PILATE: A Brutal Bible Taleinstead. Ever seen a vampire stoned? Ever seen the Christ smoke trees?

"painful, candid and essential"
Requiem For A Dream is one of the best films I have ever seen. Brilliantly co-written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, Requiem For A Dream does in fact attack you with a dramatic and remarkably candid portrayal of what a "drug" can mean to someone--and what that "drug" can do to someone. For Aronofsky, that drug could be watching television, taking diet pills or street drugs. This film is sure to have a deep emotional impact on you; and as a former social worker I could empathize with the struggles that the three or four main characters live through as they watch the destruction of their dreams because they used drugs to achieve their dreams.

When the action begins, we meet Sara Goldfarb, a lonely old widow in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn whose only pleasure seems to be watching a somewhat silly self-help show on television. Her son, Harry, is constantly hocking her television set for money--only what Sara doesn't know is that Harry uses the money to buy heroin for himself and cocaine for his girlfriend Marion. Harry is also friends with a drug dealer named Tyrone; and they scheme to buy and resell drugs on the street for fat profits. Unfortunately, just as others have noted, Harry and Tyrone often turn out to be their own best customers.

Sara herself is on a mission. One day she gets a phone call stating that she has already won a spot on the self-help talk show-and when Sara can't fit into her prized red dress, a problem ensues. At first, Sara tried to diet; but this goes nowhere fast. A friend tells Sara about a doctor who is rather liberal with his prescription pad; and this doctor soon has Sara hooked on diet pills that eventually have her jumping around like TWO Mexican jumping beans.

In order to make the tragedy of it all even more human and painful for some of us to watch, we see Sara, Harry, Marion and Tyrone all deteriorating as a result of their respective drug habits. It's not a pretty picture; but it's brilliantly acted and portrayed by the filmmakers.

Of course, the plot can still go anywhere. What does eventually happen to Sara, Harry, Marion and Tyrone? Will any of them be able to kick their drug habits--and what becomes of any of them if they can't kick their habits? The last twenty minutes of the film give us a skillful expose of their new lives.

The DVD has extras: there is a director's commentary with the "making of" featurette; and there are deleted scenes. The "anatomy of a scene" extra is also very well done.

Overall, Requiem For A Dream is probably one of the very best films I have ever seen. It gives us an often painfully candid look at what drugs can do to people and how people must struggle to beat their addictions. I highly recommend this for anyone wishing to study this matter. Unfortunately, the film is so frank that some sensitive people will be uncomfortable; but I believe that they had to make the message strong because that is the only way to truly deal with the issues involved.


 

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"A Sobering Tale of Addition, Drugs and Broken Dreams", Elegant and melancholy, Requiem is an unsettling drama that is as beautiful visually as its subject matter is depressing.

Each scene is excellently framed and contrasts in lighting, colors and settings allow the film's mood to parallel the highs and lows of the character's circumstances. As their predicament spirals out of control, and they shed the last vestiges of dignity and restraint, the film hurls you into their darkness - a chasm of moral bankruptcy, hopelessness and decrepitude.

Requiem approaches the material with an objectivity that often feels brutally cold, but it handles the characters with a tenderness that makes their already mournful fates emotionally crushing for the viewer. The film does not offer us the comfort of a happy ending, so don't expect to go home smiling.

The movie ultimately ends on a note that is starkly (and unavoidably) anti-drug, but this is not a preachy movie with some hidden moral agenda. The objective here is not to highlight the evils of drug use, but to mourn the human cost, weighed in hopes dashed, lives derailed and loves forsaken. This is after all, a requiem, a rueful ode to dreams buried and lost forever.

The Directors Cut DVD is the only version you should consider buying. It contains the full unedited version with mature material that was removed from the watered down theatrical version. Not a movie you'll watch often, but one that will always resonate when you do. Highly recommended.

"REQUIEM FOR A DREAM", GREAT DVD AT A FRACTION OF THE COST. MATURE AUDIENCE ONLY. ELLEN BURSTYN IS FANTASTIC.

"No subtitle options??", On of the most amazing films I've got in my collection and offers no subtitle options for any language at all, not even English?. How can this be?. Did they just forget that there are other people out in the world that do not speak English?. What a bummer. From having this DVD as one of my favorite options to share with my non English speaking friends, now I have it at somewhere in the middle of my DVD shelf. Out of the 100 points that I had given the film, just for the no subtitle options I take 30 away, so now is a 70 point movie for me. Such a shame.

"One of the most overrated films of all time?", I give this film high marks for its editing and ability to hold true to its gut-wrenching focus from beginning to end. It's hard film to watch...but it also lacks much of a reason to.

The story, if you want to call it that, starts and finishes at the same point. There is no beginning, middle or end...it's just a sequence (though a terrifying one at that).

For a film to take itself as seriously as this one does, a viewer should...no wait, NEEDS to care about the characters. For me, at no point did I feel much sympathy or care about any of them, with the exception of maybe the mother.

Despite my frustrations with the script, it is well acted. It's gritty and certainly conveys the despair and dark underworld of addiction. But again, without any sort of arc, I never felt sucked into it and was really expecting some sort of payoff, which never occurred.

The editing is certainly unique and worth showing to film students. I've never seen a film like it from that standpoint.

If you can ignore the writing and just "go along for the ride", then its worth a watch. Personally, I was hoping for more.

"Modern Classic", The only reason I rented this movie was because I loved the music on the trailer I watched.
Wow. Words really can't describe all the emotions this movie made me feel, ansd I think it may be the only film that has made me feel this way. I loved the story, character, tthe way it was filmed, and oh my god the symbolism! I think that if you had 10 diffrent people sit down at the same time and asked them some questions, you could have ten siffrent opinions, and maybe even what the people thought the movie reprsenrs. This is now one of my favorite films, the greatest part for me is the hauntingly beautiful soundtrack, that has entered my soul, and can make me weep. Please, watch this film, and decide for yourself. You may be really glad you did.



 
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"amazing,shocking,crazy,powerfull movie", I've heard about this movie for quite a few years and never decided to watch it until now becuase i heard so much hype about it, all i knew was it was about "drug abuse". Well the movie is about 4 people, everything seems fine at the beginning and the movie is slow to start but a half hour later it starts to pick up pace, thier drug use turns into drug abuse and obsession, thier dreams take a turn for the worse when it gets out of control and the movie gets darker and darker as it progresses.

the movie is filmed very well as the director does an amazing job, the performences are amazing especially from Ellen Burstyn which i rememeber from the exorcist and i havent watched much of jennifer Connelly's work apart from dark water which was an ok horror film but here she is also great. when the whole movie ended i was left out of breath and in shock!, the ending was pretty messed up and sad but i wasnt that depressed from watching it but i guess everyone's different, if your squeamish i suggest watching it with someone else because it definatly deserves at least one viewing and it is definatly one of those movies you will never forget. put the dvd in and get ready for a shocking/breathtaking ride.


"This review is not helpful", Fell asleep on it. I'm sure it was good, but I took some medication and it wasn't interesting enough to keep me awake. I'll tell you one thing, the change of seasons woke me up. The wife liked it, if that's helpful. I'm sure Aronofsky did a great job, as he did with his lo-budget Pi.

"Over the years", i watched this movie back when it first came out and didn't really get it. i recently re watched it and found it to be extremely thought provoking and true to life. this is a true glimpse into the life of a world most don't know. one thing that really grabbed me the second time is how the cycle of addiction really is a family problem. not for the faint of heart but a great movie if you want to see something that will make you think.

"Unsympathetic characters + no story = bad movie", We board a fast moving train to oblivion with no understanding given as to why these people became such desperate junkies in the first place. Should we assume that it is simply because they're all so obviously stupid? The beautiful Jennifer Connelly, for example, apparently has a talent and wants to design clothes and maybe open her own store, yet she can't otherwise form a coherent thought, like, "Gee, maybe I should finish high school first!" Or is it all supposed to be because of their inability to move beyond their bleak surroundings? There are lots of people living in bleak surroundings who don't do what these people did. So what is it? Hmmm?

And let's not forget that we're talking about people who not only shoot smack, but whose loftiest aspiration is to become smack dealers themselves so that they can get lots of money fast. In fact, when they're in their money-making "business" mode, they seemed to be able to bring their respective addictions under control just fine, thanks. Hey, you've gotta have a clear head to make it in the business world. But getting a real job (or even looking for one) never enters into the equation for these self-absorbed nitwits.

As far as mom living her zombie-like TV-oriented life while popping Rx diet pills so she can be on TV herself, where's the background info that would allow us to buy into this? Is your grandma a pill addict with an IQ of 50? Whose grandma is, exactly? No, the vast majority of TV-watching grandmas aren't popping pills, they're popping cookies into the oven.

So, with no reasons given as to how this particular group of Jerry Springer guests decided to roll up their sleeves and stick a dirty needle in (or eat diet pills like M&Ms), I just plain didn't care. Lots of style here with no real story or reason to give a hoot.

"Maybe this is not my type of movie", I feel that this is like a movie that was shot in the 80's. I don't know why but it seems old and past due for me. I have tried watching it on five occasions and have not gotten past the 25 minutes. Too bad. I expected more based on the reviews on here.



 
 
 

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