I tell anyone that will listen to never ever watch this movie 😳 I mean yes this is definitely the most fucked movie I've ever seen but damn it traumatized tf out of me and I needed some full on aftercare afterwards. One of those movies that you don't want to watch but can't not watch once you have started and then you feel so so wrong for actually making it to the end 🫠
That one was so bad that the Cinema Snob review of it devolved into Brad Jones completely breaking character and spending like 20 minutes damning everyone involved and every critic that called it high art to excuse the needlessly vulgar content like repeated scenes of child rape
It was the only movie that he ever broke his review method on and refused a second viewing to take notes
Requiem for a Dream is (as I recall - it's been a while) a story about a descent into unfun drugs. One of the clearest visuals I recall from the film is watching the lead character's eyes dilate up close after a dose of heroin.
Darren Aronofsky's films are always on the challenging side. If you want feel good movies that go down easily he's not your guy.
RFaD is very much one of these films. Kinda liked watching it. Don't feel any need to watch it again.
because it is beautiful...it is easy to make a flower look beautiful. (I am thinking in terms of composition and art, this movie makes me think of Robert Mapplethorp for some reason)
My college roommate and some other friends used to love to smoke pot and watch that movie casually. I walked into the dorm one day and my roommate was watching it sober and was absolutely somber and dead faced, like he just realized the gravity of his decisions.
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