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Requiem for a Dream

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  • #62
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    Why it's unrealistic bull****.

    It is movie not a documentary.

    People seem to have an issue because it portrays drugs negatively but it's not about drugs, it is about addiction and it explores the theme brilliantly, the highs the lows, the sense of control and loss of free will. The exploration of old age is quite realistic.


  • #63
    Mugatuu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Mugatuu


    Melisandre121 wrote: »
    Just watched this for the first time, alone, at night. Big mistake.

    I watched it on my own aswell and was lying in bed and couldn't get it out of my head for ages afterwards. Little bit traumatised after it ! Wouldn't watch it again but I loved the sound track


  • #64
    conorhal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,096 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    It is movie not a documentary.

    People seem to have an issue because it portrays drugs negatively but it's not about drugs, it is about addiction and it explores the theme brilliantly, the highs the lows, the sense of control and loss of free will. The exploration of old age is quite realistic.

    It's brilliant but I just can't watch that film again, what happens to Ellen Burstyn's character is too heart breaking, I don't have much sympathy for the rest of the junkies in the film though.
    As for it's negative portrayal of drugs, sure nobody would know better than Hubert Selby Jr. about the negative impact of drugs, as the author of the novel the film was based on was a heroin addict for years.


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