Requiem for a Dream
"Don't watch it on your own" the counter guy at Fopp said, half jokingly. I laughed and said I wouldn't.

It's the only DVD I've ever sat through the credits for. And for half an hour I didn't move, just sat in silence. It felt like a funeral.

And yet, it remains one of the best examples of cinema I know of, truly taking the medium to another level.
(Urban Hermit Exit, pursued by a bear on, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 20:28, 5 replies)

that movie
frickin raped my mind.
I watched it with friends... and still we all sat there in shock and awe.
(fisherOfApples123 -=destroyer of toilets=-, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 20:34, closed)

as someone a few posts up notes
its one of the greatest films that I will probably never watch again. All my friends who have seen it feel the same way. Awesome, emptying.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 21:17, closed)

Such a great film..
Whenever I think of it though, I like to remind myself of the happier parts:

The awesome musical direction

Jennifer Connelly's bush

and

the Japanese businessman shouting "ASS TO ASS!"
(Lythium deals in lead, my friend., Thu 17 Jul 2008, 21:25, closed)

Dark
A stunning film. Seen it a few times and it still hit's home with the same impact. 21Grams is the only film I think i've seen that come's as close emotionaly.
(Kaine, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 22:08, closed)

Dark
Hubert Selby Jr, who wrote the book Requiem for a Dream, wrote another very dark book called The Room.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Selby_Jr.

"Over the years, however, especially in Europe, The Room has come to be recognized as what Selby himself perceives it to be: the most disturbing book ever written, a book that he himself was unable to read again for twenty years after writing it."
www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9478435
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 17 Jul 2008, 22:16, closed)