Requiem for a Dream has kept me up for the past hour... movies

And it's been a month since I've seen it.

Slight spoilers

I'm a freshman in college with a love for movies and a pretty decent collection. Recently, I have been checking out lists of dark movies on reddit and elsewhere on the internet. For Christmas, I got a gift card to Best Buy. I went into the store to buy a case for my new phone, but had to browse the movie section. Checking out the bargain bin, I saw Requiem. I remembered the name being littered throughout nearly every list of dark movies, and decided to get it. Besides, it was the blu-ray, unrated, for 5 bucks! It's not like I'm paying for it with my own money, so I'm down to take a chance!

That's one of the most bittersweet choices I've made.

I was lucky enough to not know anything spoiler-wise about the movie. I read the back cover, but it told me the only thing I already knew, which was that one of the themes of the movie was drugs/drug addiction. I didn't even watch the trailer, so I didn't know what I was getting into.

Now, I've seen dark movies and shows. Se7en, Mystic River, True Detective, The Last House on the Left, etc. I've seen movies that were intentionally extreme, such as Human Centipede, Salo, Cannibal Holocaust, A Serbian Film, etc. I thought "it can't be that bad."

I was so wrong.

In watching all of those movies, as well as many others I didn't list, I've always maintained composure, and even though I sometimes felt sad, horrible, and disgusted.

Watching this movie, I almost had to stop it. I actually couldn't look at the screen during a certain scene (Uncle Hank for those who have seen it), and covered my face saying "fuck.. nooo" over and over because I was just so horrified and felt so bad for everyone involved in these story lines. I just felt so bad for every single character.

I've never done drugs, and I'm 18 years old. I don't think all drugs are evil, and I'm not afraid of them, I just choose not to do them. I don't know if that mindset made this film worse for me, but I just had to throw that out there. And of course, I had to look up the differences in theatrical vs unrated. Fuck that. People in the theater had it a easier in some scenes for sure.

Finally, I want to say this movie was a 10/10, and the most powerful movie I've ever seen. It was so enjoyable, there were interesting plot lines, great soundtrack (of course), cinematography was different but interesting (reminded me a bit of Fear and Loathing), and you know damn well I had my volume up high, so I jumped every time thanks to that refrigerator.

This film is so powerful that I woke up at 3:45 this morning, started thinking about it, and haven't gone back to sleep since. I'm hoping that typing this will help me get back to sleep.

If you haven't seen this movie, it is a must.

Submitted January 16, 2016 at 04:29PM by pi905 http://ift.tt/1Qd1W3r movies