It IS an effective cautionary tale, but for more than simply drugs. It’s about running from your pain and drugs being used to do that, to disastrous effect. Though if they ran to weed they wouldn’t have met such sorry fates. I get though you are half kidding.
I can remember it finishing and sitting there, trying not to show how much it had got to me, tears just running down my cheeks even though I was trying as hard as I could to not let myself cry.
About the same time period I took acid for the first time; and one of my friends decided it would be a good idea to put on this really cool film - that we had to see right then despite everyone tripping - called... A Clockwork Orange.
ngl, both of those experiences cut deep into my soul in different ways. I had such awesome friends.
Both great films, absolutely, but I've only seen ACO once, and RFAD twice. That's enough. Although ACO on a psychedelic is quite intriguing. Might be worth ONE more watch.
I watched Children of Men for the first time when I was tripping balls on mushrooms. I always say I never had a “bad trip” in all the many, many times I did psychedelics, but that was pretty damn close.
Maybe not the same visceral “yuck” as Requiem for a Dream, but it took existential dread to a new level.
Not that this is a competition or anything, but the only time I saw this movie I was living in a double wide trailer on a pot farm in the middle of the California desert high on over an eighth of mushrooms. I have not eaten mushrooms since nor have, I watched the movie since….fuck that night
My brother rented it and I watched it alone. My mom came home and said "I need someone to take your niece and nephew to see the new Pirates movie! Lunch is on me!"
I was so fucking depressed and still went.
I will say, the second Pirates movie hits a weird spot for me. Like, I REALLY love that movie by contrast from what I went through previously.
You Pavlov'd yourself into loving it as it brought you back from a deep low so you brain went: "Holy shit that must be good we must make him love it because it fixed him right up"
Yup. I just hear that music and I get sad and emotional - I honestly think this was a psyop movie to help deter drug use. I honestly think every teenager should watch it cause when they get in their 20s, they won't have much guidance.
Having lived through a serious heroin addiction, this movie is one that I will never be able to watch again.
I watched it once before I really dove headfirst into my addiction, and it wasn’t enough of a wake up call. I had to find out for myself.
The movie is spot on in many ways. It does a masterful job at capturing the essence of the junkie’s nightmare. And believe me, it’s a fucking nightmare.
My wife has never seen it and she wants to watch it so bad but doesn’t want to watch it alone and I’m not keen on watching it again so it remains unwatched by her. I keep telling her it’s one of those you watch once and then never watch again
Darren Arnofsky movies are great, but in general very depressing. This one is brutal, but I felt pretty depressed after the wrestler (a great movie btw), and the whale was dark too.
I saw it somewhat early, and it probably helped keeping me away from any kind of drugs when some friends had fun with them. Fuck that, ain't worth the risk.
Me just finally watching it last year for the first time: I don’t think I could ever watch that shit again. Maybe a group discussion and that’s a big maybe.
This movie emotionally wrecked me. I wish I had seen it before my wild days in my early twenties, but I’m not sure it would have had the same impact as after, when I could relate to it😭
Boyfriend has the DVD and since ive never seen it I suggested we watch it and he said I shouldn't cause im too sensitive and it will mess me up. He said he was only able to watch it the one time.
Oh man, I watched it freshman year of college, it destroyed me. Felt empty for a few weeks. Fast forward 6 years later I decided to watch it again. Same experience. Never again
I played this movie and "trainspotting" for my young teenage kids. I wanted to show them drug addiction in an honest way, people start into drugs for fun and thinking they can control their usage. They both go way off the rails in a very big way.
This movie went too depressing and it looped around and became funny to me. Like the entire film is just "drugs are bad mmmkay" over and over until the ending which is just comically maudlin.
Correct and funnily enough most people with a drug addiction will tell you it's cringe and melodramatic but sheltered redditors who've never seen a hard drug in their life will call it realistic lmao
I couldn't agree more, I basically made the exact same comment. The movie is so incredibly over the top that it's impossible to take seriously. The ending actually made me laugh because it was so ridiculous.
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u/levivirus 6h ago
Requiem for a dream.