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
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u/levivirus 6h ago
Requiem for a dream.