Has anyone seen that movie? They should totally show this in schools to prevent people from doing drugs...

Drugs are good for your health...

Love the movie, love the soundtrack.

I was down in Rolla and had, by sheer coincidence, the movie in my laptop's DVD drive. We were waiting for a party to start so that we could show up fashionably late, and I decided that, since I'd already watched half of the movie, I'd get a little more in.

Well, a friend of my friend's sister was there and she goes, "Oh, what are you watching?"

I reply, "Requiem for a Dream."

"Oh, put it in the DVD player so we can all watch it!"

"Are you sure?" I ask. "It's not a happy film. At all."

"That's not a problem!"

Apparently, everyone neglected to tell me that this girl is clinically depressed. So, she ends bawling her eyes out after the movie, and we all slip out of the room (a la Family Guy at the bar when Joe starts breaking down) to have a beer.

It's not my fault, damn it.

Requiem for a Dream made me laugh because everybody got what they deserved.

Not the mother...all she wanted to do was lose weight. She didn't know any better.

Sad movie, but Trainspotting's almost as sad. I need to watch Spun still.

I need to see Trainspotting.

I love the montage effect the director used for the drugs.

*boil boil *sip sip *kiss smooch *cha-ching *cells moving SWEEP SWEEP *sigh sigh

OH YEAH! and the pupils too.

There ya go

I'd suggest reading the book afterwards, it's about 10 times better. But if you read the book first it spoils the film.

I need to read Porno sometime.

I have seen neither Requiem nor Trainspotting, and am not really planning on seeing either. I don't like "sad" movies. There's enough sad stuff IRL as it is.

The mother basically paid for her son's drug habit. Also, she was obsessed with the quick fix (the show she always watched was a weight loss infomercial). And she never listened to her son when he told her to stop taking the pills. And she was addicted to TV. And food. And other things.

I don't think people should be depressed by the movie, but I do think they should take it as a warning.

The movie was a veiled statement on how things can sneak up on us. Looking at the mothers face as shes being carted into the shock therapy room all I could think about was how confused and afraid she was. They got what was coming to them Jon, but not one of them realized what they were doing until the consequences stared them in the face. Life is full of the little temptations that lure us to the dark side and many of us follow them without even realizing it....(cigarette anyone?)

Yeah, it's a great movie. Trainspotting was also good. I've seen like half of Spun, just seemed like kind of a rehash. I don't know, I'd like to see the rest some time.

Blow is a fantastic movie (I don't know why drug movies interest me so much). A Scanner Darkly is also good.

Oh, and fun fact: the pupils should be contracting, not dilating in the above youtube'd scenes.

Blow is an amazing movie, A Scanner Darkly is just beautifully tragic, and fun fact, coke will make your pupils dilate, heroin contract, and benzos (which I think is what they're taking [benzodiazapine]) doesn't do anything.

Yeah, didn't actually watch the youtube video, thought it was just heroin.