Requiem for a Dream [Archive] - Green Grass Forums

intrepidus6

12-04-2006, 06:07 AM

What the hell is Requiem for a Dream? I mean, I've watched it before, but what is it suppose to be about?

TallulahGreen

12-04-2006, 06:08 AM

What the hell is Requiem for a Dream? I mean, I've watched it before, but what is it suppose to be about?

How drugs can ruin your life??????

intrepidus6

12-04-2006, 06:12 AM

How exactly is it suppose to mean that? Seems like just a bunch of random randomness to me... And drugs can't ruin your life, garwsh....

TallulahGreen

12-04-2006, 06:15 AM

Did you not see how in that movie drugs ruined all of their lives??? They all just wanted a better life...

intrepidus6

12-04-2006, 06:17 AM

umm... just looks like a bunch of random randomness to me, as I said...

Polymirize

12-04-2006, 06:17 AM

They all had "dreams" about how good life was going to be for them... And it's a requiem because all of those dreams died horrible horrible deaths.

What part didn't you understand about that?

cygnustaxt

12-04-2006, 06:18 AM

hello3pat

12-04-2006, 06:18 AM

The basic summery of the movie, as I think Tallulah tried to point out, is that all the characters wanted a way out of their shitty lives so they begin doing drugs, the mundane (like caffeine) to smack. Then they try to get better lives solely by means of the drugs, ignoring the truth of their addictions, and end up completely fucked.

intrepidus6

12-04-2006, 06:19 AM

It's just the movie thing dosen't make any sense at all... are we all thinking of the same thing? I'm am refering to: http://www.requiemforadream.com/

TallulahGreen

12-04-2006, 06:19 AM

I own that movie...good movie.

JaggedEdge

12-04-2006, 06:20 AM

They all had "dreams" about how good life was going to be for them... And it's a requiem because all of those dreams died horrible horrible deaths.

What part didn't you understand about that?

Thats it. Prescription drugs, heroin, a girl sucking dick for her fix and preforming in front of men, another losing his arm. Drugs can ruin lives and that is what the movie was about. Notice weed was not a focal point of the film. Great movie by the way.

hello3pat

12-04-2006, 06:23 AM

If your ahving trouble understanding this one don't watch Pink Floyd: The Wall

Polymirize

12-04-2006, 06:26 AM

I own that movie...good movie.

I've got my copy too. Powerful film. Plus, the soundtrack kicks ass...

Polymirize

12-04-2006, 06:31 AM

It's just the movie thing dosen't make any sense at all... are we all thinking of the same thing? I'm am refering to: http://www.requiemforadream.com/

I have the sneaking suspicion that you have in fact never seen this movie. And are merely trying to guess as to what its about based upon their website. If this is the case I'll let you know right now, its not going to work, not by a long shot.

TallulahGreen

12-04-2006, 06:36 AM

I have the sneaking suspicion that you have in fact never seen this movie. And are merely trying to guess as to what its about based upon their website. If this is the case I'll let you know right now, its not going to work, not by a long shot.

I was almost thinking the same thing.

hello3pat

12-04-2006, 06:40 AM

I think one of my teachers said there was a book and it' smuch better than the movie

TokinAsianGuy

12-04-2006, 08:11 AM

I think one of my teachers said there was a book and it' smuch better than the movie

Your teacher doesn't know the art of filmaking then. and i suppose the Fight Club book blew us all away like the movie. :rolleyes:

intrepidus6

12-23-2006, 09:17 AM

Wait... Is this like a movie you buy on dvd? cause I just thought that website was the whole movie...

az666

12-23-2006, 12:08 PM

no the site isn't the film...
http://www.amazon.com/Requiem-Dream-Directors-Cut-Burstyn/dp/B00005Q4CS/sr=8-1/qid=1166875573/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-8399387-7145458?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
it's an actual full lenght film.
It a really good film, very thought provoking and quite emotional (has some parts that will make you laugh but in a WTF?? laughing way)
good film

pixel

12-23-2006, 01:58 PM

Requiem for a Dream exposes four paralleled individuals and their menacing addiction to heroin, cocaine, and diet pills (speed). Taking place in Brooklyn amidst the waning Coney Island, the drugs are very easily obtained and keep each main character in its cycle of dependence. The protagonist Harry Goldfarb is your typical heroin junky with an ambitious plan of "Getting off hard knocks," with help from his cocaine crazed girlfriend Marion and his long time friend Tyrone. Meanwhile his widowed mother is obsessed with the glamor of television and eventually finds her way to a dietitian who pushes her into the cycle of drug induced enslavement.

- IMDB.com

fasterspider

12-23-2006, 03:12 PM

I read above by one who has no friggin clue that drugs can't ruin your life. What the fuck is wrong with you stupid? Drugs can and will detsroy your life if you let them. I have lost way too many people in my life to drugs and was almost lost to them myself. Drugs destroyed the lives of the people in the movie just like drugs destroy peoples lives every day.
Drugs kill and it is stupid people that let drugs kill them, I got smarter and quit them. I am not saying that I am a super genius, far from it. But I was smart enough to quit messing with narcotics and alcohol because they took away my dreams and my life until I quit them. I still do not remember my dreams, they have been gone for 20 years.

pabloescobar209

12-23-2006, 03:12 PM

What the hell is Requiem for a Dream? I mean, I've watched it before, but what is it suppose to be about?

Are you deaf and blind?

intrepidus6

01-01-2007, 02:14 PM

Are you deaf and blind?

yes... *runs and crys*

Jedi Hash

01-01-2007, 04:42 PM

Your teacher doesn't know the art of filmaking then. and i suppose the Fight Club book blew us all away like the movie. :rolleyes:

Actually, I think you'll find anyone that actually reads books will say the book is either always or almost always better than the movie (except for books that are written after the movie.)

suhl

01-01-2007, 05:47 PM

i dont see how you cant see it being about drugs ruining lives. i havent seen it in a few years but if i remember right they took drugs and their lives got worse and worse and they were wanting better lives. the fight club book was better than the movie because the ending made sense, other than that they were about the same. norton and brad pitt did great jobs acting, i dont know how it would qualify as a masterful display of filmmaking though, and i am well aware they showed his apartment as a catalogue. a good movie but really a bad example if you are trying to think of movie being better than the book, the book was very well received