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Summary: rated version-What'd I miss?
Review: I rented "Requim for a Dream-rated version" and am just wondering what I had missed. I fell in love with this movie the first time I saw it (and saw it again several times after that), but want to know exactly what I missed out on.......what was exactly deleted? If I fell in love with this movie watching the rated version, I plan to own it as well.......but the full movie. So anyone please e-mail me and let me in on exactly if I missed anything prominent. If not so I could go ahead and buy the version I first rented instead of waiting around for the unedited version. Thanks in advance.
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Summary: This movie is hilarious
Review: Ok, at first this movie may seem really depressing and it definitely packs a punch the first time you see it, looking back at it, it's just hilarious. The problem isn't the heroin, it's that the characters are stupid.
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Summary: Fantasic Voyage
Review: One the best movies of 2000 if not the best. It's visionary in technique and storytelling. Aranofsky leads us through hell and doesn't bring us back. It's not a cautionary tale because everyone already knows where drug addition leads. These characters are lost at the beginning of the story and they are lost at the end. The viewer knowns that the story can only end one way. It's the journey that makes it interesting. The directing techniques are wonderful. It's very rare that a director can make his work apparent to you and yet not make it feel invasive. You're aware of the editing and directing, but they only serve to enhance the story. All the performances were wonderful. They all could have been nominated for Oscars and I would not have felt them undeserving.
This is not a movie for everyone. Obviously the subject matter, language and frank sexuality make this an adult movie. And only for adults who are not squeemish or easily upset by the subject matter of movies. I personally give it my highest recommendation. If you want to see what the best of todays filmakers are capable of, then check this movie out. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Why no Oscar?
Review: This is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time.
I think it was overlooked because it was good and the mainstream
Hollywood nonsense is for the mindless masses of sheep.
Honestly this was the best anti-drug movie I have ever seen and in a way maybe it would be good for young adults to see?
What acting, what directing.
A masterpiece!!
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Summary: every kid in junior and senior high should see this
Review: Requiem for a Dream is a harrowing film about the downward spiral that happens to four people who are taking drugs in different forms for different reasons. None come to a pleasant end. The film is shot in a non-stop assault on the senses. Ellen Burstyn -- who completely deserved her nomination for Best Actress for her work here -- is a lonely widow taken in by an absurd TV infomercial, and starts taking diet pills in an order to reach physical perfection and therefore happiness, like the TV promises. Her son Jared Leto and his best friend Marlon Wayans (whose storyline I feel the most sympathy and sorrow for) continuously shoot heroin. Leto's girlfriend, played by Jenifer Connelly, also does drugs to a point where she will do anything to pay for it. The wasted lives and potential to a miasma of horror for these 4 people whose lives are intertwined is horrifying to watch, but you should watch it anyway. It is a horrible subject that is beautifully filmes. Just brace yourself before you turn on the VCR.
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Summary: Requiem For A Dream
Review: I saw this movie for the first time over a month ago and I still can't get over how amazing it is. It's, in my opinion, the best movie of the year, decade, and maybe more. Right now, I'm having trouble finding words to express how this movie has changed my life. Though I have never known anybody who is or was a drug addict, I imagine this could be an exact replica of what some of them went through. And if not, the director did such a good job convincing the viewers that it was. And where do I start with Ellen Burstyn, a woman who has won an Oscar for Best Actress already a long time ago (for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore). I'm still convinced that Julia Roberts only won last year for Erin Brockovich over Burstyn just because people felt that Roberts deserved one just because she's Julia Roberts, and not because of her role. Burstyn's role in this movie forced her to go through hell every day on the set to look like hell (bad or no make-up at all, fat suits, bad wigs) and had to portray true fear in scenes like when the fridge comes to life in a hallucination and gobbles her up, or when she is in the hospital getting ESP because she became addicted to diet pills under no fault of her own and eventually became crazy. And by that scene at the end and the last couple scenes after that, I know that I felt a little pity towards her. After going on enough about Burstyn, there's also the stellar supporting cast including Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans, and the lovely Jennifer Connelly. Connelly deserved the Oscar for this movie rather than A Beautiful Mind. She got down and dirtier more than Burstyn when, in order to get drug money, she prostituted herself and did anything and everything to get what she wanted. That also was hard to watch, especially with the scene at the end (I won't go into details since I don't want to ruin it for others and because I probably can't say what she did). I, along with the rest of the viewers, was surprised and impressed by Marlon Wayans acting. Sure is a heck of a better actor than Damon Wayans. And Jared Leto played Burstyn's son, an addict who doesn't want his mother to get addicted since he loves her very much. I really felt the chemistry between Burstyn and Leto and it worked well together. Anyway, this is definitely the best drug movie ever made, it's accurate, depressing, and exhilirating to watch. But it's not for the weak. It's in-your-face, especially if you see the unedited version. But you will be amazed.
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Summary: I want to see donkey to donkey
Review: Sometimes film can change you. A film can alter how you feel about any well depicted profession. It can mother the notions of what love must feel like. It can drag you through the darkest and most dire circle of hell. It can exploit a pessimist's worst apocalyptic vision into an immensely valuable anti drug statement. It can shock you scene after scene with its honesty and its unflinchingly brutal depiction of the desperation of the inner city, and at what price peace can there be achieved. One of the top five films produced in the past 20 years, and in the name of freedom of speech, priceless.
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Summary: Devastatingly Brilliant.
Review: SEE THIS MOVIE! Steel yourself first, but watch. You will laugh, cheer and cry all the way through this movie and walk away feeling as if a tornado just whipped through your soul. Darren Aronofsky has done what only a young and breathtakingly original director can do creating this movie. If you have read the book (which I strongly recommend BEFORE seeing this movie) you will understand what I mean, as the book is powerful and emotionally challenging. The movie Requiem for a Dream is both visually stunning and aurally powerful. Camera angels considered risky or unsettling by other mainstream directors are used with gritty confidence. Harsh sounds accompany strobe-like images in drug sequences allowing the viewer to almost FEEL what the characters feel. Aronofsky's cutting edge techniques of split screens with dual sound-tracks, long takes balanced by rapid-cut editing and staccato-like sound effects all propel the viewer on a rapid descent to hellish train wreck devastation. This is not an unsympathetic film, but certainly unapologetic. Unlike other "drug films" such as Trainspotting, there is no glimmer of glamorization of drugs here. In fact, if you see this movie and ever consider trying Heroin or Speed for that matter, consider yourself beyond hope. Ellen Burnstyn ... shout her name from the mountain tops! The Academy was bold enough to nominate her for an Oscar, but lost courage after that. It makes me wonder if the jury actually viewed the film. Her performance is one of the most riviting in recent memory AND was by far the most difficult role in the movie. Don't let that fool you, however; casting was done impeccably even down to a startling Marlon Wayans who turned out a dramatic role with savvy and eloquent understatement. I can't say enough about Requiem for a Dream, and feel what I have said is inadequate. You won't be able to see this movie without it touching you deeply. It is slick, beautiful, ugly, and devastating. You will carry this movie with you for a long time.
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Summary: Powerful
Review: This film, though flawed, is for me ultimately a paragon of great filmmaking. It has its weak points: The editing is far too choppy; you get the feeling that you're not seeing nearly enough of Ellen Burstyn's superb performance. But it succeeds in what the real goal of film is, in powerfully communicating a message to the viewer. The film is about addiction, not just to drugs, though that is the most obvious sort here, but to anything - to love and to hope. The characters make plans, they have relationships, they do their best, and they fail. The film is about their decline. It is not a happy film; it's probably the most depressing I've ever seen. But it is for that very reason that it is great. By the end you feel everything that the characters feel. It's terrible, terrible. But that is what filmmaking is about, the same as any other art: Communicating a message to the viewer. At that, the film is wonderful. I recommend it highly.
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Summary: Oh my god.
Review: I just watched Requiem for a Dream for the first time. It touched me more than any other piece of art ever has in my life. I am a drug addict, now in recovery. ... Nothing I have ever experienced in my life has been able to just...God, there are no words for how this movie has touched me. The acting was incredible. The way it was shot was incredible. Nothing has ever been able to capture drug addiction and manifest the feelings that a drug addict goes through everyday the way this movie has. The most incredible movie I have ever seen. Maybe just because I can relate to it.
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