[film] Requiem for a Dream

[inulro]

Hey, I know, I'll watch the most depressing film in the world while I'm utterly miserable with the flu!

(No, I didn't think it was a *good* idea, it's the only film on my V+ box that Jason doesn't want to watch with me, as he's already seen it).

Mostly, your standard depressing junkie film, not very exciting, and I may well not have watched the whole thing if I'd been capable of movement.

What I did find extremely angry-making, though, was the redneck doctor who sends him to jail with a septic arm, without treating first.  Total failure of duty of care. 

My brain goes to weird places, OK?

Comments

[kest]

So we have this Netflix queue. It has about 400 movies on it, and new ones go at the end and we watch them when they get to the top, which is like literally six years. And when I am asked why it is this way, why we can't just move whatever looks the most fun to the top, I say it is because otherwise we will never watch Requiem for a Dream. Which I really feel like I should see. It has actually already come home, sat on the shelf for three months until I sent it back and put it back on the bottom, and now it is at home sitting on the shelf again and by god we are going to watch it. Eventually.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Let's just say that it's been on my digital recorder for more than a year...

I feel less excessive about the 120-odd films in my Lovefilm queue (OK, some of those are TV series too)

[girfan.livejournal.com]

I found it to be a very harrowing film to watch. And, it's probably one of the most realistic regarding drug addiction.