Requiem for a Dream

[jackofallgeeks]

I just watched "Requiem for a Dream."
It didn't make me depressed, like most people said it would.
Mostly, it just made me ill; needles and pills and hospitals... I don't like that stuff.
And when it was all done, it just all seemed so... stupid. In a foolish, futile, sad sort of way.
I felt really bad for Ty because of everyone, he was the one who messed up the least.
And I came to hate Marian.

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[mordainlove.livejournal.com]

again: that movie is messed up. i think i'd be okay watching it, if what happened to marian at the end didn't happen. it's disturbing enough, but as a woman i find it especially disturbing. something about it gets to me.

what i love about the movie (gasp, shock) is the main theme of the score. i first heard it used on the lord of the rings - two towers trailer (takin' it back, i know) ... and i've been enchanted/moved/thrilled by that bit of music since then.

i'm glad i didn't bet mom, as far as you watching it. she would have taken me to the back. oy.

Possibly Spoiler-y, for those who my care

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

*refrains from making a comment about 'at the end.'*

See, like I said, I came to hate Marian. And I feel bad that I hated her, but... What happened to her at the end was very wrong indeed, but I have less sympathy for her because she basically did it to herself. I hesitate in that only a little bit because it 'started' when Harry and Ty needed the money, and she 'got it.' Arguably, Harry started her on that road, but... I hated her for what she became, as she cuddles happily on the couch as the credits roll.

Similarly, I have less sympathy for Harry because what happens to him was his own doing in most ways, too. And as sad and horrible and pathetic (in the 'pathos' sense of the word) as Sara's situation became, it got that way by her own choice. I'll note that her monologue on being lonely and old was the only thing that struck me as particularly depressing. But she became what she was by her own hand.

Ty I feel bad for, because if anyone "did it right," it was him. He was aiming the right way. When he saw Harry's arm, he went and did the right thing. His downfall really just came because the guy whose shoulders he was riding got off'd at a bad time in a bad way. And, generally, that's where it all fell for the three of them, because they bailed him with the savings, or so I guessed. But still, he did things right -- though, things considered, he ended in the 'best' spot to, in a way.

I also thought that the play between Sara and the three kids was interesting, too -- it's OK for her to take pills, the doctor practically throws them at her, but what they do is enough to get them shot or jailed or worse. And why? What's so different between her high and theirs? It's actually a something that's bugged me ever since kids at school started getting put on Ritalin: why is it OK to take these drugs to alter my behavior and not those drugs to do the same? I thought the parallel was drawn nicely.

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

i'm glad i didn't bet mom, as far as you watching it. she would have taken me to the back. oy.

-laughs-
What, you mom would have bet that I'd've handled it OK and you would have bet, as most of my friends seemed wont to do, that I'd take it really hard?