I just watched this film again last night for the first time in awhile and I still can't get it out of my mind. It is by far the greatest most effective movie that I have seen. It's just brilliant, the editing and the music and the way it showcased all four of the characters and what they were going through and the fates they met at the end. For those of you who have seen this who do you think had the worst fate?

I think the book was much more traumatising. I read it about a year and a half ago and it's all still fresh in my mind. I just couldn't read the bits when the mum was in the mental institute, it was just so horrible. I skipped those bits in the movie too. I think she had the worst fate by far.

Pretty much the only thing I actually like about this film is the music. It disturbs me because it's less like a film and more like a documentary. I thought the worst fate was the guy who lost his arm, but that's just me.

None of them got away without being completely fucked up.

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i FKIN love that arm. ive got a sickness. i know.

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It makes me want to cry. I hope you don't ever get septicemia (however it's spelled) and get your arm lopped off.

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i had trouble concentrating on the film once that arm came into the picture. i want to see it for myself, smell it. i dont know. im kind of obsessed with skin related diseases, infections.. all that.

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I'm told it smells like rotting flesh. Who'da thunk?

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all flesh smells different. rotting or not.

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i love the musical score and the scenes where they all curl up into a fetal position. that was so sad, in an almost apocalyptic way.

i was listening to the soundtrack just a while ago and i saw this thread. i really liked the movie. the worst fate? the mum.

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then she dances skirt swaying in the half-light she dances white blossom in the black sky
'I need new clothes', she thinks, 'new skin, a mind I can bear to live in'.

Too fucking melodramatic.

its an excellent movie, but it IS a little exaggerated?

like, its the story of the WORST possible thing that would happen in the WORST possible way, WORST case scenario


mind, it DOES make for one hell of a movie. damn depressing though. I dont even think I got out of bed the nexy day after watching it. haha


oh, and jared leto? since when are junkies so damn good lookin'?!?!

I know what you mean. It's so exagerrated it's almost contrived. I don't like movies like that. It doesn't have to be over the top to shock you.

It's like Seven. I detest that movie. It is soooooo forced and contrived and so unplausible, I mean it's totally forced to the point where it stops being believable. I hate that movie.

Requiem is less forced, so I wouldn't put it next to Seven but it's very forced.

omg the film and soundtrack are brilliant

I agree. It's like Million Dollar Baby or 21 Grams. Yes, very well executed movies, but my god do we really need that much melodrama to be moved???

but the most melodramatic movie ever HAS GOT TO BE Crash. When I saw it, I was like "what am I seeing?? an oscar award winning movie or a venezuelan novela??"

I disagree I don't think it's melodramatic in a contrived way like Seven or Crash for example and I think it's a far greater film than those and Million Dollar Baby and 21 Grams (which I loathed) and Crash. I think the fact that it makes such a dramatic impact is what makes it so brilliant. And I think that was the whole point was to show the worst possible consequences for that type of lifestyle it's just because it was tied in with 4 people and the music is very intense that makes it seem overdramatic. But I think it's dramatic in a clever and powerful way that is necessary because I don't know a person who has seen it who hasn't been effected by it. Them showing the worst possible conclusions for those people just makes it really interesting not contrived like that Seven shit.

Honestly I thought that Ellen Burstyn's character Sarah was the saddest fate. The scene when she is soooooooo fucked up on the pills from the doc and he just writes more scripts - oblivious to the fact that its his meds that are fucking her up - that was down right scary man. She was so hooked and wanted to get off the pills and no one knew it - they thought she just went insane. I have a feeling that goes on daily somewhere in the world. OMG when she had to get the EST treatment - I really freaked out. And of course Jared's arm - yet another time when I was glad that with all the drugs I have done in my life or may do - I HATE needles. I thought Jennifer Connelly was the least of the worst - I mean hey she lived with all her parts in tact - she just became a big time junkie ho. ps I have watched that movie only once when it first came out on dvd - I was too freaked to watch again.

Ass To Ass!

This movie is amazing. Did you know the actress Ellen Burstyn (Sarah) won an award (an Oscar or Emmy or something like along those lines) for her perfomrance. I love this movie. But it falls into the lines of movies that I love, is ones of drug addiction for some reason. I do not know. I am easly frighten by scary movies, but was able to watch this one all the way thru and many times over and over. I own it and love this film. What disturbed me the most is the mom. Not her addiction to diet pills, but the loneliness she discovered in her life. Like that could happen to me, if I just go off the right hook, you never saw it coming with the Mom of her addiction, not for a mile, but she turned out to be the worse. To me, it seemed she had lived her entire life just being a housewife, and a mother ... where her only happiness was waking up each day and have her son and husband to take care of. Then her son moves away, her husband dies. She is all alone. She still keeps busy, and is happy still. She's got friends around and still have good spirits. Then she say's to herself, oh well a few diet pills won't hurt me. She know's she can handel them, and that it is no big deal. Thinks of them almost like viatimins.
Then as every drug, her tolerance has gotten so high, so think's they don't work at all, and takes more and more. She's never done a drug in her life, probally never even smoked a ciggareete either. She doesn't know a single thing about addiction. She think's she is doing something good for herself.
It makes her feel important in her loneliness that she "has pills she needs to take everyday". She was so tragic. It was almost like, you almost made it thur your life, you had a successful life, marriage and raised a beautful healthy child. What more could you want in life? The loneliness takes over, and get's her into a little mischife, thinking "loosing the weight" will be exciting and something for her to do. It controled her. It just creeps me out, cause you can pretty much prevent yourself from not getting addicted to drugs, by just not doing drugs, but can you prevent yourself from the loneliness she lived in? That to me, was the most terrifying part.

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