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"Ma? Ya on uppers?"
This is rated as the 63rd-best film of all time on IMDB. Which says much more about IMDB-raters than the quality of this.
Darren Aronofsky certainly has a flair for claustrophobia; Pi was a good cinematic experience, and it's nice to see the mastery of camera and added effects, but the film itself doesn't stand up to repeated views.
Read the same for Requiem.
There seems to be a lot of masturbatory self-congratulation of the part of Guardian-reading students who enjoy this. In my experience. Nothing wrong with The Guardian, or with university, mind. But the film did very little for me - the characters are far too one-dimensional, and I don't care about any of them. I'm sure there's some postmodernism in that decision but it does mean the viewer spends 100 minutes watching losers waste their time and their lives while apparently affecting no-one else in the world (except allowing some 'racist cop' stereotype to annoy the audience). I'm sure the aforementioned masturbator feels their lives are made valuable by drink/drugs/vice but they're in control so it's fine.
Yes, they all use addiction to escape an existential quandary but there seems to be no message that a six-year-old couldn't explain to you in the park.
Get a life and do something, for fuck's sake.
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I've been wanting to see Pi for years now.
...and Requiem for a Dream sucked. I guess I can't relate because I'm not the "druggie" type of person. I mean I definitely don't HAVE to be like a character in a movie to relate to it(or like it), but I at least have to have some interest in whats going on.I guess I just don't feel sorry for the people in the stories, so the whole movie was a disappointment. The electroshock therapy freaked me out though. Its sad how they really do that to people. ANYWAYS.
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