Disturbing, Hopeless, Dishonest

Rating: Null/10 (29 December 2000)

This is a disturbing treatise on hopeless in the vein of "Dancer In The Dark". If you liked one, you'll probably like the other. As for me, I think that any work of art must have some element of hope in it or there is no point or value in it. As anti-drug propaganda it might work, but not as art.
While Pi came across as pretentious to me, Requiem did not so much. However, I can't believe that this film could possibly be an honest expression of the film-maker. If it is, then he must, like the film, be completely devoid of hope. And why would somebody completely devoid of hope make a movie... or do any meaningful work... or continue to live? If not art, and not propaganda, this film could possibly work as an extravagant suicide note.