respectful...

Rating: Null/10 (31 August 2001)

remember "a clockwork orange?" remember how they rigged alex up, making him feel nauseous when he watched the doctor's violent movies, so he wouldn't do the things shown to him? i've seen requiem for a dream twice. the first time, i just felt kind of numb after it, a bit overloaded. then i realized that i was shocked. and not just a little, but a lot. not by any of the visuals. i mean, i've seen countless hours of horror movies, traces(and faces) of deaths, gg allin videos, fox television programming, etc., but nothing has ever really shocked me as much as that... it's the whole emotional level of it, which hit me in a spot that wasn't quite so desensitized. the movie starts off tense, with harry arguing with his mom and such. as the movie progressed, the emotional stress/intensity, just builds and builds. the second time i watched it, i felt nauseous for some odd reason. i've never felt this way about a movie before, and it confuses me. i respect darren aronosky and his movie, but i'll be damned if i'm gonna watch it again. in fact, a bunch of my friends asked me to come over and watch it recently. i declined.