Hype is Bad !

Rating: Null/10 (14 February 2010)

It's a one feverish 100-minutes-long video clip. I wanted to say effective too, and it is in a way, but I won't. And that's why I'm writing about it now. Yes, the artistic points worked, Clint Mansell's music was fabulous, and the acting - especially from (Ellen Burstyn)'s side - was truthful to creepy extent, but all of that was in a bad hype.
The problem is that it deals with the addiction's lust - whether of drugs or TV - with lust as well. The pace of the movie, 2000 shots, the horizontal extension of the event, the complete collapse of all the characters' fates, and the absence of any positive type as well-made the whole thing as a catastrophic tragedy maybe as painful as the addiction itself!
I don't promote for a happy ending, or making a dream out of it. In fact, I find that the movie's own end is a real happy one compared to it. It just needed deep analysis for the reasons, not a volcano of results as we saw. Otherwise, it's only a study for the hell of images and sounds that an addict lives. Or, at worst, it's the longest, most exhausting, public service announcement against addiction. Both ways, the very substance became so strained and worn out.
In (Requiem for a Dream), dealing with important matter, and a social issue, as a horror movie was the real horrific thing. Hence, does it effect? Yes, but as one feverish 100-minutes-long video clip, not a movie. Simply with the hype, anything meaningful runs weak. So how about being with weak drama too?! In short, it hates drugs while looking like being on one!