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Last month's film festival seemed to go rather well, I think, so here it is, time for this month's film festival.

There were plenty of movies suggested for this month, but I think that the ones that stand out the most are the ones suggested by EscalatorToHell, which fit into the drug-related theme.

Before I introduce the movies, let me layout some of the guidelines for this film festival.

The Terms of Service and the general rules of Inside Discussions still apply in this thread. Act like a moron and you'll be treated like a moron.
The intention of this film festival is to expose people to great movies and stimulate discussion and forum cohesion through the discussion of the films featured.
You may at any time suggest a movie (or a theme) for the following month; however, failure to participate in the film discussions will immediately put your suggestion in the back of the line.
If you are having trouble finding a movie, do not make a request in this thread for someone to post a bootleg or illegal copy of the film, this will result in you being banned for an indetermined amount of time.
I have included several links to other various sites that feature reviews, discussions, and spoilers pertaining to the film. Feel free to utilize those links to help stimulate the discussions here. Do not plagerize, however.
I have also included a direct link to Amazon.com's listing for each film. If you enjoyed the film, please make use of this feature and purchase a copy of the film; by doing so you are both supporting those involved in creating the film and also INTL through the commission that is generated.

With that said, allow me to introduce the films for this month.

Requiem For A Dream (2000)

Link To Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CXP1/ref=ase_interestingno-20/102-0453124-9216103?v=glance&s=dvd
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/
IMDB Rating: 8.4/10 (36,570 votes) Rated #53 on the top250
Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/requiem_for_a_dream/
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 78% Fresh
Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60001134&trkid=73
Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
Language: English
MPAA Rating: NC-17 (Director's Cut) / R (Edited Edition)
Plot Summary: Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you're hooked, you're hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Doing their best to succeed in the world, but failing miserably, four people get hooked on various drugs. Despite their aspirations of greatness, they succumb to their addictions. Watching the addicts spiral out of control, we bear witness to the dirtiest, ugliest portions of the underworld addicts reside in. It is shocking and eye-opening but demands to be seen by both addicts and non-addicts alike.

Trainspotting (1996)

Link To Amazon (Collector's Edition): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001XALTG/ref=ase_interestingno-20/102-0453124-9216103?v=glance&s=dvd
Link To Amazon (Regular Edition): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6304806442/ref=ase_interestingno-20/102-0453124-9216103?v=glance&s=dvd
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 (43,761 votes) Rated #201 on the top250
Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/trainspotting/
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 89% Fresh
Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60037022&trkid=129205
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle
Language: English
MPAA Rating: R
Plot Summary: A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

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Link To Amazon (Regular Edition): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0783229526/ref=ase_interestingno-20/102-0453124-9216103?v=glance&s=dvd
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120669/
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 (16,496 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fear_and_loathing_in_las_vegas/
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 39% Rotten
Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?trkid=73&movieid=11819434
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire
Language: English
MPAA Rating: R
Plot Summary: An adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name. The film details a whacky search for the "American Dream", by Thompson and his crazed, Samoan lawyer. Fueled by the massive amount of drugs they purchased with an advance from a magazine to cover a sporting event in Vegas; they set out in the Red Shark. Encountering police, reporters, gamblers, racers, and hitchhikers; they search for some undefinable thing know only as the "American Dream" and find fear, loathing and hilarious adventures into the dementia of the modern American West.

Blow (2001)

Link To Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CXWV/ref=ase_interestingno-20/102-0453124-9216103?v=glance&s=dvd
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221027/
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 (14,387 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blow/
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 54% Rotten
Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60020891&trkid=73
Directed by: Ted Demme
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente
Language: English
MPAA Rating: R
Plot Summary: George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner. Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment. In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him into a partnership to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes instrumental in establishing the exploding US market for cocaine in which he claimed that he handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970's. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his dangerously treacherous occupation catch up with him in ways from which would he never recover.

Traffic (2000)

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Link To Amazon (Regular Edition): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000067IZ3/ref=ase_interestingno-20/102-0453124-9216103?v=glance&s=dvd
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181865/
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 (35,741 votes) Rated #242 on the top250
Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1103281-traffic/
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92% Fresh
Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60003243&trkid=73
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Michael Douglas, Topher Grace, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Language: English / Spanish
MPAA Rating: R
Plot Summary: Intertwining vignettes frame this tale of America's escalating War on Drugs. Ohio Supreme Court judge Robert Wakefield has been appointed the nation's Drug Czar, his new position made more daunting by the discovery that his teenage daughter Caroline is a heroin addict. Meanwhile, DEA agents Montel Gordon and Ray Castro are pursuing Helena Ayala, wife of jailed kingpin Carlos Ayala, as she seeks to the control the business that her husband had kept hidden from her. South of the Border, duplicious local constable Javier Rodriguez is fighting the battle with his own jaded, questionable ethical code.

So there you have it. Five movies. One month. Enjoy the films and please don't forget to give your two cents worth to the rest of us.

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Requiem for a dream was a very good film. The photography was creative and drew you in, keeping your attention to situations. For the first 40 minutes of the film, you actually think that there's going to be a happy ending, but slowly it all falls apart and suddenly events turn predictable.

I don't think I've ever watched a movie with such a dramatic ending. The music and acting sends this incredibly strong emotion through you and makes you feel for the people in the film. You want to help them.

What sent the shock through me was the reality of it. How something like that could actually happen. Becoming obssessed with something so much that you start to loose the things that are the most important to you. To be honest it scared the shit out of me. I know now that I'm never going to touch heroin, or any other drug, ever in my life.

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I've actually seen Blow already, and I thought the movie was fantastic. Johnny Depp did an excellent job of portraying that role; I was sucked into the movie. I was a little disappointed at the limited span of Salma Hayek's role and with the beginning moving pretty slowly. But the plotline was a good one, the script matched the action well, and it was on the whole well done. It was drug entrepreneurship at its best and its worst.

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The only one I haven't seen is Blow.

Requiem: Grueling and obviously pessimistic. One of the ultimate downer films I've seen. The reveal on Leto's wound is fucking horrifying. Arronofsky is a genius. I mean, he actually made a movie with Jennifer Connely nude and sex scenes monumentally depressing.

Trainspotting: Alternately hilarious and disturbing, Trainspotting is very entertaining. An excellent story of redemption. Should probably see again.

Fear and Loathing: Pretty fucking funny, at least for the first half. It gets positively frightening later on, though, and can get boring for some. Great cameos and some of the best one liners available. Depp is once again a revelation.

Traffic: Impressive because it actually looks at some of the problems with the drug war. Benicio does good, of course, and Zeta-Jones' character follows a very interesting path.

Oh yeah.
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I'll comment on the one I saw most recently:

Trainspotting

I think the cinematography could've been handled a bit better. There were some scenes where I was embarassed to be so into the movie, because it was quite cheesy i.e. when Renton gets high and everything is seen through him as though he's sunken into the carpet.

After watching it for the second time, I decided that the AIDS storyline could've been integrated a lot more in the beginning of the film or something. When Tommy gets it, it's sort of like "WAIT WHAT THE FUCK?" and then you realize you know, so that's what Renton's whole hallucination at his parent's house was for.

Am I the only one who didn't understand 50% of the dialogue in the first couple scenes? Eventually I got used to it, but CHRIST that's a horrible accent. I eventually just put on the damn subtitles because I was lazy and didn't feel like having to go back a scene to pick up what was going on. Also, after seeing it a couple times, I began using "doss cunt" as an insult. Good ol' Begbie.

Something I admired about this movie was the fearless approach to showing the drug use. I thought the camera would cut away, but no, you see the fucking needle go into the vein. The scene where Renton goes back to get a hit from mother superior after quitting the first time is brutal. The suspense and apprehension, for me at least, when he was prepping with the belt and getting ready to shoot up was unbearable. But then, there's the shot of the heroin going into his body, and everything's all relaxed. At that point I was really engulfed in the movie. I felt like I knew what he was experiencing (and I obviously have no clue).

I'd say I really need to buy this on DVD and stop wearing out the same copy from Blockbuster every couple weeks. Once I get a paycheck.

EDIT- I have to say my favorite, favorite part of the movie is the narration. In Adaptation there's that line about how using a narrator is sloppy screenwriting, or something like that, and I completely disagree. That's what pulls me into movies, because it feels like you're seeing it through the eyes of the character instead of as some outside entity. You get the full effect of a certain bias too. I wouldn't have sympathized with Renton and his friends had I not heard the "we're not that fucking stupid" lines regarding heroin use.

The "Choose Life" speech is something that convinced me to pick up the book. I really should've read it beforehand, but I'm lazy. In my opinion, any movie that inspires someone to pick up a book is a success in some way, shape or form.

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Quoted from greek_marquis:
For the first 40 minutes of the film, you actually think that there's going to be a happy ending, but slowly it all falls apart and suddenly events turn predictable.

Maybe you just anticipate things differnetly than I, but what exactly what so predictable about the events?

Requiem for a Dream

I just watched this for the millionth time so I could review it while it's fresh.

If I had to pick one word to describe this film it'd be "powerful." I've never been so mentally affected by cinema. Sure, it's bleak and depressing, but those words make Requiem seem like a complete downer. And it is. But there's a lot more to it than pure sadness and unfortunate events. It's a movie that, I feel, is easy to relate to, so the end result is a bit of an impact.

There's a lot of raw human emotion and honesty in the movie. Sarah Goldfarb's little speech about how the red dress is her reason for living, and how she doesn't have a reason to get out of bed in the morning is just so fucking honest that you can't help but feel for the character. Hopelessness is one of those emotions that's hardly ever articulated fairly. There's usually something held back and, I don't know, I guess that scene was so open and raw that it ended up as shocking.

The one thing that somewhat bothers me about the general direction is how cheesy some of the sound effects are. Ex. when Sarah's eating the coffee and the boiled egg and you hear a fast little slurp and a fast little crack. I mean, it sort of added to the atmospheric quality, I guess, but it's sort of...silly. The sound effects for every little thing work nicely with the last scenes, though, so maybe it was necessary to have them throughout the movie. I don't know.

Requiem for a Dream is a movie that, even after watching a couple dozen times, has never worn off for me effect-wise. I still cry at the end and I still can't keep my eyes open when Harry shoots up in the car on the way to Miami. Maybe I'm the only one who hasn't become jaded after a couple viewings. I'm somewhat glad I haven't. It's not a movie I can get sick of, in that sense at least.

The end has never worn off on me either. I still lay there unable to move for a couple minutes.

I'd like to point of the parental-themes in the movie, which I'm sure others have picked up on, but I think it's a crucial part of the movie to discuss. Of course, there's the strained relationship between Harry and his mother which sort of drives them both into their addictions. Sarah is lonely because he's not around, and he's obviously upset a lot because of her such as when he shoots up in the taxi after talking to her about getting her a new TV. It's an escape from the due guilt trip that made me cry when he first got in. There's also the fact that Harry's father is dead. Then we have Tyrone, whose hallucinations center around his mother. ex. the mirrors. Marion has parental issues as well, as she says she wants to get away from them etc. The last time we see all the characters, they're in the fetal position. Tyrone on his jail bed, Harry struggling on his hospital bed, Marion on her couch after the lesbian orgy thing, and Sarah in the psych ward.

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If i recal, Tyrone wasn't hallucinating, he was just remembering.

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I think the cinematography could've been handled a bit better. There were some scenes where I was embarassed to be so into the movie, because it was quite cheesy i.e. when Renton gets high and everything is seen through him as though he's sunken into the carpet.

but didn't you also think it was quite inventive? like, with the baby on the ceiling... and, uh, some other things. alright, i haven't seen this film in about fifty-five years, so i don't know what i'm talking about it. i do have quite strong memories of unusually good cinemotography, though.

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Am I the only one who didn't understand 50% of the dialogue in the first couple scenes? Eventually I got used to it, but CHRIST that's a horrible accent.

why, yes, it is. i don't think i'll ever get used to it. i have a glaswegian brother-in-law (paul from franz ferdinand), and i can just about understand him talk--but when, on isolated occasions, his relatives talk to me, i just blank out. "sorry, what?" i blame colonialism.

i have no real point to make. but i do love trainspotting. the book's a bit shit, though.

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Quoted from EscalatorToHell:
Quoted from greek_marquis:
For the first 40 minutes of the film, you actually think that there's going to be a happy ending, but slowly it all falls apart and suddenly events turn predictable.

Maybe you just anticipate things differnetly than I, but what exactly what so predictable about the events?

Upon seeing Harry's wound, you know that he's going to get his arm chopped off. Sarah becomes helpless as she has more and more hallucinations, and that soon she's going to be in a padded room or will stumble upon severe medical attention. When Harry and Tyrone or whatever that black guys name is doesn't get the pure, it's evident, to me, that they won't have any money and will become desperate to get cash. Then suddenly they go to Miami, and from this point on, I knew it was going to get worse.

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If you know that a requiem is a mass or song for the dead, you should see where it's going.

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Quoted from greek_marquis:
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For the first 40 minutes of the film, you actually think that there's going to be a happy ending, but slowly it all falls apart and suddenly events turn predictable.

Maybe you just anticipate things differnetly than I, but what exactly what so predictable about the events?

Upon seeing Harry's wound, you know that he's going to get his arm chopped off. Sarah becomes helpless as she has more and more hallucinations, and that soon she's going to be in a padded room or will stumble upon severe medical attention. When Harry and Tyrone or whatever that black guys name is doesn't get the pure, it's evident, to me, that they won't have any money and will become desperate to get cash. Then suddenly they go to Miami, and from this point on, I knew it was going to get worse.

Next time, use the [ spoiler ] tag when detailing the ending.

Anyhow, calling it "predictable" puts the movie in the Fast and Furious genre. That just bothered me, because yes, you can figure it out beforehand, but the movie isn't blatantly obvious nor does it have a slow-developing plot.

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I think the cinematography could've been handled a bit better. There were some scenes where I was embarassed to be so into the movie, because it was quite cheesy i.e. when Renton gets high and everything is seen through him as though he's sunken into the carpet.

I don't know. Heroine creates a pretty increidble physical dependancy so I can imagine it must be an extraordinary battle to quit...

I didn't like the part where he climbs into the toilet.. I felt that was just sort of unecessary. Although the whole idea of him fishing them out of that shitty-ass toilet is a fairly strong and dramatic depiction of some of the desperation involved in drug use.

I liked the music though. Bedrock and Underworld were featured, if I recall.

Anyhow, Blow tonight.

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i've seen these movies, and don't really have a lot to add regarding them due to the fact that i wasn't terribly entertained. i would, however, like to add BubbaHo-Tep to next month's list if i may.

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I've seen most of these movies, the most recent of which was Requiem, which I saw last week. I immediately went out and bought the DVD the next morning. An excellent film, one that cuts right through the bullshit of modern melodramatic cinema, into pure human emotion.

I feel comfortable calling it the greatest movie on this list.

It is hard to imagine a collection of drug-themed movies without a single Cheech and Chong film...Maybe next time.

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Today I went out and bought Requiem for a Dream and Donnie Darko because Suncoast was having a 2 for $22 sale, and I couldn't resist.

I hadn't seen but bits and pieces of Requiem for a Dream, but everyone says what a great movie it is, so I had no problems just going ahead and getting it.

Anyway, the movie was fantastic. I loved how graphic the whole thing was, it made me feel like I could understand what Harry, his mother, and Marian were going through, even though I obviously can't. The thing that bothered me the most about the movie was the fact that Harry's mother (I forget her name) never got better. It bothers me because, for me, mother-figures are always supposed to do what's right and good, and everything is always supposed to be okay with them. But in this movie, she ends up going to the hospital and, from the looks of things, doesn't get any better.

I was so wrapped up in the movie that by the end of it I forgot it was a movie and was close to tears because that's not how I wanted things to end for them.

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I would like to say that Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors due to his unrelenting versatility. I have seen Blow and Fear and Loathing and the way Depp completely engrosses himself into his roles is awe inspiring. I also appreciate the effort that went into showing the actual effects of the drugs in Fear and Loathing. I have taken some of those drugs and can say I've experienced very similar results.
It's been a while since I've seen Traffic but I from what I can remember I liked the way they showed different sides to the same story. Benecio was cast a great role and played it very well along with the roles of the children. I appreciate how it showed a higher class of society having the same addictions and problems as the lower classes. It is a problem that everyone knows is there but no one likes to talk about.

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Here's something to discuss:
Which of the four characters in Requiem had the worst fate?

The majority of this post is spoiler, so I'm not going to make it all tagged.

[ SPOILER ]

Although Harry lost a limb, you know that he will probably reform and get control of his life...especially with having the lack of an arm as a constant reminder of what can happen if he goes back to drugs.
In my opinion, Tyrone probably won't go back to drugs either. The way that he threw up in the food really makes me believe that he did it out of guilt from letting his mother down like that.

Which leaves Marion and Sarah. Sarah has a pretty fucked up ending...being totally fucking nuts. But she WILL be receiving some sort psychiatric help, and if not, she would probably be kept under controlled amounts of drugs in the hospital.

Which brings me to my answer: Marion. In her fetal position, you can see her clutching her heroin. Right after that horribly degrading ass-to-ass scene, she falls back to her heroin to keep her sane. She will probably go back to equally as degrading stuff to get her money, which she will need to use to buy more heroin to numb away the humiliaty.

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Although Harry lost a limb, you know that he will probably reform and get control of his life...especially with having the lack of an arm as a constant reminder of what can happen if he goes back to drugs.

Or he could self-medicate with heroin all the more.

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Sarah has a pretty fucked up ending...being totally fucking nuts. But she WILL be receiving some sort psychiatric help, and if not, she would probably be kept under controlled amounts of drugs in the hospital.

I always assumed that once Harry returned to NY, and found his mother in the hospital, she would have cleaned up from the uppers and downers of the weight medicaton. Possibly they could get each other back to a realitively normal state.

This is assuming that the shock therapy didn't warp Sarah's brain beyond help.

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Another cool fact about Requim is when they were filming Sara Goldfarb on speed cleaning the room. They made the actress clean the room for about 4-8 hours as the camera (at real time) filmed her doing the cleaning for that long. When I read about that I was really impressed by the detail in the director.

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Can we watch Rounders next month?

asthetik - year 04/05

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I loved the movie trainspotting because like many of you I am known as a drug addict. I love the way they make me feel. So watching the movie is so funny to me because I'm wondering if I look Like that with I'm craving my drug of choice. All the movies touched me someway somehow. Made me cry,laugh,an plain out pass out. Thank you

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I was thinking for next month we could have maybe a gangster/seedy crime underworld theme.

Some suggestions:
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Pulp Fiction
Scarface
Goodfellas
The Godfather
Reservoir Dogs

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asthetik
I SHOULD READ THE HALL OF REJECTS MORE OFTEN!

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I concur.

Other suggestions: (these are the ones I haven't seen but would like to)
Heat
Casino

Also, The Usual Suspects is a must.

asthetik - year 04/05

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Plug for a historic war theme.

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