That is the reason to wake up every day. "Requiem of Dreams".
After reading it, I realized that it would be Anti-drug Day in two days. . It is purely coincidental. It can also be said to be fate.
We have seen how terrible drug use is in the bulletin board outside the drug rehabilitation center. This film also basically said this: drug use will have a great deal of damage to your body, will make you hallucinate, and destroy your nervous system. For women, it is even more terrible (now it looks terrible for men too!). Those who are addicted to drugs but can't afford drugs will trade them with their bodies. Drugs are not the original origin of evil, but they are the closest to its origin. It is an extreme manifestation of the origin of sin—a desire that can never be satisfied and is easily restless.
This film is not about desire, the previous sentence is my personal opinion.
Although the sections in the film are relatively old (maybe Lao Mei did not organize to watch the anti-drug propaganda film), the structure of the film is also a very straightforward tragic structure-to tear up the beautiful things for you step by step. Some things are rendered a bit clichéd, such as the drug addict finally remembering his mother's embrace, such as the rotten and rotten attitude of the anti-drug department. . But the technique is really avant-garde. Close-up of the characters and their actions in the same scene on separate screens (also in "The Founding of the Party". But the monotony is just slap the face and the back of the head. There is no effect...), a large number of insertions are performed with static object montages and extremely exaggerated sound effects. Drug scenes, candid camera positions, post-drug illusions that are treated like ghost films, MTV-style cutting of the climax part, and extreme ugliness deterioration in character settings, etc. . . One word-Hyun!
The dazzling skills on the lens are easy to be scolded and exaggerated. But the soundtrack of this film is a bright spot. You have definitely heard that piece of music, but I just know the source is here. Most of the time the film is played in a loop with several soundtracks, like despair and occasional struggle against despair. The soundtrack stabilizes the dazzling lens language, and the atmosphere of the film is just right.
This film tells the story of four addicts. Three are young people: Harold, Mary, and Tyrone. The film does not say the reason for their drug use, but it can be roughly figured out that it is nothing more than young people seeking excitement. Or the reason why it is not clear is that the reason why young people take drugs actually does not attract people's sympathy-because they are frivolous, because they are ignorant. It is easy for people to attribute their sins to their own moral qualities. Saving this plot to show the story of another addict is the biggest success of the film-a middle-aged woman also takes drugs. The reasons for her drug use seem to be more complicated and regrettable than those of the three young people, but in fact her reasons include the reasons for the young people.
Harold's mother Sara is a widow. She is alone with a live show that talks about weight loss every day. Suddenly she received an invitation to this show and was able to become the protagonist of a certain episode of their show. In order to be able to wear her favorite red dress on the show, she began to lose weight. In order to speed up the effect, she started taking a quick-acting medicine. The son went home and found that the drug was actually a drug, but he couldn't persuade his mother, so he could only leave sadly. The more Sara ate, the more potent she felt, and she started to increase the dosage, and later developed the illusion that she would eat herself in the refrigerator without eating. Tormented by the hallucinations, she ran to the program team and asked when she could be on TV, but she had already taken drugs and became a lunatic. She was taken to the rehabilitation facility by the police and finally became a lunatic.
Why does she take drugs? At first glance, it seemed like an accident, caused by an unscrupulous weight-loss doctor. Why does she want to lose weight? Because she already made participating in that show her only goal in life. Her husband passed away early, and her son was losing all of her wealth. Lonely, she actually likes to eat before losing weight, which is actually an addiction. So she can't lose weight through a normal diet. She also had hallucinations before she took the medicine, and hamburger cookies and everything were smashed at her in the form of behemoths. So her drug use is inevitable, but this drug is different. What embodied in Sara is the terrible addiction. No matter what kind of things, when you have no sustenance, they will become your addiction to resolve troubles or find the value of life. Sarah's life is tragic enough, and the indifference of people around her makes her feel that only by appearing on the show can she get at least the attention of her neighbors. The isolation between members of society makes no amount of education, no matter how strong the heart is.
The film is cleverly divided into two parts. Part of it is through young people showing the physical harm of drug use. In the film, young people sit there giggling after taking drugs. We can't see their hearts, but they are crazy when they don't have drugs. The naked desire in human nature makes people feel that they are watching a few demons in despair. Harold's decaying left hand, the yellow foam that Tyrone vomited when he was dizzy, and Mary's body trampled by people who were scorned in front of the well-dressed beasts. The MTV-style tragic scene at the end of the film was really uncomfortable for me. The other part is to use Sara to show the deep level of drugs, that is, the harm that addiction brings to people's hearts. The two are independent and connected to each other, and ultimately constitute this high-quality work with rigorous structure and novel techniques. . . .
Even the ending subtitles (no music used. I used very depressing street recordings) and the official website are very dazzling! ~
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