# I love Requiem For A Dream. What else would I like? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843 "2004-02-18T19:07:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/1 "2004-02-18T19:07:23Z")
And yes, I’ve seen Pi. I like disturbing movies. I like to come away from a movie saying “Blimey. That was intense.” What would you recommend? ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/2 "2004-02-18T19:16:24Z")
The Princess and the Warrior (German, by the same director as Run Lola Run) Trainspotting ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/3 "2004-02-18T19:18:50Z")
Well, **Last House on the Left** is certainly intense and disturbing, so it meets those criteria. Problem is, it’s also “the worst in rape, violence, and the ugliness man can do”, which means you’ll feel like you need a shower after watching it. View at your own risk. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/4 "2004-02-18T19:28:30Z")
Julian Donkey-Boy. If by ‘intense’ you mean ‘disturbing’ then this is your movie ! I thought Requium was disturbing. And then a friend lent us this and said “Now this, this is disturbing.” He was right. I am still disturbed by images of this movie in my head. And I only saw half of it. (But the freestyling black albino from Alabama was pretty cool.) ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/5 "2004-02-18T19:45:34Z")
_Mulholland Drive_, though you probably have already seen it, would likely fit your criteria. _Magnolia_, and _Memento_, too. I’m sure there are also movies that don’t start with an M which would apply, but I can’t think of any just now. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/6 "2004-02-18T19:53:34Z")
> [@cowgirl](#): > > Julian Donkey-Boy. If by ‘intense’ you mean ‘disturbing’ then this is your movie ! > > I thought Requium was disturbing. And then a friend lent us this and said “Now this, this is disturbing.” > > He was right. I am still disturbed by images of this movie in my head. And I only saw half of it. > > (But the freestyling black albino from Alabama was pretty cool.) If you think Julien was bad get Gummo. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/7 "2004-02-18T20:17:00Z")
[Elvira Madigan](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061620/usercomments), a (very differently) stylized tale of doomed lovers, and based on a true story from Victorian-era Sweden. The social forces that threaten and coerce these lovers are as velvet-gloved as the menaces were obvious and brutal in Requiem. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/8 "2004-02-18T20:52:29Z")
Training Day was very intense, and was a really good movie. You might also check out The Limey, which was slightly less intense but very entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/9 "2004-02-18T21:01:23Z")
I thought _May_ was pretty disturbing. _Ravenous_ was interesting. Someone’s already mentioned _Mulholland Drive_ and, of course, _Blue Velvet_ fits the bill as well. _Seven_ and _Jacob’s Ladder_ also come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/10 "2004-02-18T21:08:57Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > If you think Julien was bad get Gummo. Yes. Get Gummo. Please see Gummo. Just the fact that BurnMeUp has seen Gummo encourages me that the 95 minutes I spent watching that movie actually did happen, and I didn’t lose my mind and thought I had seen a movie called Gummo. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/11 "2004-02-18T22:03:41Z")
If what you’re truly after is that disturbed, shaken post-screening feeling, go out and see **Elephant**. The entire audience I saw it with just crawled out of there, looking sad, all silent. My friend and I barely knew what to say to each other. I loved Requiem, btw, though I don’t think I was as disturbed by it as many people seem to be. And what’s with Mozart and tragedy? ---
**Author:** ![obidiah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@obidiah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obidiah)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/12 "2004-02-19T01:52:25Z")
I highly recommend this director for the intensity of his movies, especially Audition and Visitor Q. They walk that line of being disturbing,intense and darkly funny. Great stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/13 "2004-02-19T02:29:37Z")
I liked about one second of Requiem, that second being the second you’d get if you spliced all the shots of Jennifer Connelly doing the lesbian double dildo scene together. The rest of it … yech. If you’re wanting disturbing, try Eraserhead. I didn’t like ANY of it. ---
**Author:** ![gooti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eb8c5e/32.png) [@gooti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooti)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/14 "2004-02-19T02:33:45Z")
Have you seen [KIDS](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113540/) yet? It’s definately on my top ten list of movies…one of my favorites, actually…but, I’ve only seen it once, and that was enough for me. Very, very disturbing to me. ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/15 "2004-02-19T02:58:05Z")
12 Monkeys/Donnie Darko/Memento aren’t immediately disturbing… But as you leave the theatre/chair/couch and walk past/turn off/switch the channel the/your/on your box office/computer/television, your mind will stop functioning for a short while as you consider it. In shorter, these movies will throw you for a fucking loop. I recommend them in reverse order of appearance, though all are excellent. Ravenous is an awesome one - extremely intense, and it deserves a lot more recognition than it gets. Robert Carlyle is a god. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/16 "2004-02-19T02:59:11Z")
> [@obidiah](#): > > I highly recommend this director for the intensity of his movies, especially Audition and Visitor Q. They walk that line of being disturbing,intense and darkly funny. Great stuff. Add to that Ichi the Killer (Happiness of the Katakuris is skippable). Irreversible is ridiculously intense. ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/17 "2004-02-19T03:07:51Z")
> [@Raygun99](#): > > Irreversible is ridiculously intense. Please do warn him about the rape scene that made me almost physically ill. Donkey-Boy and Gummo folks: I’ve never heard of these movies. Could you tell me a little about them? ---
**Author:** ![Tarrsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@Tarrsk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarrsk)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/18 "2004-02-19T06:20:02Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > I liked about one second of Requiem, that second being the second you’d get if you spliced all the shots of Jennifer Connelly doing the lesbian double dildo scene together. The rest of it … yech. _raises eyebrow_ I can understand not liking the film, but I admit to some surprise that you could possibly receive any titillation from watching what was essentially the complete degradation and enslavement of a human life. Sure, Jennifer Connelly is hot, but that scene horrified me at least as much any of the other character denouements. It was (and still remains) one of the most jarring depictments of dehumanization I have ever seen. I have long considered that scene an amazing piece of work because, despite featuring the gyrating naked bodies of two very attractive women, I’ve never known any heterosexual men who found it sexually exciting to watch (until now, anyway). ---
**Author:** ![litost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@litost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/litost)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/19 "2004-02-19T06:48:02Z")
Gummo was disturbing for disturbing’s sake. Once you realize that, there is nothing left to save the film. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843/20 "2004-02-19T06:55:16Z")
I find it weird that _Magnolia_ popped up on this list. It wasn’t disturbing unless you really, really hated it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-requiem-for-a-dream-what-else-would-i-like/229843.md?page=2)