Miller shut the fuck up :wally
Just for the record, I never said that they should censor drug use in the movies. It’s kinda like Coldfires post, make a movie about drugs, censor the nudity and swear words, what for? To market it to kids? I myself didn’t have a problem with the content of the movie, like I said, I liked the movie and generally don’t mind such things as drug use, nudity, swearing, etc… It just doesn’t make any sense to censor nudity and swearing, but widely unaccepted forms of drug use is ok? I’m basically calling who ever does this shit a hippocrite. That’s all, carry on.
Reminds me of the great Lenny Bruce routine about watching a movie with kids (paraphrase)
“Look, he’s going up to her - he’s probably going to stab her or choke her - whoops -he’s kissing her - he’s taking off her blouse!
Kids, look away! I’m sorry you had to see that.”
Well, I’ve never seen a censored flick from Hollywood. However, I don’t gravitate towards movies that glorify drug use, either, so Requiem or whatever isn’t on my list of movies I have to watch.
Like I said before, If I want to watch a new release, I go to Hollywood. If I want an Indie flick, I go elsewhere.
Sam
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Requiem hardly glorifies drug use- it just shows it (and the nasty consequences) in rather disturbing detail. If anything, it’s the most effective anti-drug advertisement I’ve ever seen, showing a group of people, young and old alike, literally destroying their lives over a two hour period thanks to their addictions.
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Tarrsk, Someone said above the Requiem was “…was decidely anti-drug in the same vein as Trainspotting…”, and though it’s one of my favcorite movies, I never saw it as Anti-drug.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Sam
The censored version of “Over The Wire” (a Skinamax kinda film) was obtained from Hollywood Video. Don’t know if it qualifies for indie status.
I said that and I think that it is. Trainspotting = people wrecking their lives with hard drugs. Requiem = people wrecking their lives with hard drugs. I don’t see how either movie could be considered to be glorifying drug use in any way.
Requiem didn’t really condemn drug use (in a narrative sense) but you’d have to be a complete moron to try heroin after watching it. Trainspotting on the other hand didn’t really disuade me from trying heroin although to be fair it didn’t really encourage me either.
Requiem is most definitely an anti-drug movie, as over the course of two hours you watch entire families crumble to nothing losing all their hopes and dreams because of one drug or another.
There is nothing whatsoever in that entire movie that glorifies the use of any kind of drug, from the guy and his girlfriend who want to open a fashion store to the middle-aged mother who desperately wants to fit into her red dress to be on television.
That movie makes using drugs look like a horror worse than death.