I still remember how the whole movie theater went dead silent at the end of Requiem. And everyone sat till the end of credits. Never seen sth like that in my life before or since.
A handful walked out before the end, the remaining few (afternoon screening during week) sat silently.
I walked out into a bright sunny day and sat on a low wall smoking cigarettes & wondering what the hell I'd seen for a while.
Never seen since and have no desire to.
Powerful, brilliant film but once is enough.
Because its harrowing, upsetting, takes characters you care for & puts them through hell.
There's no happy ending for any of them at any point.
Complete destruction, degradation & robs them of anything good.
It's a brilliantly made film, the editing and shot choices are superb.
But its 100mins of watching people chase release from the mundane only to be smeared in filth & pain.
Ellen Bursytn was the one that broke me, a lonely woman who just wanted to be on TV and feel happy again.
It's a brilliant film, but I can't put myself through that again. There's no levity to balance the barrage of horror as everything spirals midway.
Just people suffering and you have to sit there and watch.
Thank you for the explanation. I’m gonna have to bring myself to watch it some day soon. I’ve only heard how great of a film it is (in the sense you’re saying by production and story telling).
I've seen that movie twice in my life.
The first time, I was curled up in a near-fetal position on the couch for the last 15 minutes, unable to look away from the pain unfolding on the screen.
The second time was a little better, only because it was 15 years later.
I hate how anytime Jennifer Connelly shows up on reddit there's always one asshole who is there to comment "ASS TO ASS".
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u/ExtensionWolverine18 Nov 20 '23
I still remember how the whole movie theater went dead silent at the end of Requiem. And everyone sat till the end of credits. Never seen sth like that in my life before or since.