After seeing your geoURL, I’ve noticed my info is out of date. Thanks for the reminder. I never look at that thing.

Eric, you’re quite welcome.

Etan, actually no—I thought your URL was pretty funny. If you look at Ken & Sarah neighbors, 22 miles East is a “swingers” blog. Yeah. I thought that concept went out with the 70′s.

There is only one other movie that I feel that way about… American History X. I will never watch that movie again. Its powerful, and important, and also banned from my dvd player. All because of the “curbing” scene.

To answer your question about whether such graphic measures are required to drive the point home… yes, they are. Our culture is one of unreality. People are constantly looking for a quick fix, or an easy way out. People think drugs are cool, because we always see the “anti-hero” of movies doing drugs, getting “chicks”, and generally acting tough. But it’s rare to see a film that takes those characters and follows them to where that path truly leads, because most people don’t want to see that part of things.

Films like Requiem for a Dream turn the media against itself – they use all the flashy techniques to show what’s beyond it all. They take something that is constantly peddling cool, and use it to peddle “real” – by the time the audience figures it out, they are already swept up in it, and it’s too late to block it out. The extremes they go to are both a part of that style of filmmaking (the cool peddler) and also are intended to break any barriers you have and brand themselves into your brain.

I will never watch either of those movies again. Not because they aren’t good…. but because I don’t need to. They play on an endless loop in my head whenever I think about them… and /that/ is the best anti-drug/anti-hate ad I can think of.

(P.S.: I don’t think you’re a twit

I do hate to engage in two flame wars at once, but after discovering that some twit who prattles on

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