Task 2 - My filmic tastes

Last five films I’ve seen:
- Avatar
- The Hangover
- Aimee
- Die another day (james bond)
- Quadrophenia

Last film I saw at the cinema:
- Avatar
Avatar trailer

Favourite two genres:
- Comedy
- Action

Favourite all time films:
- Requiem For A Dream
- This is england
- Fight Club
- 300
- Gladiator

Favourite film of all time:
Requien for a dream
(2000)



Plot: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiralling out of control.

Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Ellyn Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
The above is taken from Wikipedia

I first discovered this film when my friend recomened me to it. I enjoyed Jared leto's role in the film fight club and i enjoyed fight club becuase it actually makes you think and uses very clever takes. Requim was this but better.
The director Aronofsky has a very distintive style that i love. During scenes mainly where characters are taking drugs it uses montages that work very well "Aronofsky uses montages of extremely short shots throughout the film (sometimes termed a hip hop montage). While an average 100-minute film has 600 to 700 cuts,Requiem features more than 2,000. Split-screen is used extensively, along with extremely tight closeups.Long tracking shots (including those shot with an apparatus strapping a camera to an actor, called the Snorricam) and time-lapse photography are also prominent stylistic devices" taken from wikipedia.
I also found the film very distressing and though its not a horror it was very scary to watch. It was one of those films where they wasnt a happy ending and in the end nothing good has happened, usually i dont like these films but in this case it worked very well. it would of destroyed everything the film aimed to set if in the end everything was fine and dandy.
The soundtrack was also very good in my opinion, the sound track suited the style and mood of the film very well. Clint Mansell — "Lux Aeterna is the name of song, its been used in many tv programs and films since its release.


The film received mostly positive responses from critics, with the film aggregator website, Rotten Tomatoes, giving the film an 80% "Fresh" rating, with the camera work and the individual performances particularly praised.
Nominated for Oscar. Another 20 wins & 34 nominations.