I dunno I think Trainspotting is somehow more disturbing because of the drastic shifts in tone, you'll have a comical scene where Ewan McGregor crawls into a toilet one moment and a scene where a f*cking baby dies the next. You have characters like Sick Boy and Begbie who are funny at first but then they turn out to be complete monsters. It's a film that drops really heavy sh*t on you when you least expect it and the contrast of the comedy makes those moments stick out more for me.
Requiem for a Dream meanwhile is one big crescendo of increasingly depressing stuff, it's all very sad but the film builds up to it so there's nothing quite as jarring as some of those scenes in Trainspotting that hit you like, well... a train.
Last edited by Queen Boo; 01-28-2023 at 01:51 AM.
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