Must not sleep. Must warn others.

Requiem for a Dream falls into that first category as well for me.

The are two types of people in this world: those who enjoy the music of RFAD, and those who have seen the movie.

Well, I guess I'm the third kind. I find the movie to be powerful in the depiction of the devastation caused by addiction. It does it's job excellently,it's also very gripping, but it's definitely not a joy to watch. I mostly become depressed after watching it. But I do watch it every 3 years or so :-)

Incidentally, I first heard the music when I watched the movie. The whole casting and TV selling and drug buying scene was framed by this music, and it felt very dirge-like. A foreshadowing of what was to come. And my mind associated it very strongly with those kind of tragic scenarios. But later I started seeing videos on Youtube about football or dogs with the same music.

That's interesting to me, as I found Videodrome very rewatchable, mostly due to the "OK let's try again to figure out wtf actually happened here..." effect.

On the other hand, I'm actively avoiding A Clockwork Orange...