![]() ![]() By uni standards, it’s unheard of.Įventually (after thoroughly checking our lecture hall wasn’t alight), we ran out of time. All because we needed to see the last third of this film. But we were still there, an hour after a false alarm fire scare. This was weird in itself – usually no one would even turn up for a lecture. At this point, it’s a little like The Breakfast Club in the sense that we’d never spoken before – but we couldn’t resist gauging what the rest of us felt about this film.Īn hour passed and we were still stood outside in conversation. The lecturer (a cool, interesting guy that had warned us Requiem for a Dream wasn’t great for a Monday morning) snapped into action and started herding all eight of us out of the building.Īfter milling around for half an hour, the eight of us started to talk to each other. It seemed as though it was part of the sequence – with quick, sharp cuts, haunting score and vociferous sound effects, the sound of an alarm only complemented the experience.īut after a half a minute or so, it dawned on us that is was a real fire alarm. Halfway through the film, just as things are escalating nicely, an alarm sounded. Much like the eye on the poster, my pupils dilated and I didn’t blink once. There were only around eight people in the lecture and we were sporadically dotted around a theatre that could hold 500 (god forbid you’d sit next to someone you didn’t know), so it felt very much like a solitary cinema experience.įrom the first few seconds, I was hooked. It was my first year, and it changed my life. I watched it for the first time at university in a lecture theatre. Requiem for a Dream was the first film I watched that I considered ‘different’ to what I’d ever seen before. But there’s one film that stayed with me long after watching (six years later and it’s still vivid in my mind like it’s playing on the backs of my eyelids). The kind of films I could talk about for hours on end, for all sorts of different reasons. First of all, there’s a lot of films that I love.
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