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I guess you could say that's sort of why I picked it, but not exactly. There is a typical teenage sentiment attached to it, watching it in 9th grade with my friends and discovering my own experimental side (not that I was looking to Requiem as a guide to that or anything, hah, definitely not).
I added Requiem to this list because I still think it's an objectively stunning movie. The cinematography, the direction, the music, the structure, everything. It's also one of the more impressive book-to-movie adaptations.
But that movie also carries a lot of weight for me... I watched it with my first serious boyfriend, who ended up dying of an overdose when I was 16, and whom I subsequently found out was deeper into hard drugs than I ever could have fathomed, naive as I was (I mean, if someone I cared about told me now that they had tried heroin "once," I wouldn't simply believe them, especially if they had depressive tendencies). So yeah, I have a very strong emotional connection to the film, but I wouldn't have added it to that list if I didn't think it could objectively hold its own.
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