2002 Directed by Jonas Åkerlund
Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up with his old girlfriend, Amy.
Like Requiem for a Dream, but a way more realized and less melodramatic take on addiction. Also Mickey Rourke is putting on some great work in this role and certainly indicates what would be his stellar return to acting a few years later in a far more enjoyable Aronofsky film.
The Cook: "I tell ya, I remember a time when I was about... I was little, I don't know... 4, 5, something like that. We had this old dog that had a litter of puppies. And I walked in the bathroom one day and my mother was standing there, kneeling down... dog had a litter of about 8, and my mother was bending over killing each one of these little puppies in the bathtub. I remember I said "why?"— she said "I'm just killing what I can't take care of". Then my momma said to me, she looked at me and she said "I wish I could do that to you". Maybe she, maybe she shoulda."
Music video director Jonas Åkerlund balances out the pathos of his bizarre characters in Spun by allowing as little space as possible for them to feel comfortable. With over-focused close-ups to the pores of his actors' faces, to the fast-paced editing and shape-shifting camerawork that could make you feel the need to vomit, and finally with the somber over-baked zaniness of the overall events that take place, Spun doesn't take a breath from getting its characters from point A to point B without a little end-of-the-alphabet distractions. Not judging the dispicable junkie characters within only gives it the heart it otherwise wouldn't have held onto. (Mickey Rourke and Brittany Murphy are P-H-E-N-O-M-E-N-A-L.)
"my Mother was bending over killing each one of these little puppies in the bathtub. I remember I said 'why?'... She said 'Im just killing what I can't take care of' - Then my momma said to me, she looked at me and she said 'I wish I could do that to you'. - Maybe she, maybe she shoulda."
Man this fucking movie. I fucking loved this movie, it's like a mix of Natural Born Killers and Requiem For a Dream. This movie is definitely not for everyone. It's a really fast paced movie, everything moves quick, the scenes are short and fast which adds to the story of the film. I fucking loved the editing of this film and…
Liked this a lot more than I expected to tbh. There was little about it that was new to the drug film genre expect maybe that it at least wasn't about heroin, but that's okay.
I like that there wasn't really a true start and end, it feels like we're just seeing a little bit of the character's lives and most of them are just gonna continue on as before when the credits start rolling. A lot of the time I feel with drug based films there's some heavy handed moralising and I didn't really get that here, I felt more that it was just presenting the characters and we can make of them what we will.
I feel like…
Awful, awful stuff. A decent cast (Jason Schwartzman, Mickey Rourke, a sweet Brittany Murphy, Mena Suvari, Patrick Fugit, etc) is almost uniformly misused, the script is awful, and nothing much works for me, from the soundtrack choices to the editing to the horrible animated inserts.
If there were a Pinnacle of 90's film making style, this would be it. It's the perfect fusion of Requiem for a Dream and music videos from 95-01. Not a complaint, it was stylistically heavy and a bit absurd more than once but it's still a good one to see.
That. Was. Intense.
The intro to Hurdy Gurdy Man will always send shivers down my spine from now on.
The Cook: "I tell ya, I remember a time when I was about... I was little, I don't know... 4, 5, something like that. We had this old dog that had a litter of puppies. And I walked in the bathroom one day and my mother was standing there, kneeling down... dog had a litter of about 8, and my mother was bending over killing each one of these little puppies in the bathtub. I remember I said "why?"— she said "I'm just killing what I can't take care of". Then my momma said to me, she looked at me and she said "I wish I could do that to you". Maybe she, maybe she shoulda."
A really amazing film about drug addicts. Raw, but kinda funny, somehow. It is really a must watch.
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