The film Requiem for a dream shows how four people have been effected by addiction. The pain that they feel is emphasised through the use of repetitive imagery and sound which confront the viewer. This film is relate able to with Thomas Hirschhorn's Twin-Subjecter. At one point in the film The pain that they feel is so strong that it consumes their whole body, like nails piercing the flesh. The camera flashes from one character to the other as they go through pain, the root cause is the same but they experience it in different ways. Similarly in Hirschhorn's piece the nails and screws are clustered in certain parts of the body. I have felt pain before but on viewing Hirschhorn's piece I found it difficult to sympathize or relate to the figures. I think that by viewing this film it gave me a different perspective on his piece.
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