Spun

Spun is a 2003 independent film directed by Jonas Akerlund. The film's title is a reference to the slang term for the way users feel after going multiple days without sleeping while on a crystal meth binge.

The film holds the Guiness Book of World Records for the most edit/cuts in a full-length feature film. It includes more than 5000 edits.

Akerlund has convincingly simulated the drug addicts desperation by using constant jolting cuts, juddery camerawork, rapid mood swings, nail biting and a general sense of unpredictable chaos.

The film got mixed reviews. 'Time Out London' accused the film of "smug amoralism", and claimed that director Akerlund simply re-uses other people's ideas and techniques. Roger Ebert was more empathetic in his review, where he described the film as having "effortless wickedness". His main appraisal is the fact that the film in no way attempts to romanticise any of the characters.

I think Spun shares great similarities between the earlier Requiem for a Dream as they both use the same type of frantic camerawork, editing and drug concept.