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Requiem For A Dream
Following the lives of addict who struggle to overcome their addictions whilst trying to attain greatness. Their days of falling back and getting out of control and how they end up becoming shattered when the addiction becomes stronger.
26 December 1966, Brooklyn, New York, USA
29 September 1965, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
26 November 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
7 October 1959, Syracuse, New York, USA
11 April 1939, New York City, New York, USA
24 June 1980, Brooklyn, New York, USA
September 08, 2009
A gut-wrenching, formally adventurous masterpiece or an ugly, flashy piece of empty-headed propaganda?January 19, 2001
Both bleak and bleakly funny, appalling in its excesses and exhilarating in its execution.January 19, 2001
If this is the future of cinema, I'd rather be home watching television.July 06, 2010
Unfortunately, about halfway through, the film takes a (deliberate) nosedive into the depths of human degradation from which it never emerges.May 14, 2011
Translating this into a music video would make a lot more sense than the film does in present formJuly 18, 2011
Aronofsky's second feature is an emotionally intense, relentlessly grim tale of forms of addiction that may rely too much on montage to achieve real dramatic impact.June 24, 2006
Burnished camerawork and ex-Pop Will Eat Itself head Mansell's part-punchy, part-elegiac score reinforce and counterpoint the increasingly nightmarish visuals.September 17, 2010
"Dream" glamorizes nothing en route to a near-nauseating finale, which feels like a rollercoaster car hitched off the track and hurtled into hell's depths. A decade later, it still follows through with full force on its cautionary stomach punch.May 08, 2001
[It] may be a bummer to some audiences, so harsh is its view of the drug culture. But no one interested in the power and magic of movies should miss it.January 19, 2001
Conveys, visually, sonically and dramatically, the siren call of addiction like no other movie has.September 20, 2011
A staccato narrative parallels the experiences and hallucinations of a woman on drugs with those of her son and his friends.February 20, 2014
As uncompromising a work of art as you can ever view.