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Requiem For A Dream
Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you';;re hooked, you';;re hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Despite their aspirations of greatness, they succumb to their addictions. Watching the addicts spiral out of control, we bear witness to the dirtiest, ugliest portions of the underworld addicts reside in. The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions become stronger.
26 December 1966, Brooklyn, New York, USA
26 November 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
26 September 1968, New York City, New York, USA
24 January 1941, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
24 July 1969, Brooklyn, New York, USA
7 October 1959, Syracuse, New York, USA
23 July 1972, New York City, New York, USA
12 February 1972, Evanston, Illinois, USA
May 14, 2011
Translating this into a music video would make a lot more sense than the film does in present form
September 08, 2009
A gut-wrenching, formally adventurous masterpiece or an ugly, flashy piece of empty-headed propaganda?
July 06, 2010
Unfortunately, about halfway through, the film takes a (deliberate) nosedive into the depths of human degradation from which it never emerges.
February 20, 2014
As uncompromising a work of art as you can ever view.
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.
January 19, 2001
If this is the future of cinema, I'd rather be home watching television.
July 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.
September 20, 2011
A staccato narrative parallels the experiences and hallucinations of a woman on drugs with those of her son and his friends.
January 19, 2001
Conveys, visually, sonically and dramatically, the siren call of addiction like no other movie has.
January 19, 2001
Both bleak and bleakly funny, appalling in its excesses and exhilarating in its execution.
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.
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.
