Requiem For A Dream
When their addiction becomes stronger than their resolve to be without, four individuals struggle to become free only to still succumb to the desires of the drugs.
23 July 1928, Brooklyn, New York, USA
4 June 1956, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
8 July 1968, San Francisco, California, USA
26 December 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, USA
29 September 1965, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
11 April 1939, New York City, New York, USA
12 February 1972, Evanston, Illinois, USA
4 June 1968, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
10 September 1954, Lafayette, Indiana, USA
23 November 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 October 1959, Syracuse, New York, USA
May 14, 2011
Translating this into a music video would make a lot more sense than the film does in present form
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.
January 19, 2001
Both bleak and bleakly funny, appalling in its excesses and exhilarating in its execution.
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.
February 20, 2014
As uncompromising a work of art as you can ever view.
September 20, 2011
A staccato narrative parallels the experiences and hallucinations of a woman on drugs with those of her son and his friends.
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.
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 08, 2009
A gut-wrenching, formally adventurous masterpiece or an ugly, flashy piece of empty-headed propaganda?
January 19, 2001
Conveys, visually, sonically and dramatically, the siren call of addiction like no other movie has.
July 06, 2010
Unfortunately, about halfway through, the film takes a (deliberate) nosedive into the depths of human degradation from which it never emerges.
January 19, 2001
If this is the future of cinema, I'd rather be home watching television.
