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The film focuses on a quartet of doomed souls, but it's Ellen Burstyn--in a raw and bravely triumphant performance--who most desperately embodies the downward spiral of drug abuse. As lonely widow Sara Goldfarb, she invests all of her dreams in an absurd self-help TV game show, jolting her bloodstream with diet pills and coffee while her son Harry (Jared Leto) shoots heroin with his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) and slumming girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly). They're careening toward madness at varying speeds, and Aronofsky tracks this gloomy process by endlessly repeating the imagery of their deadly routines. Tormented by her dietary regime, Sara even imagines a carnivorous refrigerator in one of the film's most memorable scenes. And yet... does any of this have a point? Is Aronofsky telling us anything that any sane person doesn't already know? Requiem for a Dream is a noteworthy film, but watching it twice would qualify as masochistic behavior. --Jeff Shannon
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Darren Aronofsky |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 27 October, 2000 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Artisan |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Addiction Drama, Color, Confrontational, Down on Their Luck, Drama, Drug Addiction, English, Feature, Feature Film Drama, Feature Film-drama, Frantic, Grim, Hallucinatory, Harsh, Lurid, Mothers and Sons, Movie, Not For Children, Nudity, Paranoid |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | D11815D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 012236118152 |
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Customer Reviews of Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut)
Depressing This is a well made movie. However, I will tell you that buy watching this you are basically asking for a terrible experience. This is one of those movies where you have to force yourself to finish it. Its extremely depressing and will put you in a really bad/sad mood. I cannot watch this movie ever again. I give it 4 stars because the movie has the power to make me feel like that.
An overlystyilized after school special
(1) Drugs are bad, m'kay.
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>(2) Anyone can be addicted to anything, therefore anything is a drug, and that addiction to whatever can ruin your life.
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>These are the two main themes in Aronofsky's vastly overrated masterpiece for the MTV generation. The film reeks of it's generation's thorough shallowness; flashy jump cuts, those obnoxious noises (yeah, it's supposed to be unsettling,but it's not, it's just boring and obnoxious.), overly intense cinematography. It's gritty if your idea of a confrontational film is Bowling for Columbine.
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>It's certainly one of the most heavy handed films in recent memory, not to mention completely and totally biased. There's only one side of the coin here, folks, or maybe the coin only has one side? Nah, that's just ignorant. There are plenty of people who engage in "health risking" addictions who don't end up with their arm amputated or resorting to prostitution for rich guys.
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>It's tagged drama, but I think it's quite possibly the epitome of melodrama, as everything is so overblown it's laughable.
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>Like Fight Club, another film popular with the youngsters who would kill themselves if they had to sit down for a film far more unsettling, not to mention vastly more realistic, and that's John Cassavete's Faces, it's all about shock, trying to scare the bejeezus out of you with, again, overblown scenarios.
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>Well, Selby was a hack writer, so a hack film for a hack writer I suppose.
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i rated this a 3 because the quality and packaging was good , but the movie was lame, very boring.