Requiem for a Dream

Writer/Director Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream is a fairly disturbing movie about the destructive effects of heroin and loneliness. The movie deals with the separate collapses of the lives of a mother and son in Brooklyn, NY. This is not a movie for the light-hearted. The drug use is excessive, and designed to make you think twice before heading down that path. The editing is most interesting, with repeated uses of the same footage for shoot-up sequences, and split-screen effects for conversations between people who are right next to each other anyway.


Rating: 7 out of 10.


Side note: Be sure to check out Darren Aronofsky's earlier film, Pi. Oh, and the web site for Requiem for a Dream is very clever too.