Requiem for a Dream (2000)
This modern-day fable is set on the rusted mean streets of Coney Island, Brooklyn. The dual storyline parallels four people who set out in pursuit of a better life.
Cast and Information
Directed By: Darren Aronofsky
Written By: Darren Aronofsky, Hubert Selby Jr.
Starring: Keith David, Christopher McDonald, Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Jack O'Connell, Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans, Ajay Naidu, Louise Lasser, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Sean Gullette, Samia Shoaib
Country: USA
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ZayanK | 56 23% |
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After seeing it a second time, I decided it's shit.
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sophie | 100 99% |
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This movie is brilliant. Perfect score, amazingly edited, superb acting and seriously depressing.
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Moribunny | 5 2% |
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This entirely moronic film attempts to terrify you into its banal, truistic anti-drug agenda. Needless to say, there is not a whiff of real life to be found here, and the only thing that terrifies is the positive critical response to this trash.
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Danilolopes | 20 3% |
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Moralist, obvious and pretentious; one of the worst films i've ever seen!
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Leonardis | 96 91% |
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I was anxious the entire runtime. Aronofsky succeeds once again at taking something not so unusual and making it horrifying. A pretty depressing experience, being someone directly related to a few drug addicts. I can't believe people think this is laughable. I've heard stories. This may be stylistic, but it's close enough to real life if you ask me. Beautifully shot and edited, and Burstyn delivers one of the best performances I've seen maybe ever. Tragic, haunting, raw, and gorgeous.
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Anomaly | 55 23% |
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The real star of this film is the music: the incredible score by Clint Mansell is the reason why this film resonates with so many people. It's ultimately lacking in most other departments save acting - some interesting visuals don't mitigate the in-your-face-editing and a hollow story. We're never given a reason to care, and it doesn't provide us with anything more than a simplistic anti-drug message. Creates an intense experience, but not one worth any more than any other PSA.
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doctor7 | 35 21% |
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The soundtrack is very good but it's more of an endurance test of viewing everything that can possibly go wrong for all parties involved. By the end it just becomes ridiculous.
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Paxton | 92 98% |
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Ellen Burstyn gave the performance of a lifetime, but the Academy Award went to Julia Roberts' cleavage for Erin Brockovich.
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DavidBlast | 90 92% |
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Most anti-drug movies seem to waver uneasily between style and message. Where 'Trainspotting' was too cool and 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' too crazy to ever truly deter, it's safe to say that 'Requiem for a Dream' stays on message. As a rollercoaster to (and through) hell, it's a visually stunning account of substance abuse, equally satirical, beautiful, shocking and heartbreaking. If the "what-have-I-got, Harry?" speech doesn't make you cry, it's because you were conceived in a laboratory.
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terrymac | 90 97% |
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Slick and stylish, bleak and harrowing. This could easily just have focused on Sara's story which is easily the most tragic, yet somehow the most relatable. Such is the power of Burstyn's performance, the stories of the other three characters seem slighter, less engaging, by comparison, even though the performances were good and the fates of the characters tragic. It isn't smotheringly grim, but it's close, and must surely serve as a cautionary tale. Very good indeed.
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CHIMP | 13 1% |
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The potential of the first two acts, only slightly marred by the interference of flashy, nonsensical direction, eventually gives way to the most hysterically melodramatic conclusion I have ever witnessed on film, sledgehammered home with blaring soundtrack and editing. If you want a study of heroin addicts that might hold your interest, watch Trainspotting. If you want the longest, most gruelling anti-drugs PSA ever made, by all means watch this film.
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Pickpocket | 4 35% |
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By the end it becomes so ridiculous that everything leading up to it becomes pointless. I appreciate the effort, but painting drugs as THIS evil is a bit ridiculous.
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cagedwisdom | 100 90% |
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Has some of the best cinematography I've seen. The story is great (particularly towards the end, it meanders about without direction for too much of the first half), and it has an absolutely incredible musical score. My biggest problem was Jared Leto, whose acting I've always found to be unbearable and pretty hard to believe. Jennifer Connely is also too big a cliche in this. Still though, absolutely excellent. The kind of film everyone needs to see once.
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Dean Franz | 5 5% |
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Asinine and sometimes chuckleworthy story somewhere between Trainspotting (sans humor) and Reefer Madness. All of this glorious ineptitude is spiced liberally with laughable editing, cheap cinematographic eyecandy and worthless performances from all but the enjoyably unhinged excesses of Burstyn. Alternately ridiculous, boring and unintentionally funny, this is the perfect example of new century style-over-substance cinema.
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Jeb | 98 93% |
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Requiem for a Dream is just such a realistic film. The pain, torment and infliction the cast has to go through feels so frightening and real. The effects of drugs are also distinctively shown and told, from the modern abuse segments to the road of addiction. A very intense, raw, devastating and harrowing experience. You feel depressed all the way through, a feeling very few films can due and evoke these days. From several standpoints this is a classic.
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Potzblitz | 75 25% |
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Highly overrated in my opinion. The characters are way too transparent and one-dimensional for me to care about them, with the exception of the mother. The acting isn't always good. And although I'm usually a sucker for interesting visuals, many of the things Aronofsky used in "Requiem" just felt gimmicky to me.
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purgatos | 59 29% |
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Very bad things happen to these characters, too bad the movie never makes me care about them.
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Okkervil | 90 96% |
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A harrowing and disorientating movie. 'Requiem for a Dream' is a brilliantly performed and written account of the perils of drug and substance abuse. Aronofsky uses some wonderful yet dark imagery to show the euphoria, delusion and then the pain, anguish and vexation of these characters. An often brutal, but still a moving and sad piece of filmmaking. Superb.
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mattburgess | 72 67% |
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Since I adore anti-drug/alcohol advertisements for their blatant manipulation, hysterical heavy handedness and eagerness to wallow in the very filth they condemn, this was like a dream come true for me. An exquisitely filmed after school special. ASS TO ASS! ASS TO ASS!
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| 4 | boredoms | 37 11% |
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It's like Nancy Reagan teamed up with some film school geek intent on showing off all his little camera tricks to the audience. Awful.
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JSchlansky | 100 99% |
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A flawless film. The dark cynical tone may turn some viewers off, but it is impossible to deny that the film accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do. A masterpiece.
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SpiderCrusoe | 45 25% |
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It didn't deal with the subject matter very well. The characters weren't worth crying over.
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Hawkins | 68 40% |
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Outlandish and nauseating, stylistically cool but substantially lacking (what is the point of Marlon Wayans' character?). Ellen Burstyn's physical performance really carries the film. The overzealous anti-drug message is complimented by the implication that the missing father figure was the catalyst for all this dysfunction - if only there were some clear-headed Ward Cleaver type in the picture this nuclear family would be on the up-and-up!
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wayofthegun | 100 97% |
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Amazing visuals and acting. How in the hell did Julia Roberts beat out Ellen Burstyn?
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Zozan | 96 99% |
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Couldnt pull myself together for a while after seeing this movie. Now a couple of years has passed and I want to watch this movie once more but I can't. Simly I am afraid to.
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| 3 | Revolutiono | 5 19% |
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What's the point? We watch these peoples' tragedy, but the plot fails to live up to its own promises. Aside from the fact that the story gets absurd (old lady on uppers hallucinating that her fridge wants to eat her? that's just funny and actually drains the power of the other characters' stories), the use of the seasons to divide the film leaves me asking, "Where's spring?" I don't need a happy ending, but I can't shake the feeling that the story is incomplete. It's a noble failure, tho.
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djemba | 94 98% |
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Just listen. Note 100 is reserved for music. heavenly saundtrack Clint Mansell.
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Magb | 60 23% |
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It gives new meaning to the word "manipulative," but it does have some emotional resonance.
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NathanDarko | 98 98% |
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Never felt so bad after a Movie. Some "facts" aren't right, but that's not important because it shows what drugs CAN do to your life and what might be the result after consuming ever and ever again.It also shows alternativ "addicitions" in everyday life, to be addicted to the Media for example. Aronofsky is working with hard cuts and multiple zooms, after that movie I needed some time to come down. Higly recommendable.
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dst7175 | 96 99% |
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VERY POWERFUL MOVIE ABOUT THE NIGHTMARE OF ADDICTION. GREAT ACTING AND POWERFUL WRITTNG BY ARONOFSKY AND SELBY JR..
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| 3 | bharath | 85 97% |
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A movie that you dont want to watch to feel good. Its very blunt movie which shows the characters going through torture for the choices they have made by mixing with drugs. Its a brutally honest movie that seems so real.
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muutanet | 92 97% |
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This is not a visit to the dentist. Nor it is the first junky flick. Excellent directing and acting, and I do love the editing and sound world a lot. Ellen Burstyn's part is also a fresh point for the genre. Keep yourself clean and do remember to floss and you'll be fine. But beware your fridge.
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pewbeng | 87 84% |
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Fucked me up. Well done.
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febraro | 75 45% |
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Fascinated me on the first viewing, but it has been only downhill from there on, its morality and manipulation becoming more evident to me. I still think it's a nice film, though.
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Beer94 | 81 92% |
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Great cinematography, powerful imagery and a no doubt fitting soundtrack. A truly great cinematic experience.
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understamp | 30 23% |
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manipulative shit
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Nathan S | 2 21% |
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Melodramatic and manipulative, with no real shade or subtlety in its psychological portraits. It is grandiose where it maybe should be intimate, employing a bombastic string section and sensory-flood editing to project the illusion of substance, but the effect is sledgehammer morality.
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| 2 | hellopeople | 50 26% |
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To Sad to enjoy.
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| 2 | MBBinger | 86 87% |
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86
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cclxndr | 95 95% |
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This entire film, every well thought-out aspect of it, bleeds hopelessness of lives lost to addiction and the dead-end dreams that exude from it. Throughout the film, I was pleading for some kind of redemption or for someone to come out as a winner, but Aronofsky knows that wouldn't had been realistic. A film very hard to endure, and may hit close to home for many.
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NeuroticErot | 60 23% |
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Says everything in the first thirty minutes.
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hellboy76 | 85 96% |
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Should be required viewing for all middle schoolers. I cannot think of a better anti-drug endorsement. A great peek into what was coming from Aronofsky. Also anyone who thinks this actually can't happen, hasn't been a hardcore drug user. Living in the land of meth this happens daily (albeit not nearly as artistically).
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antitype | 65 42% |
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A movie about addiction and lonely desperation. On the one hand, it takes unrealistically exploitative manipulation, insulting morality, and pathos louder than the weeping of angels to levels never before seen. Especially that absurdly bombastic soundtrack, which could make taking a shit seem epic and heartbreaking. On the other hand, bearing in mind the utter lack of subtlety, there is actually an aesthetic at work here, visually echoing Lynch and Kubrick with music video style editing.
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| 2 | oaic | 0 3% |
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The most overblown after-school special ever made.
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| 2 | Jherman89 | 83 80% |
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Dark and disturbing, but plenty overrated.
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TheRealJ-Ro | 85 84% |
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Provided one of the best one-liners of my late teenage years -- "Ass to ass, ass to ass!" -- but besides that, is a really strong flick with important messages for those who want to look for them.
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Luna6ix | 86 92% |
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Has value even beyond the obvious addiction story. A fantastic story, based off a terrible book. It's only failure is that it's nearly impossible to sympathize with the characters as they really feel no remose for their actions.
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tinychris | 17 96% |
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This is the kind of shit that shakes me to my core. Also this is my favorite Ellen Burstyn.
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Onac | 82 87% |
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This is the single most depressing movie I have ever seen and I have been doing Dostoevsky before. Something that all characters had in common is that none of them had a strong person next to them who they could count on to help them and for me this was the greatest message in the movie. If you are reading this, please look around, and help someone have a bit better life. Talk to people who need it, so more of us can avoid the abyss.
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Frosty | 60 41% |
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At first you think it's awesome. But give it time and you realise there isn't much here thats tangible. The characters despite being well acted are hollow; the morality is condescending and the plot barely moves. It's just a montage of bad things happening to people - which would be fine if it weren't for the pretensions of something greater.
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| 1 | Launch | 92 95% |
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Aronofsky is a damn good director and he proves it with this movie. Ellen Burstyn had one of the best female performances of the 00's and the rest of the cast doesn't disappoint either. The score is perfect and it's brutal reality is sure to leave an impression on you.
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lex | 80 53% |
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A powerful, yet flawed film that will violate your safe zone. Depends a bit too much on initial shock value (which I realized after a second viewing) but is still a haunting, disorienting experience by a specialist in those two very things. The major highlights lie in Ellen Burstyn's scenes and the score.
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TheSmur | 98 64% |
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brb killing self
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vishal8492 | 90 98% |
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It's not a movie, it's a poetry. Frightening, melancholy frames! Each placed like beautiful prose, which, when shook comes before you as a monster; which was hiding between those lines. Everything which was so simple, beautiful suddenly becomes this complex, hideous and incomprehensible fable of self mutating text, you start losing ultimate connect to reality.
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| 1 | ibad91 | 70 17% |
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Well made but such an over the top attempt at being emotionally manipulative with the worst possible case scenarios at the end (crazy grandma, one arm, ass2ass) that by the end the exploitation was just more comical to me than it was emotionally affecting. But Ellen Burstyn's performance did manage to get to me, though, and was a heart shattering portaryal. But I'm sensitive to old people. That's the only reason this score is so high.
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mfidler1 | 85 86% |
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Quite possibly the hardest movie to watch ever. Even moments which look happy on the screen are made scary and intense by the gut wrenching film work and music used in Requiem. Though this movie is great I do not think it is physically possible for me to watch it again.
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oldgoat | 95 99% |
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Very powerful film, but also shot and executed beautifully.
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brandt64 | 90 86% |
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Aronofsky knows how to direct. I don't see how you could finish this film without it creating a lasting impression.
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| 1 | rude | 80 69% |
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Aronofsky's movie illuminates an issue which any person with an I.Q. bigger than her shoe size already knows.
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TheEscapist | 75 77% |
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Unique style. Great acting by Ellen Burstyn, her character and performance were probably what I liked best about this film and connected to me the most on an emotional level. The rest of the characters I thought were less interesting. They make bad choices which puts them in bad situations, I never really connected with them for that reason. Clint Mansell's score for this film is very well known and it's easy to see why. All in all this film is worth seeing once but I won't be watching it again.
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Judge Holden | 1 4% |
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Putting aside everything that's wrong with the movie itself (and it's debatable whether there's enough room to do that), I don't think I'll ever forgive it for indirectly subjecting the world to millions of youtube videos with its theme song as the background music.
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Vauth | 88 80% |
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Darren's Aronofsky's camera work and editing here is fantastic and can really create the harshness and claustrophobic sensations when the situation demands for. Some might not like the in-your-face presentation though but I think this is exactly what makes this film affecting. Can be a little tough to watch as its depressing and just gets worse until its devastating conclusion. I like this film. But I wouldn't watch it again for a long time to come because its just too sad.
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nevejas | 71 60% |
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It feels that Requiem has a linear dependence on age. The younger you are, the more impressive it is. I remember watching this at the age of 18 and the effect final scenes with the music had on me. All I see now is lack of any psychological depth to the physical actions. The constant drugs are bad, drugs drugs are bad (insert the beat here) agenda is superficial. Burstyn's acting and character is strongest by far, music is amazing, scenes and colours are beautiful - substance... what substance?
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| 1 | CMF | 98 97% |
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Incredible film about drug influence, family, friendship and the way society tries to manipulate us.
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AndreasThau | 75 68% |
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This is one of a kind. It is a thoroughly constructed, experimentally edited artfilm, where Todd Solondz meets Christiane F. And it works pretty god damn well.
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Yoshinaruto | 80 90% |
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Burstyn is fantastic here, and while many say the film as a whole is unrealistic, her character’s storyline is actually quite common. It does take a bit to get moving, and developing the characters more prior to their addiction would’ve helped the audience connect more. Overall, definitely worth seeing, but unlikely to be good for rewatches.
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| 1 | kaplan | 0 0% |
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the worst film ever made.
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afx237vi | 70 69% |
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Frenetically edited, frantically paced and almost jumping with energy, this film offers a chilling insight into the compulsions and neuroses that accompany addiction. However, it's anti-drug viewpoint is decidedly one-dimensional and it's moral message is somewhat heavy-handed. The final 15 minutes were so absurdly bleak and nightmarish it almost started to become comical. Very entertaining, though.
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d_drudges | 20 17% |
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Bizarre. Roleplaying his maniacal god from the Dark Ages, Darren Aronofsky punishes everyone who uses drugs or medicine of any kind, without bothering to justify why. Vile.
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kgbelliveau | 97 95% |
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Aronofsky creates a film with shots that help portray the suffocation of his characters. These characters are spiraling out of control. Some of the best acting I have ever seen, and this movie at times is so real and so visually disturbing that it is hard to sit through. These characters are part of a world no one wants to be a part of, and Aronofsky's vision makes this world come alive, making this film one of the most realistic films about drug addiction ever written and directed.
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| 1 | Crusx | 94 72% |
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Ass to ass.
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Vdecraim | 95 99% |
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One of my all-time favorites. A stomach-knotting psychological shocker concerning the tragic derailing of its multiple characters, culminating in one of the greatest cinematic experiences of my life. This film is one of the reasons I wanted to make them myself.
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rihrey | 65 85% |
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Ellen Burstyn elevates this film so much.
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FrederikA | 35 12% |
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"Don't do drugs!" shouted in your ears for two hours, while someone holds a strobe-light in your face... Not my cup of tortur...
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koiras | 60 65% |
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I like Aronofsky's direction much; but the thing I bear least with, is spitting your idea on audience's face.
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| 1 | MenialRetcon | 80 79% |
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Great movie - I never want to see it again.
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mwgerb | 85 97% |
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Absolutely awe-inspiring film, which is aided by Aronofsky's unique direction, Clint Mansell's brilliant score, and Ellen Burstyn's fantastic performance. It would be a complete masterpiece, but I find it hard to believe four interconnected people go through a drug-related rise and fall synchronized to the seasons. However, the sacrifice of some realism helps provide a truly overwhelming climax.
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| 1 | unmeshd | 85 81% |
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A haunting, terrifying movie that I never want to watch again.
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| 1 | Rachelmovies | 96 98% |
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Almost everything about the film is perfect. The cinematography, soundtrack, and set design make the viewer feel as though he or she is trapped and suffocating in the world of the film. It is a film that sticks in your mind long after viewing it. One of the best dramatic films I've ever seen.
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Bown | 73 32% |
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One of those movies that needs to be seen by everyone, but can sometimes feel gimmicky, with way too much unintentional comedy. Still, some very powerful scenes.
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Nroo | 58 24% |
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Score is for Clint Mansell.
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| 1 | redmachined | 75 59% |
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A very good tale, although the reality of the movie smashes you in the brain again and again and again. First movie I ever saw that made me want to die a little bit.
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| 1 | sifter132 | 62 16% |
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My brain appreciated the direction and editing here with all the quick cuts, close ups, time lapse etc, but my stomach didn't. Acting is good here, but apart from the slick direction I didn't see the massive appeal of the movie.
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gogokain | 60 60% |
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While I can really appreciate how well this was directed and shot, I found myself unable to relate with any of the characters, and that made watching it a real chore.
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| 1 | absentis | 90 94% |
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Film tha really does grab you by the balls and shocks you into silence... find a kitten/puppy to hug after watching this film.
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nilkynarfy | 50 34% |
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Nice to look at, but as phony and alarmist as pretty much every other drug movie.
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TedDedon | 90 86% |
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Requiem for a Dream is the kind of intense emotional fare that keeps you engaged from start to finish. From a visual standpoint this is one of the most impressive, creative films I've ever seen in my life. The only flaw is the overacting of the main character and that often times takes you out of the film all together and puts you in a place that makes you feel disconnected in this otherwise incredible film.
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Difontaine | 60 31% |
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Relentlessly odd.
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| 1 | stlunatix202 | 86 48% |
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a little bit too much for me but a look into the lives of others makes you think...
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| 1 | fatbuddha | 97 97% |
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I TOTALLY thought I'd NEVER do drugs after seeing this movie. Well. So much for that! But it's still one of the most disturbing, life-changing movies I've ever seen, right up there with Babe 2, but actually a good movie.
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| 1 | JohnLocke | 96 86% |
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The music. The images. The performances. This movie is utterly haunting. Some of the best editing out there.
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| 1 | killgreedy | 94 96% |
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only movie that has ever made me cry
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| 1 | Chuchaqui | 93 81% |
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Shocking and disturbing but painfully true. Aronofsky's visual talent is amazing, this movie is an original experience.
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Alex Watkins | 0 3% |
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Woof. A headache-inducing whirlwind of audiovisual gimmicks haphazardly employed in place of actually writing compelling, three-dimensional characters about whom we might know anything besides the fact that they're all hardcore junkies. It's like a bad modern parody of Reefer Madness. The climax made me laugh my ass off, though ("CUM! CUM! CUM!"). Fuck this movie, just go watch the music video for Tove Lo's "Stay High."
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DougKnows | 95 89% |
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Beautifully horrific. This is one of those movies about addiction that is so honest that you almost get sick by the end of the movie. Nothing is better than a movie that actually effects your emotions, and this movie does it without remorse. This is also important for younger viewers who are entering that age of intrigue. Great performances, masterful direction, this is an example of what movie making is about.
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brando814 | 66 42% |
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There are some good performances and it is well made but aside from fancy editing and bad decisions on behalf of its characters it lacks the punch people have bestowed upon it.
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Ytadel | 7 83% |
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I'm probably underrating it a bit, but that's only because it made me want to blow my brains out
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| 1 | AeroZeppelin | 93 83% |
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A film with a serious message. Film is presented in an artistic way, using alot of interesting camera perspectives. Must see.
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| 1 | lifeandall | 100 97% |
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Creative editing, powerful message, and superb acting make this one of the most powerful movies around.
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djross | 60 61% |
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Ambitious attempt at a nightmarish and expressionistic depiction of the altered states of addiction, and to a certain (perhaps limited) extent a critique of an addictogenic society. Helped by a catchy score; hindered by insufficiently interesting characterization and highly melodramatic plot elements. Borrows significantly from other movies (e.g., camera techniques are taken from Frankenheimer's masterpiece, SECONDS).
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MadMan | 100 97% |
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A terrifying and powerful tragic look at drug abuse.
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| 1 | Kerrek | 68 43% |
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A snuff film for anti-drug busybodies.
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grimace98 | 20 8% |
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Drugs are bad, mmkay. You shouldn't do drugs.
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| 1 | whomperize | 84 89% |
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The directing is brutally good, and the way everything comes together is fantastic. Another beautiful Aronofsky movie, if you want to call it that.
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| 1 | spoonerspot | 85 88% |
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Excellent portrayal of heroin addiction. When you give up a hot girlfriend like Jennifer Connelly for drugs you have serious problems.
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cmull | 88 83% |
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Graphic, unforgettable, and at times, nearly unwatchable. Love it or hate it, this film makes an impact.
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Tripwyre | 89 90% |
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Haunting and painful, Aronofsky's cautionary meditation on drugs is as bleak a picture as you may ever watch. It's exceptionally well-edited, and every member of the cast turns in great work -- surprisingly, even Wayans. It's a great film, yes, but it's also one of those rare movies that's so depressing that you might never want to watch it again. It successfully does for drugs what Leaving Las Vegas did for alcoholism. It's emotionally devastating stuff.
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amerigo | 96 99% |
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It's really just a film that targets the viewer's emotions. However, it succeeds so spectacularly that it hardly needs anything else.
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WWallce4prez | 70 46% |
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A truly visceral experience. Not only can you see and hear Requiem (the sound editing is exquisite), but the viewer can really feel this film. The chaotic and troubled lives of these characters come alive on the screen, whether you want to see them or not. Midway through to the brilliantly edited climax is the definition of a downward spiral.
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| 1 | LynchMidget | 10 6% |
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Skip this. Just skip it. It is horrendously overrated. It's like the film is on a loop of the same 20 minutes and then it brings all these characters down that you hate and wants you to feel sorry for them even though they are fully to blame on their own. Self destruction is something I will never pity when portrayed in cinema.
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eric-jan | 95 99% |
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Horrific movie. Can never get myself to watch it a second time.. Pure brilliance though oddly enough
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RealMacgyver | 70 52% |
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The film puts a twist on the normal horrors of drugs tale by highlighting prescription drugs in one of its stories, and is harrowing but I found it overly stylised. Almost every shot is strange or quirky and I felt that this meant the stuff that should have been highlighted using that kind of technique wasn't.
I still think Less Than Zero is the definitive "don't do H" film, but there's nothing wrong with this one.
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HyphenateMe | 80 85% |
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Someone made me watch this movie 3 times one day and I didn't mind, so I guess that is a good sign. This is also the only movie (ever) where a Wayans brother wasn't terrible.
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| 1 | arlinladue | 97 88% |
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Best cinematography I've ever seen, sustained over the entire movie.
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drawkward86 | 82 60% |
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Aronofsky has an innate, uncanny ability to take subjects we think of as distant and make them happen TO us; his films are totally subjective experiences. This is in many ways his ballsiest film, even if his sometimes self-consciously virtuosic arsenal of tactics has refined itself a little in the last decade. Even more than Black Swan, Requiem makes me feel oddly off-kilter, probably because Aronofsky uses everything in his now-famous bag of tricks to make me feel that way.
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Meaurel | 10 6% |
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Bored me to death
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somnivore | 82 44% |
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Disturbing. Some parts are excessively incredible (not credible). Amazing soundtrack.
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mentol | 4 4% |
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Overrated
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tathiel | 87 90% |
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Ellen Burstyn's performance was remarkable.
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| 1 | Pieridae | 90 85% |
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If this film doesn't make you think twice about taking drugs, nothing will. The stunning portrayal of young lives obliterated, artfully done with strong acting. This is a dark movie, but it is worth watching.
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rob oh! | 99 96% |
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This is one of the hardest, edgiest, most tragic movies ever made. Some people would ask "why would you watch it, then?" and I would answer "because you should." Why? First, it'll put you off injectible drugs for life. Second, because it looks at the grim realities of what damage a junkie, carried to the extreme, can bring about. Finally, Director Darren Aronofsky fills this movie with so many elaborate visual elements and camera effects that you actually feel like you're on drugs.
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Shmendrek | 4 83% |
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Horribly, horribly overrated, but that didn't stop me from becoming utterly engrossed in the story and the characters. A real tearjerker. Screenings of this film should replace the entire fucking D.A.R.E. program.
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Vandelay1 | 84 93% |
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Great
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miss jesus | 16 2% |
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An incredibly dumb and ham-handed story for all its slick styling. About as deep and fascinating as Mr. Mackey on South Park: "Drugs are bad, mmkay?" For a while I thought, okay, Aronofsky has flipped it and this is some sly revisitation of classic drugsploitation fims. Nope. Just pointless, and laughably over-the-top with its relentless bleakness. There are so many aspects to drug culture, addiction, and the unwinnable "war" and this film has nothing substantial to say about any of them.
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skiewulfy | 35 20% |
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Sour, depressing and humorless, Requiem for a Dream takes such a pessimistic perspective on drug abuse that its impossible too feel emotionally invested in any of the characters, since their dire outcomes are far too easy to predict. This might work as a cautionary tale, but has too little entertainment value to be worth a viewing for the curious. I can appreciate dark films and tragedies, but Requiem goes beyond that seeming almost more like a romance of nihilism and degradation.
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Wiche | 95 99% |
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Gives you something to think about, really gave me something to think about. A dark and deep film, with a disturbing message in it, provided to us with a piece of the best camerawork I've ever seen(great to see all the angles and different viewpoints they used) and a soundtrack I already know will be in my head for a couple of days. Great acting, great movie. This is a film I won't forget soon..
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| 1 | Billian | 75 42% |
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One of the most memorable scores I can remember, but I wasn't very keen on the pacing, acting, or script. Resides in mediocrity.
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chadisdanger | 85 83% |
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I admit that it's over-the-top, the style is undisciplined, the performances (Burstyn's heartbreaking work aside) and writing can be awkward and the portrayal of the horror of drugs seems blunt. But Aronofsky here is clearly a young director bursting with ideas (he has a real "try anything" approach), and I believe that this should be seen more as a nightmarish yet sad trip about failure and loss than some sort of anti-drug parable. A polarizing and flawed film, but I maintain that it has merit.
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KasperL | 90 97% |
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The breakdown of Ellen Burstyn's character in Darren Aronofsky's energetic sophomore effort is emotional and very shocking. It's one of the great performances. By the way, try to remember not to do drugs and/or go to weird sex parties because you'll probably (*huge spoilers afoot*) lose your arm and/or go ass to ass.
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nandorizzi | 90 94% |
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Honest and intense. Enter in the mind of people who use drugs and perfectly describes your feelings, anxieties and desires.
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SicilianClan | 85 80% |
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un hijo y su madre.. dos historias que las une la adiccion.... heroina, mariguana, metanfetaminas... todo un viaje sicotropicos con todo y sus consecuencias
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dsaos | 73 32% |
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For better or worse, this movie was hugely innovative and captured the attention of swaths of highschoolers and college-aged kids alike. Myself included. The "worse" part of that is that Arnofsky beats you on the head so thoroughly you want to puke your guts out by the end.
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Barnowl | 93 65% |
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I have fond memories from this movie.
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