Requiem for a Dream

After seeing it a second time, I decided it's shit.

This movie is brilliant. Perfect score, amazingly edited, superb acting and seriously depressing.

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.

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.

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.