Requiem for a Dream is a disturbing look into the world of addiction. From heroin to diet pills to television, Darren Aronovsky’s follow up to his break-out success Pi portrays hopeful people plummeting into physical and emotional depravity. The film follows a family of sorts: a mother (Ellen Burstyn) who spends her time watching T.V. and becomes hooked to diet pills and speed in hopes of looking good when she appears on her favorite show; her biological son and heroin addict, who steals her prized television to score a fix (Jared Leto), and his girlfriend (Jennifer Connelly) and best friend (Marlon Wayans), both addicts. The film’s score is brilliant and instantly recognizable to anybody who has seen any number of trailers in the past decade. Aronofsky’s use of fast-cutting and what he calls hip-hop montages make for a fast and confused movie, as if he’d injected all 35mm with a cocktail of drugs himself.
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