Requiem For A Dream
Despite their dreams of becoming great four addicts struggle to overcome their addiction only to fall deeper into it the more.
12 February 1972, Evanston, Illinois, USA
12 February 1969, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
24 June 1980, Brooklyn, New York, USA
23 July 1928, Brooklyn, New York, USA
February 20, 2014
As uncompromising a work of art as you can ever view.
May 14, 2011
Translating this into a music video would make a lot more sense than the film does in present form
May 08, 2001
[It] may be a bummer to some audiences, so harsh is its view of the drug culture. But no one interested in the power and magic of movies should miss it.
July 06, 2010
Unfortunately, about halfway through, the film takes a (deliberate) nosedive into the depths of human degradation from which it never emerges.
January 19, 2001
Conveys, visually, sonically and dramatically, the siren call of addiction like no other movie has.
June 24, 2006
Burnished camerawork and ex-Pop Will Eat Itself head Mansell's part-punchy, part-elegiac score reinforce and counterpoint the increasingly nightmarish visuals.
January 19, 2001
Both bleak and bleakly funny, appalling in its excesses and exhilarating in its execution.
January 19, 2001
If this is the future of cinema, I'd rather be home watching television.
July 18, 2011
Aronofsky's second feature is an emotionally intense, relentlessly grim tale of forms of addiction that may rely too much on montage to achieve real dramatic impact.
September 08, 2009
A gut-wrenching, formally adventurous masterpiece or an ugly, flashy piece of empty-headed propaganda?
September 20, 2011
A staccato narrative parallels the experiences and hallucinations of a woman on drugs with those of her son and his friends.
September 17, 2010
"Dream" glamorizes nothing en route to a near-nauseating finale, which feels like a rollercoaster car hitched off the track and hurtled into hell's depths. A decade later, it still follows through with full force on its cautionary stomach punch.
