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I just saw Requiem For A Dream and I have to say, I was blown away. Non since 1995's The Basketball Diaries, has a motion-picture show so accurately portrayed the craving and depravity of a person dealing with(or succumbing to) addiction. It is a beautifully articulated piece of artwork, intricately presented on a silvery platter. Director Darren Aronofsky shines in his brilliant direction and style, in this depiction of the downward spiral of the lives of iv people, living with their respective addictions.

Jared Leto, gives an splendid, solid performance every bit Harry Goldfarb, a homo living an inch from his life, e'er in search of a prepare. In an emotional powerhouse of a performance, he proves to audiences that he tin shine through in a major role equally opposed to previous smaller roles in Fight Guild and American Psycho. Nevertheless, it appears to be a Hollywood in-joke of sorts in that it seems he has a penchant for mutilation or at least the roles he seems to accept on seem to have for him. In Fight Club, he had his face rearranged and in American Psycho, his head cutting off. In Requiem however, it is the mutilation of his life, his whole graphic symbol, that takes centerstage, catastrophe in a satisfying climax of gargantuan proportions in which he gives the audience more than their money's worth in his power-packed functioning.

All the same, the real star of the film lies in the talent of Ellen Burstyn. Audiences will wonder at her appearance at the beginning of the film, not really knowing if it is, in fact, her. Her performance as a television, sugar and eventually, diet pill-fond mother of Harry shows that she'southward yet got it after all these years. If yous want to make a comparison of her role player skills throughout the years, watch the revived version of The Exorcist. She can but get improve. She takes on the role of Sarah Goldfarb with gusto, never backing down for a second. Totally throwing herself into the part, y'all tend to forget how she actually looks like, given only fleeting moments in the film which suggest her real appearance. I have to say, she's got guts. How many female actresses her age would dare to have a camera strapped to her person(as Aronofsky so creatively did), an inch away from her face with a wide angle lens? She definately deserves her Oscar nomination, if not, the Oscar itself, for her tour-de-forcefulness performance.

The other characters themselves agree their ain with the two abovementioned powerhouses. Jennifer Connelly and Marlon Wayans both realistically portray their corresponding roles equally Marion Silverish, Harry'south girlfriend and rebellious suburbanite chick, who degenerates to prostitution for her gear up and Tyrone C. Love, Harry's best friend and beau pusher. Hither, Wayans shows that he tin can lose his comic edge if needed, to portray a boy trapped in a man'due south trunk, merely yearning for his mother'due south blessing only seeking it instead, in drugs. Connelly besides, who has been taking on smaller roles and projects over the last few years, is finally given enough room to play with her character and gives a winning performance in Requiem.

The cinematography of Matthew Libatique gives total light on the chracterizations of the people in habiting Aronofsky's sick world, from the sliently flickering ill-green flourescents to the exaggerated wide angle shots and the beautifully sad and haunting Coney Island picturesque of the pier which suggests a certain beauty amidst all the sadness and depravity. A Downer Picturesque, as portrayed by the photographs of Robert Frank and the Frank influenced cinematography of Darius Khondji in Seven. In my books, Matthew Libatique has just joined those ranks.

Jay Rabinowitz' editing stands out every bit well, with in-your-face boom title cards(emphasising the down crash of the character'due south lives through the seasons), as well equally the close-up constructions of the drug taking process. The latter sequences, edited so tightly and seamlessly, make the moment and then beautiful merely so fleeting, as is the case with drugs. The sequences are well-nigh like a drug, making you lot crave for more than of them, a gear up which you go, whenever the characters become their own fix in the film. Lots of people might misinterpret this as glamourising the drug culture just these moments are then fleeting that they're over earlier y'all even know it, and then it's back to Harry, Marion, Sarah and Tyrone's sick and depraved search for the adjacent fix, which very accurately portrays the twisted quest of a true and sincere addiction.

The film is also superbly scored past Clint Mansell and hauntingly performed by the Kronos Quartet. A series of hauntingly shocking, yet mind-numbingly beautiful pieces which linger in your caput long subsequently you've left the cinema.

Lastly, the direction of Aronofsky, vivid, beautiful, empathic. In that location are not enough words to describe his direction or this film and I think the best manner to say it is that I am speechless. Aronofsky has shown me that, jaded past so many films, something can yet prompt me to sit up and accept detect. To see something that I have never seen before or larn something I don't already know. The ending, is sheer power. A masterpiece of all the elements of what filmmaking is about, mixed together in some sick souffle and thrown into your face, burning hot and scalding. The film leaves a deep impression, in fact, a huge scar. And it is a scar I am proud to wear.

• murkyfish
• Mar 29, 2001

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