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Director: Darren Aronofsky
Year: 2000 Country: U.S. Genre: Drama Score: 10/10
Cast: Jared Leto , Jennifer Connelly, Ellen Burstyn, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald, Louise Lasser, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Janet Sarno, Suzanne Shepherd, Dylan Baker

contrast with secluded beaches and worn brick apartment on Coney Island, Requiem for a Dream "tells parallel stories that end paths linked by the relationship between lonely widow Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) and her sweet but clueless son Harry (Jared Leto). The thick Sara, stimulated by the possibility of appearing in a television contest, has begun a dangerous weight-loss diet to appear more beautiful in public. Meanwhile, Harry and his new girlfriend, Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly), have slowly begun to sincere his love each other, using each other to redeem years of isolation and pain. After Harry and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) was launched successfully as drug dealers, the three men begin to believe themselves invincible, not knowing that a cruel fate in store. Second great work of ingenious Darren Aronofsky, the film is loaded an enormous visual power and originality in assembling prodigious. It is a heartbreaking story of the havoc it can get addiction and greed in the soul and body of people. Throughout the film Aronofsky subtly guides us towards a final climax that ends in a whirlwind of harrowing images that show the height of human degradation. The film is a parable of the happiness found in a glorious moment and lost in another tragic.

Based on the novel by Hubert Selby, the film presents a vision strikingly crude and probably part of the use and abuse of drugs. To achieve such mandate, the American director and remarkable jonven not skimp on the pain and trauma that will be involved with their protagonists. Aronofsky presents the life and history of four individuals, three of them with equivalent features and a totally dissimilar. Everyone has ambitions and aspirations but the way through which they want to obtain is heterodox, simplistic and crude. However, despite the banality surrounding his existence, is relatively easy to identify with them because basically they are gentle. At the end of the film the circumstances force them to abandon such an epithet for the black spiral which are drawn deeply change its nature makes little maliciously. Perspective which is armed with the tape suggests that the construction of personal dreams on crooked foundations is not an accurate picture, and specifically link the future consumption and resale of drugs seems to be a suicide. The main idea can be summarized in a message about the consequences that will inevitably attract the acts committed, whether for better or for worse. The end justifies the means and that is too light, sometimes the low road is the most catastrophic.

why Aronofsky's film is eventually attacked. Her moral vision on the use of drugs is not well seen by everyone, it seems that filmmakers makers try to scare the viewer by showing the worst-case scenario. As in his directorial debut, "Pi " (1998), there are recurring images throughout the film, plus, music plays an important role in emphasizing the emotions of paranoia in the viewer and the conditional expectations about what will happen in the plot. Sometimes playing with landscapes full of calm when the round is a commotion, also uses photography to engage the viewer in psychological or physiological processes that live performers. The theme, as seen, is nothing new, the objective approach, whereby only are the facts, it is not unusual. But the brutal intensity of the tape and how visual and auditory generating portrays addiction compulsion is really innovative. Darren Aronofsky, surprised to introduce the large number of technical tools to show the vulnerable characters in their worst moments, but never let the media or the style took precedence over the emotions generated by the story. Aronofsky knows that the success of the film lies in the resonance that the experiences of the players have with the audience, and it has recruited an excellent ensemble of actors and actresses.

Jared Leto as Harry shows intelligence necessary to get into trouble, but not to leave them. His optimism in the face of tragedy is very touching. Marlon Wayans as Tyrone's friend Harry, is a revelation, leaving his career as a comic actor, turns out to be a very competent actor in the drama. But it definitely takes the cake is Ellen Burstyn. The decline in her character is horribly realistic and always convincing. This is an extraordinary job, and that the Academy has awarded the Oscar for Julia Roberts for his clumsy performance in "Erin Brockovick" (2000) rather than Burstyn (who was also nominated that year) represents an insult to the actress and another example of the ridiculous criteria that shape these prestigious awards. The strength literary history allows Aronofsky dive into the depths of addiction, the real theme of the film. Requiem for a Dream "shelled the reasons for this tortuous issue through a mother and son as they watch the placid beaches and solitary walks in Coney Island become a hell for them. Probably the secret of the film, besides its particular narrative style, is the way to empathize with the audience. Any of us for our dreams we can make mistakes and take the path inadequate, a road that hooked us into believing that we will reach our goal.

"Requiem for a Dream." Revised (for the fifth, and last time, I hope) I have to admit, without equivocation, the genius of this filmmaker. I have no choice. Genius because, having built a remarkable atmosphere of sleaze that (responsibility of the operator Matthew Libatique and production designer James Chinlund), a murky emotional depth and so huge, Aronofsky, with his genius, able to turn the story into a story moralist, in a dirty fairy tale, which perhaps is the most moralistic tale about drugs ever filmed. Genius also, of course, by so directing epidermal to the beautiful and excellent actress Jennifer Connelly. Actress who had already offered naked, very elegant indeed, in several films, and he finally naked in unspeakable ugliness, and subjecting the martyrdom of a gay sex show, a scene really loud and raw that ends " vomiting "to the camera (literally ...). Surely, we must thank Aronofsky having put so much effort into it. But there is a good collection of images "vomit" in this film, which certified genius and extreme sensitivity of this artist, because only deepen the mood of his characters, try to massacre it, sparing no physical destruction of its characters, with great detail, so that we disgusted (but happy for his genius visual) home.

Darren Aronofsky deposited the full weight of the narrative in a parallel montage vibrant and daring film resources (split screen, rhythm disturbances in the same plane ...) that work perfectly for illustrate the descent into hell, no escape, a group of characters without a will and a paradigm for our times. The director ends his book with a hard punch, a hook to the chin of the viewer, who becomes overwhelming in ten minutes, cleverly softened by string music by Kronos Quartet, which acts as a perfect counterpoint to the technological work of Clint Mansell for the rest of the film. Without concessions, Aronofsky presents the message of "no exit" to its logical conclusion and get a sordid and difficult work, but highly recommended digestion. In view of these credentials can be eagerly waiting your next job. Both stylistic and visual appearance as for his performances, it is imperative to see "Requiem for a Dream." With his second book, Aronofsky shows that the success of "Pi" was no fluke, but the result of the vision of one of the most promising talents of contemporary cinema. As I said, this movie is pretty tough, but indispensable for the true fan of avant-garde cinema, what else I can say about a film that surpasses the human to become self-prisoners with their heads trying to dementia completing the vicious circle slowly just our souls.

"When our dreams become nightmares"