Intellectual tour de force

Rating: 10/10 (6 June 2005)

I really enjoyed the real intellect behind this film and coupled with the lo fidelity digital video it was shot on and the sound, music made this a truly great film experience. Even now seven years after first seeing it it really disturbs me and entertains me as does his brilliant follow up Requiem for a Dream. The thematic devices Aronofsky used, the stock market, Jewish mysticism, chaos theory, I thought all were tied together really well. The way he raises tension in this film and subsequently in Requiem got my blood pressure way up there like few other films ever have. I eagerly await his next project,"The Fountain" when ever it finally comes out after many rumors of difficulty.