Brutal

Rating: 10/10 (21 May 2012)

I feel like I just got hit in the face with a shovel. What a masterpiece. There is no escape from it. A simple tale of spiraling addiction told with absolute devastating honesty. A warning to all human beings. The music reverberates with that Lux Aeterna strings riff that eventually feels like a terrible line of poetry as the story spirals down into a very dark place indeed. Aronofsky is one of the must interesting directors in the world today. He obviously cares only about making pieces of art and this time he has made one so dark and powerful that it should come with a warning label. I was expecting something along the lines of Drugstore cowboy - but this is much much more powerful stuff and much darker. Just wow.