Got tricked...

Rating: 2/10 (26 August 2007)

For starters, i would like to point out that i don't write comments for movies too often. A movie will have to make a certain impression on me - positive or negative - to make me write one. Secondly, when i see a movie that i like or dislike, i always read the exact opposite comments in IMDb, to see the point of view of the people that think otherwise than me. In this particular movie, the opposite comments would be the ones that i'd agree with 6 years ago.
First time i saw Requiem For A Dream was back when it was released. I was blown away. Totally. I thought that this is what cinema MUST be. That was then...
I saw it again three hours ago. When it ended i caught myself being cold. Not by emotions, by the lack of them. I started thinking that something must be wrong - me or the movie. Obviously it must have been me, because it was the same movie that blown me away back then. So i thought to myself that i had to figure out what has changed since. The very first thing that came to mind was that i found out i didn't care about the characters. There was no depth in them. I couldn't relate to any of them. They were like comic characters. Flat. The only emotion they had was anticipation for the next time they would get a dose.
Was it possible that i had that kind of thoughts about the same movie i saw in 2001? No doubt about it. So, it must be me. I'm getting older and apparently the shock-after-shock theme in this movie isn't convincing for me anymore. And that's all there is to it about the plot. There isn't any. It's just that. Shock-after-shock. Mr. Aronofsky tried to shock his audience because he knew that. He made the film as much as depressing as he could, for the sole reason to bring tears to everyone, so nobody would pay attention to the non-existing script. It's true. THERE IS NO SCRIPT - NO PLOT. Nothing. He made a movie for junkies with nothing in it. Must find a dose and will do anything to get it? That is not a plot. That is absolute nothing. The side story of the mother is the reason for the 2 i'm giving it. Otherwise not even 1 would be enough.
Acting(fantastic job), directing(quite good, i admit), editing, scoring(brilliant music), producing, developing, even promoting. Almost everything was almost perfect. Only one key element was missing. Plot. And that's the single most important part of a movie.