Beautiul and Unforgettable

Rating: 10/10 (17 February 2011)

This is one of the rare movies that deeply impact you after viewing it. The last 20 minutes of the film are incredibly intense and disturbing, and unites the entire film in a beautiful-yet-horrific sort of way. What's more impressive is that this is achieved without mere gratuitous violence or shock-and-awe footage. This is Aronofky's greatest ability - to extract such strong emotion from the viewer, and what ultimately separates 'Requiem' from other movies with similarly strong subject matter; the simple use of strong images isn't sufficient to move the viewer, but needs to be part of a greater vision, something that this film recognizes and delivers in an unforgettable fashion. A decade later, this film still manages to profoundly affect me. 9/10.