For God's sake get over it, take it off the top 250!

Rating: 1/10 (15 April 2007)

ARRGGHHTHAPHSSDJKMPH. It's all I can say. I rate pictures by directors who think they can speak for people they clearly know nothing about much further down the scale than someone that might humbly try in earnest to tackle something more subtle and fail. Films like 'Crash', 'Fight Club', 'Traffic', 'Babel', 'Hotel Rwanda' all have that in common. I can see through the sleek, transparent surface right through to the disingenuous, morally righteous and self-espousing garbage at it's core. The film tells many stories, with one message: Drugs are bad. Stay away. Bad. All it does is serve as a reminder just how Harvard educated Darren Aronofsky is and how little he knows about the real world and / or drug abuse to craft this fantasy and pass it off as an educational lesson. The film is powdered donut disguised as art. It is a void. There is nothing. Nada at it's center. Just a man, the director, using cinema (the ultimate weapon) as a mouthpiece for a sheltered and one dimensional world view. Having rested on his laurels for years after making this film, grinning with pride at his achievement.. I wonder whether.. he ever.. thinks.. about.. what it is.. he... actually.. made... The characters are non existent, except as purely functional devices to propel Aronofsky's 'cool' vision to his target audience, and boy did it hit the target audience all right, this film was lapped up by every film major east and west, degrading a generation of potential artists into thinking this was how it was done. Sad, sad, sad, sad, and not in the way the director intended..