Trendy garbage

Rating: 3/10 (24 January 2003)

If you've seen Rush (1991), Drugstore Cowboy and Trainspotting, you've seen it all, and better.
Requiem For A Dream is nothing else but fancy camera shots, superfluous abusive scenes destined to shock the audience (yawn...), and a vacuous storyline. I'm sure the teens love it.
*spoilers*
I found the mother to be the only interesting character of the entire film. Her dreams of fame and fortune seem unreachable, she's a widow, and thinks her prescribed drugs are harmless. She's misinformed and alone. It is just a very sad situation. In the meantime, the 3 brainless kids play wilfully with fire (and get burnt), fully informed of the danger, just trying to be smartasses. Too bad, they lose. Expectable. Good riddance. End credits.
This is basically a 2-hour anti-drug commercial. Period.
*end spoilers*
After "Pi" and then this, I sincerely hope Darren Aronofsky's next movie is not once again about the protagonist on drugs. It's already getting old.
If you feel the need to watch disturbing movies with content, I'd rather recommend "Seul Contre Tous (I Stand Alone)" and "Irreversible" by Gaspar Noe, "Repulsion" and "The Tenant" by Roman Polanski, "Possession" by Andrzej Zulawski, "Sombre" by Philippe Grandrieux, "Les Amants Criminels" by Francois Ozon, "Last House On The Left" by Wes Craven, "Tetsuo (The Ironman)" by Shinya Tsukamoto...
Good luck sitting through these !