The best film I ever seen. Period.

Rating: 10/10 (31 August 2005)

I had heard so many wonderful (and controversial) things about Darren Aronofsky's REQUEIM FOR A DREAM. How sexually explicit and graphic the drug use was in this film, how the MPAA would not release this with an R rating and all that nonsense. Unfortunately, I was overseas when this movie came out so I never got a chance to see it. Luckily, I recently rented it and was absolutely stunned. This is simply put the best film I have ever seen. I thought the acting was magnificent, the situations realistic, and it truly shows what happens when drug use takes over every aspect of your life. Having lost countless friends to drugs, I can truly appreciate the nature of what these characters had to go through and I am thankful that the director chose to shoot it realistically and not stylistically. I just wish they would show this movie in schools.