I just bought it today...

Rating: 10/10 (24 August 2003)

And I am counting down the minutes until tomorrow, when I can get rid of it again.
I found Requiem For A Dream to be more like a documentary than a film, in the way of the lighting, the cuts, and the overall feel of it. The acting is superb, and cannot be faulted, particularly Ellen Burstyn's.

The reason I didn't like this film was because of the way the cuts were used. I can see why they were used in the way they were, but I felt that at times they got in the way a little bit, almost as if instead of more scenes the director just decided to fill up the time with lots of cutting of short scenes which seemed to be almost the same every time. Because of this, I felt it got boring.
Also I felt there was a slight lack of explaination in the film as to why the people got hooked on drugs in the first place, with the exception of Ellen Burstyn's character. I understand that in some films, explainations are not always necessary, but I feel that more explaination would have worked better in this film.
The plot itself isn't overly complex, but I felt some things were hard to follow, though this could just be that in some scenes the score was louder than the people talking. Because of this, some parts can be very boring, as the viewer does not know how that scene came about, or what the actors are saying in the scene.
Overall the film is well acted, but incredibly extremely boring. Watch it only to admire Ellen Burstyn and Jared Leto's acting abilities.

5/10