Amazing movie...

Rating: 9/10 (20 February 2005)

How do I begin? 4 drug addicts are in desperate need for drugs.Harry(Jared Leto),Marion (Jennifer Connelly) and Tyrone(Marlon Wayans) have no drugs left.So Harry and Tyrone decide to make a trip to another city and buy heroin over there cause in their own town, there is no drugs left.Marion stays at home... Sara Goldfarb(Ellen Burstyn),Harry's mother, wants to look good for a TV-show where she is invited to.She wants to fit in an old dress of her again and decides to take pills to get skinny again.She takes way too much pills a day and she gets addicted to them...
OK,I already knew Darren Aronofsky was someone to follow close because his debut movie "Pi" was a very decent movie.But I never expected him to make an excellent movie like this one...Requiem is a very original movie because instead of getting better,everything just gets worse and worse.This is a very un-American movie cause you do not have to expect a happy ending.The story is subtle in its own way.Simple but oh so perfectly told. The performances are magnificent. (Keep your eyes wide open for Jared Leto!)And the depressing music is so fitting for all the scenes.The ending tune is just excellent.
Requiem is a simple story but the performances and the originality(the depressing tune of the movie, the sad ending) make this movie one of the best of 2000(only Memento is better I think).This is a movie that stays in your mind weeks after you've seen it... 3 stars and a half out of 4 = Watch it!