Intensely Emotional and Visually Compelling

Rating: 10/10 (13 December 2006)

If you've ever been deeply, truly in love, this movie should affect you in profound ways. I rarely cry during movies, and though I kept most of my tears back during this one, I bit my lower lip so hard while trying to keep the flood back that my lip nearly bled. As with Aronofsky's other films (Pi and Requiem for a Dream), the imagery is compelling, beautiful, and sucks you in completely. Warning, though: if you see this with your significant other, be prepared to have an important discussion afterwards about love, life, and death. Also, if you're looking for something that you don't have to think about, go elsewhere (I saw American Dreamz a few days before and felt my brain going into sleep mode during that pap.)