Six Minute Short Film Squeezed into 98 minutes

Rating: 3/10 (27 November 2006)

Had this film been edited down to six to twelve minutes, I would have lauded it as one of the most brilliant shorts I'd ever seen. There simply is no story. I think Aronovsky is a brilliant thinker and shows great promise as a film maker, but this film is lost. I found it indulgent, narcissistic, intentionally vague (always a hallmark of missing story) and utterly pretentious. I have a sneaking suspicion that the entire concept of this film hangs on a somewhat arcane quote from Stanley Kubrick, that death is a disease and we will one day find the cure. I hope the next film that Aronovsky makes takes into consideration that the Audience is a critical piece of the equation in Cinema.