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Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut)
from Artisan
starring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald
directed by Darren Aronofsky

Features:

• Anamorphic
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Unique Style. Graphic Reality. Good Movie.
  This is a really good movie. Ever since my first time seeing it two years ago, I wanted to buy it. It isn't for everybody but it is a classic. I like the way it uses the music in the movie and seems to have a good soundtrack. It uses different camera styles, repetitions, and strong emotional scenes to really make the audience feel way the characters feel. Yes, this is a serious movie even though Marlon Wayans is in it and he gives a good performance. For those who don't know, "requiem" is a song of mourning... more info

• Fantastic Journey
  One of Aronofsky's best movies and certainly a movie that should make its way into anybody's collection.

• "Drugs are bad, mmkay. You shouldn't do drugs, mmkay"
  There is a lot of aesthetically pleasing and artistic camera and story work in this movie, but ultimately it comes off as an R-rated after-school special.
  It's not a matter of not liking sad stories. There are plenty of tragic tales that peak everyone's interest (Shakespeare anybody?) but this one has such a blunt-force trauma aspect that it's difficult to take it seriously. It says, "here are some people who do drugs and every conceivable absolutely horrid thing that can happen to them amplified."more info

• Sorry, but this is not a good film
  This is one of the most overpraised, overrated films in existence. The director has a gimmicky, show-offy quality to his work- it's all style, little substance. And putting all of your characters through the wringer (in increasingly outrageous and unrealistically heinous ways) seems to me a cheap trick by a filmmaker to reel in emotion from the viewer. That's what Requiem feels like to me: just a calculated human sideshow of unnecessary pain and tortue to gawk at. There's no depth there. Now, usually... more info

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