REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000) - ♦♦♦♦♦

Directed by - Darren Aronofsky

Written by - Hubert Selby Jr., Darren Aronofsky

Starring - Ellen Burstyn, Jerad Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans

"Aronofsky juxtaposes the story of a mother and a son; the son lives life with a woman whom she loves, struggling with a heroin addiction and their interpretation of the American dream, while the mother has an addiction with television which drives her to diet pill dependence. His work is a meaty, stylish and painful vision of decadence. His compelling visual style is a breakthrough psychological depiction of soul corruption and depravity, which leads to a final half hour that is among the most harrowing in any film ever made. In fact, it may be the only cinematic fugue along with D.W. Griffith's Intolerance. Based on a Hubert Selby novel."

Drama, USA