Review of Requiem for a Dream (2000) by Emanuele B — 17 Sep 2016

Requiem for a Dream is maybe one of the most depressing and heart breaking movies in the history of cinema, featuring an old woman, who starts doing drugs to fight back her addiction to chocolate and sweets and attend her favorite TV show unsuccessfully, whose son is a junkie like his best friend and his girlfriend.

The movie is divided in three parts:

-SUMMER, where the characters are introduced, and where Aronofsky gives the audience hope about the future of them. The love between Harry and Marion is particularly exalted, like Sara's typical widow's way to live. All the main characters underestimate their addiction to drugs as they reach their top.

-FALL, where everything start crumbling. Drugs take control over everyone's life.

-WINTER, aka the saddest part of the movie. Not crying is a challenge at this point, as Arronofsky great technique to create a link to all the characters makes you feel like you are part of their lives.

The movie is not perfect at all, as it features a really poor character's design, an overall repetitive pacing before the latter part, a sometimes confusing photography, but has a strong and perfect soundtrack (one of the most famous in the world), a great plot and is just so entertaining, you sometimes forget to be seeing a DVD. With Trainspotting, this is the best "don't do drugs" movie ever, although I wouldn't recommend it to weak people as it may be one of the less enjoyable experience ever.