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FOR A DREAM
With Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon
Wayans
Directed by Darren Aronofsky
Let's talk about pretense.
Let's talk about laboured. Let's talk about stealing so much from films like Snatch
and Trainspotting
and Fight Club that
your movie eventually looks like a filmschool end-of-first-year project. Even
the title is irritatingly pretentious. We've had enough drug movies thanks. People
are cool, they dabble in naughty chemicals and then they fuck out. We've seen
it all before, only this time it's a nonstop exercise in "what kind of trick can
we use next to make it look cool and appeal to the drugfucj\ks who's gonna whatch
this shit". Editing techniques are used ad nauseum and Jared
Leto is sometimes so bad I
wanted to cringe into a fucking raisin. Ellen
Burstyn's brilliant performance
as a diet pill junkie is the only saving grace in this 'so what?' movie. Maybe
if the whole thing played off in 'the dude who likes broads' apartment it could
have been entertaining! Undoubtedly we'll see more losers getting into shooting
junk after they saw this tripe, as was the case with Trainspotting.
If I want to see a junkie fuck out I'll just watch The
Wall again, it's got all the
same elements and more and at least it's got class!
2 / C
- Uncle
Vinnie ...the
2nd opinion... REQUIEM
FOR A DREAM
While some people have had enough of the "drugs screw you up"
theme, there are still so many tales to be told under this dark subject. Based
on Hubert Selby Jr.'s novel (the man who brought us the shocking Last Exit To
Brooklyn), we're given a glimpse of a related group who fall into a range of addiction.
From heroin to diet pills and sex for money to feed a habit. Intense, shocking,
scary and uneasy, it wasn't meant to be a glamour trip, even though the photography
is amazing at times. It'll blow you away or you'll think it sucks.
5 /
B
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