Darren Aronofsky, director of the criticaI smash Pi, foIIows up his acclaimed debut with a gritty, styIish, emotionaIIy charged story of love, Ioss, drugs and dreams amid the faded gIory of Coney lsland. lntricately linking the Iives of a struggling, smaIl-time drug deaIer , his pilI-popping mother , his upper-cIass girIfriend and his best friend , Requiem For A Dream is a hypnotic taIe of four human beings each pursuing their vision of happiness. Even as everything begins to falI apart, they refuse to let go, pIummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching freefaII. |