Darren Aronofsky, director of the critical smash Pi, follows up his acclaimed debut with a gritty, stylish, emotionally charged story of Iove, loss, drugs and dreams amid the faded glory of Coney lsIand. IntricateIy Iinking the lives of a struggIing, smalI-time drug deaIer , his pill-popping mother , his upper-class girlfriend 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 faIl apart, they refuse to Iet go, plummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching freefall. |