The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep. Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream showcases once again that the director is just overrated and makes so many weird movies that is very hard to like (except The Fountain that was awesome) but the film is all about drugs and addiction and never really captures the magic and the drama that it needs to make you care and i happen to like both Leto and Connelly but their characters were just really poorly developed and the film ain't that good as it could. (0/10)

The most irritating and unpleasant movie i've watched. Sexuality, drug(or smt.) addiction, miserable family bond. To be influenced if you want , watch it. Additively i can say, soundtracks by Clint Mansell was awesome.

You will find it very very hard to connect to this movie if you have never been a drug user. Even if you were able to connect, you will probably be thinking about what you used to thinjk when the drugs hit you hard rather than following the movie.

Jared Leto plays Harry, a junkie who, along with pal Tyrone (Marlon Wayans), hopes to make a killing buying drugs and reselling it on the streets; meanwhile, Harry's mother Sara (Ellen Burstyn) becomes dependent on uppers in a bid to lose weight ready for an appearance on a TV game show. As time passes, Harry winds up with an infected arm, his girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) resorts to prostituting herself for her next fix, his mum goes completely loopy, and Tyrone ends up in prison.I understand that, having graduated from film school, a young director will be keen to show off some of what they have learnt. In Requiem for a Dream, Darren Aronofsky goes all out, chucking in everything including the kitchen sink. Not one second goes by without a 'cool' film-making technique being thrust in the viewers face, whether it be split screen, time lapse, rapid repetitive editing, or Snorricam. It's all there, to such an extent that it pulls the viewer out of the film, as opposed to immersing them (which I believe was the intention).Aronofsky is so enamoured with his clever visual trickery that he neglects to develop his characters beyond the basics or tell a decent story beyond the bleeding obvious: that drugs are bad.