Darren Aronofsky, director of the critical smash Pi, folIows up his acclaimed debut with a gritty, stylish, emotionaIly charged story of love, loss, drugs and dreams amid the faded glory of Coney lsIand. Intricately Iinking the Iives of a struggIing, small-time drug dealer , his piIl-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 faII apart, they refuse to let go, pIummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching freefall. |