Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray] by Darren Aronofsky, starring Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Keith David, Louise Lasser, Christopher McDonald: DVDNear.com

Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]

Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
by Darren Aronofsky

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Actor: Christopher McDonald, Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Keith David, Louise Lasser
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Brand: Lions Gate
Cinematographer: Matthew J. Libatique
Cinematographer: Palmer West
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-09-08
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate

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Movie Review: Superb blu ray version of a masterpiece film
Summary: 5 Stars

The first thing that needs to be said is that REQUIEM FOR A DREAM is honest and raw. Nothing is held back here. It is not a story told to lightly touch on the subject of addiction. Instead the entire film is living in the life of an addict with nothing held back. Being in recovery I see how true to life this film is. It starts right off with our main characters using. We have Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly all giving the performances of a lifetime. The characters are likable and shown in enough of a perspective that we can care for them but the downward spiral that will continue throughout the fim begins right at the start. Jared and Jennifer are boyfriend and girlfriend shooting up to escape, get a high or just relax. Ellen Burstyn is the mother who goes to the doctor to get pills to help loose weight. All starts innocent enough but the film quickly turns into the never ending descent into hell that is the life of an addict. It realistically shows how what one thinks is a chosen act for escape becomes a psychological and physical addiction for which the user will do anything. The hell they endure is self inflicted but they cannot stop due to the addiction. This movie is scarier than any thriller or stalker film for it is about real life. Many don't want to see or even imagine the life of a true drug addict and the ends to which our characters go to get their drug gets more and more horrific as the film goes on. The scariest part of it is that it is all a realistic portrayal of the life of an addict. There is no joy here. The film is a descent into hell and it ends with a wallop. For most one viewing will be enough for this film. It is a masterpiece but how often does one choose to go to hell.

On the other side, this film truly is a masterpiece. Even though it is 10 years old it is the most honest, realistic depiction of drug addiction ever on film. The reason to view this film again is the amazing performances by the main three and the superb directing by Darren Aronofsky. The blu ray transfer is amazing. You would never guess that the film is 10 years old and the transfer makes all the colors crisper and video more vivid. The audio is amazing. Bottom line, the blu ray transfer holds strong to the integrity of the film. It is grainy where need be and the clarity to the rest brings the message and horror of this film that much stronger. I highly recommend this film. Be prepared and aware of what you will be viewing. This is a tough fim to watch - bottom line. But it is an amazing film and when a film so honestly and truthfully tackles such a difficult subject you must view it. And as I said, you will be so awe struck by the performances that you may want to view it again. The blu ray version is superb. The film is hardcore and an experience you will never forget. Highly recommend.

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REQUIEM FOR A DREAM - Blu-Ray Movie

Employing shock techniques and sound design in a relentless sensory assault, Requiem for a Dream is about nothing less than the systematic destruction of hope. Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr., and adapted by Selby and director Darren Aronofsky, this is undoubtedly one of the most effective films ever made about the experience of drug addiction (both euphoric and nightmarish), and few would deny that Aronofsky, in following his breakthrough film Pi, has pushed the medium to a disturbing extreme, thrusting conventional narrative into a panic zone of traumatized psyches and bodies pushed to the furthest boundaries of chemical tolerance. It's too easy to call this a cautionary tale; it's a guided tour through hell, with Aronofsky as our bold and ruthless host.

The film focuses on a quartet of doomed souls, but it's Ellen Burstyn--in a raw and bravely triumphant performance--who most desperately embodies the downward spiral of drug abuse. As lonely widow Sara Goldfarb, she invests all of her dreams in an absurd self-help TV game show, jolting her bloodstream with diet pills and coffee while her son Harry (Jared Leto) shoots heroin with his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) and slumming girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly). They're careening toward madness at varying speeds, and Aronofsky tracks this gloomy process by endlessly repeating the imagery of their deadly routines. Tormented by her dietary regime, Sara even imagines a carnivorous refrigerator in one of the film's most memorable scenes. And yet... does any of this have a point? Is Aronofsky telling us anything that any sane person doesn't already know? Requiem for a Dream is a noteworthy film, but watching it twice would qualify as masochistic behavior. --Jeff Shannon

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