I notice that this movie doesn't always get a good rating in various places, but I for one liked it, enormously. I thought that it was enormously creative. It's a very avant-garde movie, but I don't think that it would be fair to categorize as just artsy or arty. That said, it is an amazingly contemporary study of drugs in general. It basically shoots you in the gut with that message. But I just have to say that hand's down Ellen Burstyn is the greatest thing about this movie. There's an extremely hallucinatory scene that just blows your mind away. Not to say that the special effects came into play because of her performance, but sometimes I just think that the magical effect of the actors artistry somehow has something to do with whether a scene is good or not. This movie is definitely not for the squeamish, and Jennifer Connelly is also superb.
Review of Requiem for a Dream
