Requiem for a Dream

The excuse for afterbirth director of this movie could have saved all of the viewing public some time by titling this film “Generic Drug Movie”. I loathed Pi, it is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I held off in seeing his follow up, Requiem for a Dream based on my sheer hatred for Pi. I finally caved into peer pressure, renting the DVD, and subsequently learned that I had wasted 4 dollars.

What I liked: Marlon Wayans surprised the living christ out of me… I guess he can act afterall… Ellen Burstyn is one of the greatest actresses of our day. She did a wonderful job convincing me she was going crazy…. And why shouldn’t she with one of the thinnest plotlines I have ever let my senses encounter.

What I hated: Seriously? Almost everything else. The son-of-a-bitch even used the “DV Cam Duct-Taped to the Chest Cam” again. I give up on this reject…. I am sick of people who make annoying art being praised for being visionary. Visionary does not equal bad, get it through your heads. There is nothing about RFAD that makes it any more special than the “don’t be a junkie” after-school-specials they forced us to watch in high-school health classes.