
Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a retired widow, living in a small apartment. She spends most of her time watching TV, especially a particular self-help show. She has delusions of rising above her current dull existence by being a guest on that show. Her son, Harry (Jared Leto) is a junkie but along with his friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) has visions of making it big by becoming a drug dealer. Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) could be fashion designer or artist b... (Full plot summary below)
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Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a retired widow, living in a small apartment. She spends most of her time watching TV, especially a particular self-help show. She has delusions of rising above her current dull existence by being a guest on that show. Her son, Harry (Jared Leto) is a junkie but along with his friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) has visions of making it big by becoming a drug dealer. Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) could be fashion designer or artist but is swept along in Harry's drug-centric world. Meanwhile Sara has developed an addiction of her own. She desperately wants to lose weight and so goes on a crash course involving popping pills, pills which turn out to be very addictive and harmful to her mental state.
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| San Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamHe (Aronofsky) has put together a phantasmagoria of self-destructive obsession that is so visually astounding it becomes its own saving grace. Otherwise, we might not be able to bear it. |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanAronofsky rewrites the language of film to create a dizzying journey into the abyss. The best film of 2000. |
| Film Journal InternationalPeter HenneBy delving deeply into these people's strivings and predicaments, Aronofsky unearths what makes need fueled by fantasy tick. You may get a shock by what you find inside there. |
| Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionSteve MurrayFilm lovers with a high threshold for unpleasantness will get a contact high from Aronofsky's muscular manipulations of imagery and editing. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaAronofsky doesn't merely make one bear witness to four characters' harrowing descents into drug addiction; he forces one to experience their euphoric highs and, above else, their shattering lows. |
| Dallas Morning NewsChris VognarFor the strong of stomach and open of mind, Requiem delivers some bravura filmmaking flourishes. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanMay be the first movie to fully capture the way that drugs dislocate us from ourselves. |
| San Jose Mercury NewsGlenn LovellBoth bleak and bleakly funny, appalling in its excesses and exhilarating in its execution. |
| Detroit Free PressTerry LawsonConveys, visually, sonically and dramatically, the siren call of addiction like no other movie has. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversAronofsky has fashioned a chilling vision that lives up to the caustic irony of its title and gives us a nightmare that is not lightly forgotten. |