I had never seen this before and finally got around to watching it. All I knew about it is it has a killer soundtrack and was Darron Aronofsky’s 2nd film after Pi (which I saw and didn’t really like, but appreciated). It kind of blew my mind a little. There’s something about these characters that I really just felt for. There was the lonely mother who just wanted to be loved and recognized, the son who wanted to make his mom and girlfriend proud and cared for, and the girlfriend who wanted to be loved. I wanted so much for them to get out of the downward spiral that the drugs led them to (though they never really get back up from rock-bottom). And I really like the stylistic things that Aronofsky did with the film, like the camera that is connected to the actor that gives that shaky feeling to everything but them, and the “hip-hop montages” ( a sequence of images or actions shown in fast-motion with accompanying sound effects, usually shown to simulate a certain action, such as taking drugs, thanks imdb). I wonder what it is that brings Aronofsky to all these sad, human, stories. All his films are pretty tragic to some degree (his other films are The Wrestler(really liked it), The Fountain (hated it), and Pi). I’ll definitely have to watch this again sometime after I have more time to digest.

I had never seen this before and finally got around to watching it. All I knew about it is it has a killer soundtrack and was Darron Aronofsky’s 2nd film after Pi (which I saw and didn’t really like, but appreciated). It kind of blew my mind a little. There’s something about these characters that I really just felt for. There was the lonely mother who just wanted to be loved and recognized, the son who wanted to make his mom and girlfriend proud and cared for, and the girlfriend who wanted to be loved. I wanted so much for them to get out of the downward spiral that the drugs led them to (though they never really get back up from rock-bottom). And I really like the stylistic things that Aronofsky did with the film, like the camera that is connected to the actor that gives that shaky feeling to everything but them, and the “hip-hop montages” ( a sequence of images or actions shown in fast-motion with accompanying sound effects, usually shown to simulate a certain action, such as taking drugs, thanks imdb). I wonder what it is that brings Aronofsky to all these sad, human, stories. All his films are pretty tragic to some degree (his other films are The Wrestler(really liked it), The Fountain (hated it), and Pi). I’ll definitely have to watch this again sometime after I have more time to digest.