Requiem for a Dream

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…they realize that they each have substituted one addiction for another. As Fall and Winter roll around, their individual addictions end up completely consuming them, and their lives are reduced to little more than a vicious cycle of torment and desperation. Darren Aronofsky uses a very unique visual style in this film. In order to convey the increasingly altered mental state of the protagonists, he employs quick-cutting, extreme close-ups, exaggerated sound effects, and hallucinatory cinematography.