Requiem for a Dream (2000)

edgy

jerky storytelling style

imaginatively photographed

wide-angle lenses

signature editing: split screen used to multiply the anxiety

lightning-fast cuts to evoke the vertiginous high kicking in--somehow this pace seems as American as the image of Washington on the dollar bill used to snort

sped-up footage a la Clockwork Orange

adapted from the Hubert Selby novel by Selby and Aronofsky

Matthew Libatique

TV

fad diets

"It's great out there! Everyone is thirsty!" (Leto)

"I'm somebody now, Harry. Everybody likes me. Soon, millions of people will see me, and they'll all like me."

a brand-new TV set from Macy's

urban poetry: newspaper airplane gliding over Coney Island accompanies a discussion of her untapped potential

a shop to sell her own clothing designs

Kronos Quartet

Tappy Tibbons (Christopher McDonald), Louise Lasser, Keith David, Dylan Baker,