From the misguided camp of Reefer Madness and The Trip to the harrowing reality of Christiane F and Trainspotting, filmmakers have long been fascinated with the downward spiral of drug addiction.

Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream is an earnest attempt to find sympathy for those who have lost their souls to the stranglehold of addiction.
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It doesn't take much imagination to realize that Requiem For A Dream, a movie about hardcore drug addicts, is probably going to be brutish, bleak and depressing.

It is. The film is also riveting and often brilliant. Just don't be misled by the casting of Marlon Wayans -- the funnyman who grossed us out this past summer in the hilarious spoof Scary Movie -- as one of the addicts. In Requiem, he provides no comic relief whatsoever. And none is wanted.
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