Rank his films

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1) The Wrestler (9/10)
2) Requiem For a Dream (8/10)
3) Pi (6/10)
4) Black Swan (5.5/10)

Didn't see the fountain... Just saw Black Swan and was incredibly disappointed. Poorly developed relationships between characters, themes thrown in our faces, forced down our throats. The only redeeming quality is the high quality performances from the actors.

I think Aronofsky often has the problem of putting his themes above his characters... even in Requiem although it works a little better there than in Pi or Black Swan IMHO.

The Wrestler feels natural and is set in the real world rather than a fever dream representing a certain character's affliction.

1) Requiem for a Dream
2) Black Swan
3) The Wrestler
4) Pi
5) The Fountain

Requiem for a Dream is his masterpiece and I doubt he'll surpass it, it blends style and substance seamlessly unlike Pi which is all style over substance or the Wrestler which is the opposite. I think the reason some people didn't get Black Swan was because they fail to understand that it is from Nina's viewpoint, so the characters are going to be one-dimensional because we are seeing how they are perceived by her. I think Aronofsky overreached himself with The Fountain, which is why his next two were more down to earth.

I used to like "Requiem For A Dream" a lot more before I was told something.

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When patients are given electric shock treatment, the procedure is done while they are unconscious. It is pure Hollywood over-dramatisation which depicts the procedure as happening painfully while people are fully conscious.

I still love all the films, but Requiem slipped to the bottom of the list.

I don't think Black Swan was more down-to-earth than The Fountain. Black Swan is completely surreal in places, whereas The Fountain is only surreal when it is depicting elements from the book Rachel Weisz's character is writing.

1- Black Swan 10
2- Requiem 9
3- The Wrestler 8.5
4- The Fountain 7
5- Pi 6

I haven't seen Requiem for a Dream yet.

1. The Wrestler
2. Black Swan
3. The Fountain
4. Pi

1. Requiem for a Dream
2. The Fountain
3. Black Swan
4. The Wrestler
5. Pi

None would rank lower than 7/10 though. Great director, look forward to Noah.

I think it is a bit nit-picky to bother about that much detail, without meaning to offend you.

In my view "Requiem for a dream" isn't about giving a documentary-style view into the life of a psychiatric patient. The movie is about the downfall of the lives of all the characters, and it uses hyperbolic imagery to get their suffering across, sometimes realistically, sometimes as a feverish nightmare, but always to heighten the anxiety and terror they are experiencing. Arronofsky does this in all three of the movies I've seen of him.

Personally I like Requiem for a Dream best of the three Arronofsky movies I've seen so far, with Pi and Black Swan sharing second place, because it would be impossible to qualitatively compare two movies that are so different in style. On the other hand the struggle of the main characters in "Pi" and "Black Swan" is very similar in a way. Both characters are trying to reach for something higher, and both only find it to lose it immediately, because the price for that higher thing is to lose your sanity. In a certain way I suppose Requiem for a dream is about that as well, only there it is even more tragic, because all four characters are reaching for something that just isn't there.