I have to say that I am not a fan of Darren Aronofsky’s films or visions, or whatever. There are different ways to express alienations and passion and love. What did I say? Love? Where had Darren Aronofsky showed love? In The Fountain ? So gloomy, so distant… love. His name came up with Pi, Requiem for a Dream , The Wrestler, and now with the Portman’s Golden Globe Award fame, Black Swan.
These movies had all a great deal of artistry but they left me with a very sour taste, sad, irreversibly doomed characters, in an irreversibly doomed world, not at all attractively showed.
“To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don’t think is a good ride.” I don’t know what to say more, these are this director’s own words. He claimed he gave Mickey Rourke the role in The Wrestler against all odds, that “no one believed in Mickey Rourke… He has no value as a commodity”. I believe Rourke would have had a better hit to an Oscar if directed by another one. I say this because I believed at the time, in 2008, when this Academy nominating and awarding happened, only Frank Langella was a challenger, for his Frost/Nixon masterpiece. I’m not saying Brad “Benjamin Button” Pitt is a bad actor, he’s good, really good, “properly” good in movies like Snatch or Fight Club or even freaky 12 Monkeys type. Sean Penn took the statue, and it wasn’t worth it. Anyway, with all this hopelessness and negativity transpiring in his movies, he had a lot of success. De gustibus non discutandum. In his own words, again: “There’s always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If Pi didn’t work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don’t think I would have gotten another shot at it. If Requiem for a Dream didn’t work out, they would have called me a one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump.” All the quotes are from his imdb biography.
His last movie on the market is Black Swan. Not an Oscar movie, but a successful one, typically “Aronofsky movie”.
N. Portman
You don’t have to take me seriously, maybe I’m a little bit “derailed”. After Requiem for a Dream, I look at an Aronofsky movie just to be informed, and only after I heard of nominations, nominees and such. Because at Oscar’s, Dakota Fanning and others will cast their votes on this category, the Leon girl Natalie Hershlag will have some challenge even in Anette Benning who, by the way, acted brilliantly in another forgettable movie, The Kids Are All Right. If this film was “funny, smart, sexy and enlightening”, “one of the year’s best pictures” I’m loosing my sense of humor, than. A film suited much better for GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) Media Awards.
Some disclaimer seems to be necessary here. I have nothing against anybody mentioned in this post, against Aronofsky in the first place, it is just that I don’t like some of his creations. I don’t say it’s bad either. People vote for his movies on imdb. An 8 or even something in between 7 and 8 rating here, is great. I’m the one not harmonizing with his movies’ vibes.
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