Why Darren Aronofsky Is Kooler than Jesus
Going to the cinema is like Sunday mass for me, just without the sheer repetitious boredom and desire to be at home flossing. Movies offer a look beyond what we know or a new way of understanding what we know; a great movie does both.
Which brings us to Darren Aronofsky. His second feature, "Requiem for a Dream," is his more popular one (at least, as popular as a movie about heroin addiction whose characters wind up completely insane, as prostitutes, or dismembered can be), but his first, a story about finding a mathematical pattern in the stock market and the Tanakh called "Pi," was so shocking and so harrowing that my hands shook for five or ten minutes after I finished seeing it for the first time.
His new movie, "The Fountain," sounds equally amazing; it's a love story about a man trying to save his dying wife, a triplicate narrative that spans 1,000 years (with sequences in the time of the Mayans, the present, and 500 years in the future). Here's an article from Wired News about how Aronofsky created the effects- it sounds unlike any other process I've heard of, as innovative as Kubrick shooting chemical reactions for "2001" or Douglas Trumbull's effects in "Close Encounters" and "Blade Runner" or Lucas' team inventing motion control to shoot the spaceships in "Star Wars." Get ready for cinematic Rapture- we're about to see something unlike anything we've seen before.
On a related note, here's a piece in the Guardian by author Paul Auster about the particularly wonderful art of storytelling.
Which brings us to Darren Aronofsky. His second feature, "Requiem for a Dream," is his more popular one (at least, as popular as a movie about heroin addiction whose characters wind up completely insane, as prostitutes, or dismembered can be), but his first, a story about finding a mathematical pattern in the stock market and the Tanakh called "Pi," was so shocking and so harrowing that my hands shook for five or ten minutes after I finished seeing it for the first time.
His new movie, "The Fountain," sounds equally amazing; it's a love story about a man trying to save his dying wife, a triplicate narrative that spans 1,000 years (with sequences in the time of the Mayans, the present, and 500 years in the future). Here's an article from Wired News about how Aronofsky created the effects- it sounds unlike any other process I've heard of, as innovative as Kubrick shooting chemical reactions for "2001" or Douglas Trumbull's effects in "Close Encounters" and "Blade Runner" or Lucas' team inventing motion control to shoot the spaceships in "Star Wars." Get ready for cinematic Rapture- we're about to see something unlike anything we've seen before.
On a related note, here's a piece in the Guardian by author Paul Auster about the particularly wonderful art of storytelling.
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