Darren Aronofsky
3 titles · american genre
Obsession filmed as bodily punishment. Aronofsky puts people through physical and psychic destruction in pursuit of perfection or transcendence, with the form escalating alongside the protagonist's deterioration.
Signature
- Hip-hop montage and snorricam rigs binding camera to body.
- Addiction, discipline and self-destruction.
- Escalating formal intensity mirroring collapse.
- Religious and mythic framing of secular ruin.
Requiem for a Dream
The Whale
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