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| Requiem for a Dream (2000 Film) | 
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| Artists: Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (102 reviews)
Sales Rank: 17027
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79611
UPC: 075597961126
EAN: 0075597961126
ASIN: B00004Y6Q5
Release Date: October 10, 2000
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| Customer Reviews:
 climbing up the walls December 8, 2000
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
OK CREEPY! Much as I hate to give anything on here 5 stars (since EVERYTHING GETS 5 STARS), I needed to give it to this. This music is inside my head. Inside my body. Inside me. IT'S CREEPIN ME OUT! I can't stop. I saw the movie two days ago (have seen only Pi since then)and was knocked flat by the movie -- eventually. At first I was numbed. Then I bought this. This climbs inside your head and starts pulling little strands of your gray matter s l o w l y apart. But it's good. It's taking me over. It's also beatiful, many times. The strings can be wonderfully dark warm red. It's probably the best instrumental movie soundtrack that I know of since 2001, (Virgin Suicides, although nice, simply cannot count, esp. since there are no strings, just synths) which I believed to be the only soundtrack of it's kind. Evocative. Chilling. Real. This is giving it some tough competition. I listened to it last night before I went to bed (slightly out of my mind) and the abrupt changes in musical style as well as the "storyline" that the tracking order manages to accomplish, along with my pitch black basement, made me feel as though I were reliving all I had seen. It tore me apart. Then I fell asleep. Careful. If you buy it, it will BECOME YOU!
Brilliant. November 4, 2000
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The movie, mixed with these perfect sounds, will produce dramatic effects on any viewer. Darron Aronofsky is now the "Picasso" of film industry, with respects to Bill Viola (another film genius). Everything is supurb. No less.
 Daring Score November 3, 2000
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
This score is remarkable. It was recomended to me by a friend and purchased blindly (though cautiously) and any fears I had were abandoned by the end of the first two and a half minutes of the "Summer Overture".Clint Mansell has managed to paint an unusual chromatic landscape of the human psyche with his music for "RFAD" and combined the long underestimated art of incidental music with daring, even risky, composition. One recalls the days when incidental music meant something (think Faure's "Peleas et Melisende" suite or Mendhelson's "Midsummer Night's Dream".) This is not to compare Mansell's music to the grandfather of Impressionism and fairy-godfather of the Romantic movement, but there is something to be said for a score that stands on its own musically. The fascinatingly sensuous comingling of electronic programing and strings (provided by the fabulous Kronos Quartet) are otherworldly. There is a strange sensual nature to the relationship between two seemingly conflicting forms - the organic nature of strings vs. cold electronic pontification - and one thinks to the ultimate example of such a feat: Bjork's "Homogenic". Like "Homogenic" the strings and programing work well together. Also like "Homogenic" the two forces aren't in harmony with each other. Rather, they seem to be battling each other in a vital strugle for survival, racing each other, stabbing at each other with every note. It is conflicting, difficult, and in the end beautiful. The feeling one gets from listening to this CD is similar to the way one feels after leaving one of Shakespeare's more gruesome tragedies (not to compare with the Bard, but for the sake of metaphor) : You have witnessed something dangerous, horrifying and graphic - and you have found such beautiful poetry laced through every second. The strings sometime recall earlier (Peter Greenaway days) Michael Nyman or even (gasp) mellow Phillip Glass. That's not entirely a bad thing. But the influence is reasonably noticeable. I'd say buy it. Hate me if you hate it. I don't give a rip.
A film score to own October 30, 2000
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
The score stands alone! It's a haunting, thrilling, and ultimately chilling experience akin to Radiohead's 'OK COMPUTER' and Bjork's "All is full of Love". While not something to be listened to one track at a time, collectively, it's a wonderfully heart-bearing experience.
A 1,000 Times Yes! October 16, 2000
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you're one of the dwindling few who acknowledge movies and music as serious art, then you're going to need the "Requiem" soundtrack. Just as incredible as the film, this sountrack bleeds with passion. The highs give you enough energy to dance all night, the lows are low enough to make you want to hide in a dark hole forever. The techno is 21st century, the string arrangements you'd swear came right out of the classical period. The duality is striking and very effective. A rare gem that's all the better when you sit down and listen from beginning to end. Clint Mansell has done another amazing job (Pi is one of the coolest soundtracks to ever come out), every arrangement strikes a deeply emotional chord. If you like to take chances, have a sense of humor and don't care for the mediocrity and safety of mainstream music, check out Clint's now-defunct band, Pop Will Eat Itself. You will see that this musical genius did not come out of nowhere, he's been under our noses and between our sheets for quite some time now. Thanks Clint, can't wait for the next one!
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