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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: 7984
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 One of the best Soundtracks ever!!! October 9, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Being a big fan of the movie, and an even bigger fan of the soundtrack. This was a must have for my music collection.
Melancholy, heartbreakingly beautiful music to an equally incredible movie. August 23, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of the best soundtracks I've ever heard. The perfect accompaniment to the movie. An amazing, painful movie; much the same can be said about this eerie, melancholy soundtrack.
This is definately one CD you don't want to listen to if you're looking to be cheered up. The music captures so perfectly the mood of the movie, the disaster of addiction and love lost and lives spiraling out of control. Absolutely amazing cd.
Dark, Fatalistic, Dreamy...Music to cut your wrists to August 17, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
'Requiem' is my first experience with the Kronos Quartet, and what an experience. I'm locked in, an avid fan of anyone who can produce music this dark and dreary, while still providing enough energy licks to pull the knife away from my wrist occasionally.
Goth may be dark at times, and The Cure owns the field for exasperating despair and loneliness in their music, but 'Requiem' takes Dark to a new level. This is an original score, no lyrics to tease you into the direction the artist wants you to go, simply music that reaches out its shadowy hand and pulls you into the pit with it.
'Requiem' has managed to paint the languid contentment of heroin highs alongside the razor-shivering anguish of withdrawals, the racy ecstasy of diet-pill mania and the nightmarish paranoia of medication-induced delusions. This score has painted the spiral of addiction into notes of realism rarely found in a musical score, using a unique form of what I like to call "Classical Electronica".
You will actually feel the hopelessness and despair, will pace as far as your headphones allow, wondering if this world is worth living in. I can't say enough good things about this powerful Score, other than you had better be a fan of dark music before picking up a copy. Otherwise, you might find a knife pressed to your wrist. Enjoy!
Requiem For A Dream Soundtrack - Mindblowing, Heartstopping, Breathtaking. August 4, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
From the thought-provoking 'Coney Island Dreaming' to the heartstopping 'Meltdown', this soundtrack contains by far the most beautiful, terrifying, inspiring and devastating compositions these two ears have ever heard. Point blank. Inspiring. Breathtaking. It's low, depressing beauty will enchant you.
This soundtrack is astounding May 18, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought the soundtrack right after seeing the movie and years later, listening to it still makes my heart thump the way it did the first time I heard "Le Sacre du Printemps" when the strings suddenly start coming in nonstop assault (my musical terminology is not the best, but people who know that work will hopefully know the part I mean). I have never been affected so much by a soundtrack, and it's not entirely a pleasant experience, but it's an unforgettable one. See the movie first.
I have read complaints here about the shortness of some of the pieces, but they all hang together, and to be honest, I don't
know if I could take them any longer.
This is the aural equivalent of something you just can't look away from, as frightening as it is. The Kronos Quartet does an excellent job. The orchestration is amazing.
Does anyone else here the hissed "happy tappy" in a couple of the pieces? Brrrrrrrrr.
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