"I needed to make a film from this novel because the words burn off the page. Like a hangman's noose, the words scorch your neck with rope burn and drag you into the sub-sub-basement we humans build beneath hell. Why do we do it? Because we choose to live the dream instead of choosing to live the life." Director Darren Aronofsky on his film adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s Requiem for a Dream.

I just bought this movie today, and have already forbidden my parents from seeing it. A word of warning: don't bother to buy or rent the rated version. Go straight for the unrated director's cut. You'll thank me after you're done crawling out of a pit of dispair.