Starry Eyes

Horror-allegória a holttesteken is átmenő emberi becsvágy rothadásáról, amelyben az ember elveszíti barátait és önmagát is. Találóan Los Angeles-i színész környezetébe helyezve. "A holttesteken át" ebben az esetben szó szerint érthető, mert az érdekes, titokzatos, pszichológiai első félidő után a filmből véres slasher lesz. Ami elég nagy csalódás, és utána már csak nehezen próbálja menteni magát szándékosan látszólag művészi, de mégis eredeti befejezéssel. (2016.01.14)

This thing is completely oozing with "Aronofsky" (which needn't necessarily be a bad thing), unfortunately I couldn't help internally rating it "WTF" at some points and I really don't mean that as a positive. It's certainly thought-provoking as an allegory for a life full of personal ambition and desperation to succeed in the big movie world. The transformation of the main character is interesting on the whole, but only to the point where the plot starts to veer towards the overly spiritual. I understand that the sectarian theme is actually secondary here and only serves as a means to satisfy its own ambitions, yet I couldn't help feeling that it was actually overblown in some places. And the soundtrack, which in the vast majority of cases would be more suited to a giallo film, didn't add much to it either. But the van gore scene was worth it. (2020.01.26)

A more literal and drastic version of Black Swan. It balances on the border of a serious parable and a B-movie caricature, and both approaches clash a lot against each other. I’m not ecstatic, but it does have a couple of effective scenes. (2014.11.14)