Ranking all of Darren Aronovsky’s films; From the worst to the best • DigiKala Meg

The 1980s were full of young and normative filmmakers whose tests and errors and creativity have quickly transformed the cinema industry. Darren Aronowski was one of the new directors who, with his associates, basically built their professional path on the Sundance Film Festival. However, Aronovsky was different from these syllables, such as Quentin Tarantino, Richard Lincolter, Noa Bamebak or David Russell; Because his works were mainly anti -commercial, bold, and vague. From the outset, it seemed that Darren Aronovsky had put his mission on narrating the annoying stories about human misery rather than using storytelling and images to attract audiences to his films.

It is true that Darren has consolidated himself as the director of stimulant films, but you can see the path of professional maturity in his films showing that he is entirely a humanist. Darren Aronovsky’s films have no mid -range; Either you love them, or hate them; But one thing you can’t ignore: Aronovsky has always tried to portray aspects of human status that are often not attracted by other filmmakers. Although sometimes his films move Adam to the boundary of the mental disintegration, Aronovsky is a drummer in his work; Drinking that often brings mythical and religious themes to its films. Of course, there is a discussion of which films were drawn to extremes, but even in its extremism, something is worth the analysis.

Aronovsky never comes short of his films. At a time when most directors have to dance the studio and that streaming platform, Darren Aronovsky’s films always follow the standard, albeit a standard of his personal values. Although Black Swan is the only work of Aronovski to have a Oscar -winning director, Darren Aronovsky’s name is now in itself. From Noah, which, despite much criticism, at Box Office, to The Whale, which became one of the most profitable films in A24 history, Darren Aronovsky’s films have always become a filmmaker. Aronovsky also has a new movie this year; CAGHT STEALING, which looks strange to the director’s career; But where does this film fit among all Aronovsky’s miserable movies? The following is a Darren Aronovsky films from the worst to the best.

Ranking Darren Aronovsky’s films, from the worst to the best

1. Whale.

• Year of release: 1
• Cast: Branden Freezer, Sidi Sink, Hang Chao, Samantha Morton
• Rating on Ratt Tomos website: 1 out of 1

It may be a bit exaggerated to say that among the films of Darren Aronovski, it was the “whale” that aroused the most intense reactions from the audience and critics; Reactions that are deliberately contradictory. Some of Aronovsky’s adaptation of the controversial play of Samuel D. Hunter called for acceptance and empathy, others described it as a cruel adaptation. At best, the “whale” is a complex analysis of how shame is due to sexuality, religion, isolation, abandonment and fear of disrupting the status quo; At the worst, the whale is struggling with the humanity of its subject, and it has become the greatest criticism of viewers of Aronovsky’s film.

You can’t talk about the film “Whale” and did not mention the extraordinary performance of Brendan Freezer in the role of Charlie, which also had an Oscar -winning award. Charlie is an extremely obese English literature teacher who is only enclosed in Idaho’s apartment. It brings Aronovsky’s genius to find one of the most rich actors in his generation and give him the opportunity to play a character that is despicable. Charlie has to hide in the shadows of society in the whale, but the deepest hatred and shame he experiences brings all over himself. While Charlie’s body is used in the whale to motivate the feeling of disgust, the freezer still plays the role of Charlie with an exemplary sensitivity and elegance; Something that unfortunately can’t see in the sub -actors; So that the talented playmates of Freezer, Sydney Sink and Tai Simpkins are in front of the freezer game.

Aronovsky usually makes strange decisions in his films that make viewers two. Aronovsky’s decision in Whale to preserve the story in the same oppressive atmosphere of the main story is the film’s most significant achievement and the biggest disadvantage. Although isolation and clastrophobia justify the exaggerated feelings that are displayed, this can continue to do so. Aronovsky’s sophisticated efforts to find new angles have either led to a stagnant image or an indispensable image. Aronovsky has a lot of pits with “whale”, and the result was all the controversial reactions he made; But at least the “whale” gave the freezer a chance to deliver the best performance of his career.

1. Noah (noah)

• Year of release: 1
• Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Conley, Anthony Hopkins, but Watson
• Rating on Ratt Tomos website: 1 out of 1

Aronovsky is famous for its controversial approach to representing religious themes; But “Noah” is surprisingly a straightforward adaptation of the most well -known story of Genesis. “Noah” has an epic and vibrant narrative that we had never seen before in Darren Aronovsky’s films; At the same time, it is not possible to put it next to the style of Christian cinema that became Bob after the film The Passion of the Christ. The movie “Noah” is sometimes a Grotsky monster, sometimes a family story, sometimes litigation for nature; Even sometimes it looks like a mythical adventure with the “Lord of the Rings”!

It doesn’t mean to give Darren Aronovsky $ 5 million to tell the story of Noah like any other filmmaker. The film has the same style of psychological horror and apocalyptic anxiety that you have seen in other Aronovsky films such as The Fountain and PI. Any representation of such a sensitive story cannot be controversial; Let alone Darren Aronovsky wants to make this story by resorting to his own psychotic perception. Therefore, Aronovsky has used other religious sources and texts beyond the Bible text.

The best parts of “Noah” are those who allow the director to depict specific sensory and visual views of the apocalypse and rebirth; Especially since Darren Aronovsky had never been able to use such an artistic form of computer effects for his films. Although the drama of Noah’s story does not have the unpaid and honest of Aronovsky’s previous films, he has included interesting ideas of sin, responsibility and transfer from father to son. Whatever Anthony Hopkins scenes in the role of mere and devoid of any shocking element, the parallel story of Noah (Russell Crowe) with his son (Logan Lerman) infiltrates your emotions. Noah’s film “Noah” out of his safe area and forced him to portray a narrative beyond a traditional narrative of this religious story; So, with all its problems, Noah still deserves to be watched.

1. Mother! (Mother)

• Year of release: 1
• Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Fiefar, Dammel Glyceon
• Rating on Ratt Tomos website: 1 out of 1

In all his films, Darren Aronovsky has been the complexities of the concept of faith, but “Mother!” He provides his most critical analysis of religious literature. Noah may have made the Bible stories a platform for Aronovsky’s high -profile statements about human relationship with nature, but she is in the movie “Mother!” He examines the Creator’s behavior through a narcissistic, unnamed artist (Javier Bardem). The Aronovsky version of the Creator is not just a dominant character with a poisonous masculinity, who is a narcissistic master who is so overwhelmed by his selfishness that he cannot see his wife’s misery (Jennifer Lawrence), a symbol of the mother. Even if you have nothing to do with symbolism, Aronovsky’s references and references to “Mother!” Are quite clear; Like Ed Harris and Michelle Fief, who play their own versions of Adam and Eve.

In “Mother!” Is the creator of an artist who is willing to forgive the human evils committed by pride. But contrary to the usual Aronovsky films, no subcutaneous delicacies or references to her narrative in “Mother!” There is no. The characters live in a vacuum, and the Bible stories take place in a completely clear manner in the couple’s house. With the arrival of Adam and Eve, everything becomes hell that increases tension and violence to a waiting extent and from “Mother!” It makes a 5 -minute neural attack.

Although Aronovsky in “Mother!” They have acted elaborate in both techniques and tone, but they did not make the audience unanimously declare their hatred of the film. Many attacks against the performance of Jennifer Lawrence in “Mother!” There is, but it should be told to this actor that he has done his best to give Aronovsky’s incomplete understanding of the character, which is summarized only in his abuse.

1. Cutting (CAGHT STEALING)

• Year of release: 1
• Cast: Austin Butler, Zei Kravitz, Matt Smith, Bad Bani, Winst Danfrefo
• Rating on Ratt Tomos website: 1 out of 1

“Fun” is the last trait that comes to your mind with Darren Aronovsky’s films. While Cut Steeling cannot be seen as the traditional criminal stories in the style of al -Muror Lennard and Hemil Hemmat, it is undoubtedly the most entertaining film to date. Kat Steeling has no innovative story: a simple young man is caught in a fool and drowns in its darkness. But what is surprising in Cut Steeling is the line that Aronovsky brings to a seemingly smooth story. In the film, Austin Butler plays the role of Hank Thompson, who is involved in the competition of criminal gangs in New York and has resumed hell. Another fun wonder is that Aronowski can now make a historical work on the year that his first film was released that year!

Realism is what describes the first film and most of the first years of Darren Aronovsky. But in Kat Steeling, in a strange choice, Hank made a character on the ground, with trams and regrets that all look real, but is not so ready for the crime world that opening his foot into the darkness of this world remains a surreal experience. This exaggerated approach to the film allows the film to make the most of any unexpected event. Every shocking death, every nasty joke all is felt with the attractive performance of Austin Butler in the role of the former baseball star to the bone marrow.

Although Cata Steelers’ advertisements have been reduced to a crime popcorn film with nostalgia of the 1980s and attractive stars, the film goes the same darker way than expected with Darren Aronovsky’s films. Of course, Kat Steeling shows that Aronovsky’s understanding of his female characters is still incomplete, but the film is still a sign of Aronovsky’s evolution to the extent of directing that can make a fun studio work; Work that is inherently his own property; Not the result of producers and studios.

1. Fountain (The Fountain)

• Year of release: 1
• Cast: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weis, Ellen Bracetin
• Rating on Ratt Tomos website: 1 out of 1

After two sensitive and bold films, Aronovsky made his most ambitious and overwhelming professional film “Springs”. This was a project that survived many ups and downs; Aronovsky I was supposed to have a $ 5 million budget for the film; But after the film’s main stars, Brad Pitt and Kate Blanchett, withdrew from the project, Aronovsky was forced to rewrite his script for a more limited budget. But even the difficulties of making and defeating the box office did not prevent the popularity of “Fountain” among the fans of Darren Aronovsky’s films.

“Springs” is in conflict with the most complex narrative of Aronovsky’s work and simultaneously, emotionally the most straightforward film of his career. The film presents an epic study of spirituality, mythology, and a science-fiction fiction that examines the attempt to immortalize during the three critical periods of human history. But the strongest aspect of the film is the heavy burden and heartbreaking burden on Dr. Tommy Crave (Hugh Jackman) looking for a cure for his wife’s breast cancer (Rachel Weiss); The disease, which has a particle, kills the Izie to death.

The Kubrian symbolism and the influence of Spielberg on Aronovsky’s “Fountain” are quite clear and beautifully shows how humanity is essentially defined by fear of death. Of course, Aronovsky’s creativity in filming and computer -specific effects goes beyond the extent, making “Springs” a film of filmmaking technical magic. Thus, the narrative in the film “Springs” is of secondary importance.

If we were to talk about the rhythm of the film, it should be said that the story lines that take place in South 16th century and the depths of the galactic future are not as attractive as the marriage of a person that is going on between the characters of Jackman and Weiss; Aronovsky also feels more comfortable in directing this drama. Although there are stunning moments of the crushing of all three lines in the film, in terms of tone, these three are distinct that their glue and scissors have disrupted the film’s fit.

A movie like “Fountain” today can never be made; Because it requires audiences to open their hearts and souls to the film and engage in symbolism. Even similar ambitious films, such as “Interstellar” and “The Tree of Life,” Trance Melik, in front of Darren Aronovsky’s “Fountain”, remain traditional filmmaking. The masterpiece of the masterpiece may have fallen somewhere on the floor of the Aronovski editing room, but it has not been a long or longer version of the film. However, the same “spring” is also a unique work that has found its limited audience and has become more interesting for its shortcomings.

1. A Record for a Dream (Requiem for a Dream)

• Year of release: 1
• Cast: Jared Leto, Jennifer Conley, Ellen Brastin, Marlon Vince
• Rating on Ratt Tomos website: 1 out of 1

“A Record for a Dream” is Darren Aronovsky’s darkest and most challenging film, which has always been at the top of the most depressed films in history since its release. At the same time, it is a film that consolidated Aronovsky as a talented director between his co -authors. Aronovsky went on to adapt a novel from Hubert Selbi Jr. to the painful story, making it difficult or almost impossible to see again.

Aronovsky’s delusional and restless editing style has often been an obstacle to attracting audiences to his films, but “A Dream for a Dream” is a film that essentially requires the use of such unpleasant techniques. Unlike other decade films about drugs, such as “TrainSpotting” and “Fear and Loatiing in Las Vegas”, “A Record for a Dream” is a single stage of denying addiction, and has been a consequence of the consequences of personal choices.

“A Record for a Dream” abandons commonalities about addiction, so Aronovsky’s cruelty to his characters in the film does not appear to attract the audience. Characters such as Sarah Goldfarb (Ellen Burstin), Marion Silver (Jennifer Conley) and Tyron C. Lau (Marlon Vins) initially turns to drugs to escape the problems of their lives, but for years of drug abuse, they make the shadows of darkness of themselves once. Creative visual effects, hands -on camera, annoying images and special Aronovsky cuts help to visualize the nightmare in awakening. Clint Mansel’s soundtrack is also elaborate with this terrible nightmare, leading to a better representation of characters who never demonstrate their evolution.

As it often occurs in hyperlink cinema, “a rhetoric for a dream” is more effective in its entirety to divide it into separate sections. Until the final title, the mental disintegration and scrutiny that reaches your bone marrow, it is enough to distract a little out of the thick performance of Jared Leto and the fictional lines of the film (such as the Mafia Mafia case). However, the fame, or better to say, is still the “rhetoric for a dream” as a classic film “The Cell”; As far as this movie makes you so tragedy that it made it impossible to watch it again years later.

1. Pi (PI)

• Year of release: 1
• Cast: Sean Golt, Mark Margulus, Ben Shenkman
• Rating on Ratt Tomos website: 1 out of 1

Some filmmakers have only implemented a general design of their ideas, and in the pursuit of their professional path, they finally succeed in fulfilling this image. But Darren Aronowski didn’t wait for his second and third films to talk to him. He began his career with a thesis, a fully realized statement of obsessive -compulsive and psychosis that has so far prevailed his collection of works. “Pay” is a form in the form that you may easily ignore the dynamics of its narrative. Aronovsky creates a seemingly impenetrable protagonist with the character of Max Cohen (Sean Golt), which can be a genius or a full -fledged madman depending on your interpretation. This confirms the power of writing Aronovsky and the amazing game of Gullette who made Max a truly tragic character; The delicacies that are even tangible for viewers unfamiliar with these fictional designs.

Pi is in a world where the reality is distorted and seems to be mathematical theories, religious paranois, annoying illusions, psychological anxiety and plot’s illusions, all exist at the same time and give you the opportunity to experience the same despair and absurdity that Max experiences. Although the use of high contrast and black and white image could have been reduced to simple cinematic tricks, Aronovsky uses these unusual visual effects to emphasize Max’s efforts that seek logic in a seemingly irrational world. Even Mansel’s soundtrack, like a completely unique artwork, helps illustrate the ambiguities and default complexities of the film.

Aronovsky usually does not have a delicacy or compliment in showing trauma and lack. But in Pi, it shows more flexibility and gives more ways to interact with the viewer. Although the film is full of mathematical philosophy and historical interpretations of Judaism, but if you are looking for a psychological drama, you can find it in the film. Aronovsky later worked on much larger -scale films, but “Pay” is a sign that his works always and why that particular element of Darren Aronovsky.

2. Strong Black (Black Swan)

• Year of release: 1
• Cast: Natalie Portman, Vincent Kassel, Mila Conis, Vinona Reader
• Rating on Ratt Tomos website: 1 out of 1

Darren Arphonusky’s biggest commercial success, which also raised critics, is one of his most personal films at the same time. “Wish to achieve perfection” basically define the aronovski protagonists, with a reflection of the director’s own approach; Because he goes to the film with a great care and precision. What is the value of sacrifice to achieve high art and what changes must be taken to achieve perfection? These are the questions that Aronovsky probably asked himself one time. These are the questions that make it an influential film at the heart of the “Black Strong” narrative.

Nina (Natalie Portman) in “Black Strong” (which stays in the Lives of Mima from “Perfect Blue”) is a young ballerin who dedicated her whole life to ballet; Even if his main source of motivation was his mother’s perfectionism (Barbara Hershi). In a frustrating combination of folk and psychological horror, Nina is not only forced to perform the “Swan Lake”, but also to play a key role that must simultaneously pull out the inherent innocence and deep darkness. There is no doubt that Nina leaves all her existence; But Aronovsky raises the question of who is looking for the expectations for perfection in search of perfection? To prove himself to others, Nina goes into the darker part of her existence and exhibits anger and frustration that is the result of years of judgment.

Al -Haq, who deserved the Oscar -winning Award, who won; Not only because of the difficulties of dancing ballet, but because of his commitment to fulfilling the fulfillment of a character in Darren Aronovsky. Even if the ballet is merely a context for Aronovski, in which he expresses his more comprehensive ideas about art and ambition, he shows a great respect for this art. Especially since “Black Strong” and Ballet art basically deal with the concept of duality and fragility, which is inherent in this art. Even the most annoying black black moments are somehow poetic; Because, the film never stops to explain its inner logic to viewers.

“Black strong” is like a great, shocking, astonishing, emotionally and melodrama, and nails you with a magnificent ending; Therefore, it is not surprising that it is always among the best psychological horror films. While Darren Aronowski has never been popular with his films to justify his films, the popularity of the “strong black” is for his film-based film.

1. The Wrestler (The Wrestler)

• Year of release: 1
• Cast: Mickey Rork, Merissa Toma, Ivan Rachel Wood, Ernest Miller
• Rating on Ratt Tomos website: 1 out of 1

It is not strange that Darren Aronovsky’s best film is a drama about a suffering artist who has missed a mistake in a profession and has lost any hope of salvation. After the commercial disaster caused by the film “Fountain”, Aronovsky returned to its roots with an independent personality drama (with only $ 5 million). Mickey Rork plays the role of an isolated and quiet star in the wrestler who has faded out of people. Although the “wrestler” was released when WWE had become new audiences because of the star of Dwayne Johnson and John Sina, Aronovsky went to a dark view of the professional ship. Regardless of how real WWE is, it cannot be denied that the sport abandons its stars with wounds that do not heal and the stars are quickly abandoned as soon as a few failures.

The lack of style in the wrestler, both compared to the previous films, and compared to the image of a professional wrestling in the media, is something that gives the film a distinguishing element. Instead of focusing on the accuracy of the stuntman, the wrestler makes a careful and annoying look at the hardships that someone like Robin Ramsin Mickey Rork provides their body. Randy/Rome has become a memoir, a nostalgic champion of another period that is easily ignored. It is not just the memories of success that annoys Randy, but the awareness of all the things he had to sacrifice for a few moments. The similarities of this film to Mickey Rork’s own way is another brilliant aspect of the “wrestler”. Given that Cambodia Rork had a short life to the cinema, it must be confessed to Aronovsky’s miracle that he was able to get such an impact and impact.

Although the religious veins of Aronovsky’s earlier works are somewhat diminished in the “wrestler”, the film examines a different form of spirituality in the form of professional wrestlers. Randy may have been a depressed, defeated man who even drove his daughter (Ivan Rachel Wood), but the moment he goes to the ring, we believe for a moment, he is a hero; Or even beyond the hero, like Christ itself; As Kasidi says (Marisa Tomi).

Although the “wrestler” provides an analysis of the psychological injuries that WWE wrestlers suffer, the film is strangely a more accurate picture of the inherent instability of capitalism than any film that came in. The film was filmed before the financial crisis of the year, but the fear of losing a one -over -life in the film’s essence is in every one of the moments of “wrestler”.

The horror depicted in the wrestler is as shocking as “strong black” and is as annoying as “a rhetoric for a dream”, and at the same time, it can empathize the viewer for the hero of the story that makes it unique to the director’s other films. Aronovsky does not want to make the champion Randy, but he wants to explain how he is so dependent on the profession that broken him from inside and outside. Although the film “The Wrestler” is not as much as expected by Darren Aronovsky, or as the sports films are expected, it tells the story of real people with real flames and perseverance. Although most of the most vague and extreme attributes apply to Aronovsky films, it is an unexpectedly wrestler that shows Aronovski among all his other works of his career in his most honest and humane state.

Source: Paste Magazine