BODIES IN PAIN

The films of Darren Aronofsky invite emotional engagement by means of affective resonancebetween the film and the spectators lived body.Aronofskys films are often considered cerebral because they explore topics likemathematics, madness, hallucinations, obsessi ons, social anxiety, addiction, psychosis,schizophrenia, and neuroscience. Yet this interest in intelligence and mental processes is deeply embedded in the operations of the body, shared with the spectator by means of adistinctively corporeal audiovisual style.