Some people may think that all movies about drugs are the same, they show one person, going through this addiction and can't do anything about it blahblah, but the movie Requiem For a Dream by Darren Aronofsky, not only shows the physical problems, he shows it all. He manages to show the feelings, the love, hate, desire, and willingness these people have for the drugs they believe they need to survive. This movie fallows four major characters, Harry Goldfarb, Harry’s mother Sara Goldfarb, Harry’s girlfriend Marion Silver, and Harry’s best friend Tyrone C. Love. You fallow Harry, Marion, and Tyrones "get rich fast" scream by selling drugs, when really what there is doing is getting further and further into addiction. Aronofsky is able not only to show you the physical aspect of these characters addictions, but also the mental addictions.
The film starts out in Sara Goldfarbs apartment, where Harry once again is there steeling his mothers TV so he can pawn the TV and get money for his next fix. There's nothing she can do to stop Harry, he’s her only child, her little baby, and just wants him to be happy. after Sara goes gets her TV back from the pawn shop she gets a call on the telephone from a TV station saying she’s gonna be on TV! She’s so excited she goes and pulls her Red Dress out of the closet, the one she wore to Harry’s graduation (that she looked so good in) but doesn’t fit, and decides to go to the doctor so she can lose weight so she can fit into her red dress. Soon enough after getting these diet pills from her doctor (which were actually uppers) she starts to have problems with addiction of her own, and doesn’t even see what’s happening to her son. Aronofsky is able to show the pain these characters are going through, he shows you how hard it is to fight addiction, with an amazing artistic visuals all throughout the movie.
The review done by Roger Ebert (Chicago sun-times), dose an amazing job in my opinion explaining what is so amazing about this movie. He talks about the characters and what they are going through so well. I also enjoy this review because not only dose he talk about the movie its self, but all the ways Aronofsky uses editing, and camera to make this movie even more spectacular. He also gives you a good description of the movie, so you know just from reading the begging of the review what the movies going to be about.
I HIGHLY recommend this movie for people to see, unless you don’t like movies that go into grate detail about drug usage, and that is quit graphic. It shows the trued side to addiction and drugs, and shows the characters perspective of what life really is, but isn’t at the same time. go out and rent this movie, they have it at blockbuster, and i highly doubt that you will regret spending that 3.99 to see it.
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