This is no dream--it's a two hour long nightmare. Requiem for a Dream is a believable, well-acted drug movie and one of the few effective ones. This will surely resonate with you for maybe even the rest of your life.
Requiem for a Dream is four stories of drug addiction. Jared Leto plays a cocaine addicted Harry Goldfarb and commonly uses with his friend, played by Marlon Wayans in a good non-comedy performance, and his girlfriend played by Jenifer Connelly. The best of the four is of Sara Goldfarb, Harry's mother, who gets addicted to dieting pills. Ellen Burstyn was nominated, but should have won, for an Academy award for her performance.
Darren Aronofsky's direction is cinematic perfection. The movie, which includes 2,000 cuts (a normal movie includes 600-700), is trippy and scary and he manages to achieve these feelings well. Aronofsky makes a good use of the split-screen, which often comes off as a bad 70's movie. His surreal imagery and strong directorial command give this film even more abberance and disturbing material.
You won't do drugs after this movie. I'm sure. Why would you ever touch drugs after the harrowing finale? The infamous "ass to ass" scene, which may only be available in the NC-17 cut but I'm not sure, is disgusting and gross and all the other images as well. It is a swirl of images that nobody wants to see. This film should be shown in Health classes all around the world. I'm convinced there would be less drug use.
Just a few little side notes--Lux Aeterna is possibly one of the best scores in a movie ever. Isn't strange how they don't say anything about pot?
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