video - requiem for a dream..

Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you're hooked, you're hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Doing their best to succeed in the world, but failing miserably, four people get hooked on various drugs. Despite their aspirations of greatness, they succumb to their addictions. Watching the addicts spiral out of control, we bear witness to the dirtiest, ugliest portions of the underworld addicts reside in. It is shocking and eye-opening but demands to be seen by both addicts and non-addicts alike.

Requiem for a Dream exposes four individuals and their addiction to heroin, cocaine, and diet pills (speed). Taking place in Brooklyn , the drugs are very easily obtained and keep each main character in its cycle of dependence. The protagonist Harry Goldfarb is your typical heroin junky with an ambitious plan of "Getting off hard knocks," with help from his cocaine crazed girlfriend Marion and his long time friend Tyrone. Meanwhile his mother is obsessed with the glamor of television and eventually finds her way to a dietitian who pushes her into the cycle of daily pills.

A film about the lives of Sara Goldfarb, a lonely, TV obsessed widow, and her son Harry, his girlfriend Marion, and his drug dealer friend Tyrone. After learning that she will make an appearance on a TV game show, Sara tries to lose weight so that she can fit into her prized red dress, and becomes hooked on diet pills. Meanwhile, Harry and his friends are taking heroin and cocaine. We then witness the consequences as a result of their addictions.

The film depicts the lives of four different people living in Brooklyn on their quest for satisfaction in life. It shows the direct and indirect effects that drugs and various addictions have on each of the individuals, and then goes from the hopes of dreams into the helpless state of moral and physical decay.

This is the first film that I have seen that really shows how drugs can seperate us from ourselves, and that we should be more aware with framacy drugs that are easy to obtain but can cause great damage if not taken with responsability