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...is always the up or downside to it. For example if you buy a lottery ticket the up side you may win, the down side you may waste a lot of money. If you do drugs the downside you may lose everything you have including your life to get more drugs.
Requiem for a Dream is a dark but straight to the point film about drug addiction and how drugs will change your life and make you do thing to keep getting more. It tells parallel stories that are linked together. One is Harry (Jared Leto) who doesn't have a job but has a place; all he does is get high with his best friend Tyrone C. Love (Marlon Wayans).
But it is getting hard for them to get their next fix with no money so they hatch up a plan. They will become major drug dealers but it is harder then they thought because it harder to sell the drugs if you are using the product. Harry goes home to tell the good news about his business to his mother but he sees she has her own drugs problem.
For Sara Goldfurb (Ellen Burstyn) Life is getting bad for her. She is a widow, her son is grown and movie out she lives all alone and all she does is watching TV (only one show on TV). So one day she gets a call from a company that get people to go on games shows.
He tells her she will be on a game show so she goes to the doctor to se about losing
weight. The doctor prescribes her diet pills so takes them and hopes she lose weight the only problem is she get addicted to them and becomes a die-hard addict. Did I mention Harry has a girlfriend named Marion (Jennifer Connelly) who is, you guess it, a drug addict? Over the course, you will see the effects drugs have on their lives until the disturbing end.
Darren Aronofsky adapted by the 1978 novel by author Hubert Selby directs Requiem for a Dream. And I have to say this is one of the darkest yet most powerfully film I have seen so far this year. This is the type of...
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