See this movie.

Requiem for a Dream is perhaps the most brutally honest movie I have seen. It shows how drug addiction can ruin your life,and the depths people go to to get high one more time.

After I saw it my gut was feeling uneasy and my mind was dazed.The movie is near faultless.The 4 principals deliver the performances of their lifetime and Darren Aronofsky has declared that he is here to stay.

The Score is what echoed on and on in my head even as I was about to sleep..it is haunting ,melodious and ensures that the film stays with for longer than you want it to.The ironic thing is that these young protagonists are at an age where they can do anything they want with their lives. However,their entry into the world of drug addiction is not gone into...they start out as junkies willing to pawn even their mothers television for some cash.

Jared Leto is near perfect,as is Jennifer Connelly as the spoilt rich kid who is Leto's love interest.Marlon Wyans gives an amazing performance as Leto's friend and fellow junkie.But the movie belongs to Ellen Burstyn.As Leto's widowed mother with nothing to hold on to but the vague promise of appearing on a television programme,a person who is so obsessed with becoming thin so that she can wear the red dress she loves so much(which she also wore to her son's high school graduation) which doesn't seem to fit her anymore,and who falls prey to prescription amphetamines,she is amazing.Her harrowing transition to a lonely widow to a schizophrenic drug addict is perfect,and I think that for a performance like that she should have gotten the Oscar Award for Best Supporting Actress,which sadly she didn't.

I think everybody should see this movie once.It should also be part of the therapy for drug addicts who want to quit. Because this is one movie that has the potential to make them. It shows the world of bright young adults being transformed into a nightmare becasue they want to get high.The hazards of i.v drug use and the seedy world of prostitution is also delved into.But the love that Leto and Connelly share is demolished into a mere parasitic relationship where one is dependent on the other for money and drugs.

See it once even if you don't watch movies regularly.

Take Care.