The images will stay with you

Rating: 8/10 (24 July 2001)

I found this movie to be deeply disturbing. Artistic, beautiful, thoughtful--and yet--replete with pure horror. There are many layers of intensity and stress, and at times it is almost too much to take. It is a shame that a film like this wasn't in the place of "Traffic" as I believe they are both showing a *user* side of drugs--"Requiem" is just 100 times more powerful and provides an unsmugded picture of the gruesome reality of addiction (be it TV, weight-loss, prescription drugs, heroin...).
"Requiem for a Dream" is not for the light hearted. If you have caught your kids using drugs and want to scare them, I would show them this film.