I have a serious problem with this movie.

Rating: 10/10 (14 July 2003)

Warning: long winded, incoherent, and maybe some spoilers as well.
I have never done drugs before, but that does not matter. This movie is not drugs. If anything, this movie is about obsession. Marlon Wayons needs to be important, Jared Leto wants everyone else to be happy, Jennifer Connelly craves sensation, and Ellen Burstyn yearns for attention. The drugs are merely a means to an end.
The saddest aspect of this movie is the fact that you will try hard to deny the possibility of the events in it, but you can not. This could be reality for someone. Anyone who does not believe that only needs to watch the news. "Woman hits man, drives home with him in the windshield, and leaves him in the garage to die. Every once in a while peeking in to say that she is sorry." "Man molests eleven year old girl in department store. He dressed as a security guard and took her to a remote area, when too many people came to that area, he found another and molested her a second time." "Grandmother poisons granddaughter, because she felt that she wasn't being paid enough attention by the child's parents. The woman put large amounts of sugar into the baby's formula and escaped before she could be captured. The child had a seizure and died."
With these kinds of events happening daily, this movie's realism is in question. Why would Harry not go to the hospital if his arm was infected? Why would they get arrested for finally going to the hospital? Why didn't Sara just eat? Your answer is always the same, HOLLYWOOODIZATION! That would never happen in real life. I would never do that. One day in high school, a friend of mine got into a fight and shouted "I don't want to deal with any more of this petty high school bulls**t!" I remember thinking, welcome to the real world, where people do anything and everything to hurt themselves and each other. It is not possible that Harry hoped it would go away, or wanted to help everyone else before himself, or that he did not even think about it at all. The doctor in the hospital took the medicine out of the room that Harry was in. He probably called the police to tell them that junkies came to steal from the hospital. As for Sara I haven't a clue, but I still can not figure out what went through those people's heads from the headlines above. Does that make them any less real?
I like this movie, because I can relate to it. Sara reminds me of my mother and I am almost dead on Harry. I knew some Marions and Tyrones in school. For me this movie is all too real.