Amazing truly amazing, drug watchers look out...

Rating: 9/10 (18 February 2006)

Requiem For a Dream, supposedly a movie about drug abuse, which I thought was going to be yet again another big bore.After enduring it, I found out, that I was totally in love with it. A story about a family, which gets totally destroyed with the effects of drugs.
The movie starts off with a boy dragging the TV, giving it out on rent for some immediate need for cash, literally forcing his mother in doing so. We find out that his need fro money is nothing but drugs. We find out that the mother gets a call to be on TV on a popular TV show, so she starts thinning out, by taking drugs. Eventually we find out that the boy needs more money for drugs so he forces his girlfriend to have sex with another man for cash. When the drugs run out, the boy and his mate travel to la to get new stocks, when they get arrested for drug trafficking, and the boy gets his amputated because his hand got way too much infected, Connelly becomes a full time whore and the motehr is admitted to a mental institution.
The movie is very moving with some excellent camera work and a mind blowing score. a true masterpiece, this should be rated even a bit more, deserves to be in the top 20 if not the top 10....