Requiem for a Dream studies the various types of addictions in life

Rating: 7/10 (16 September 2010)

This cult film got recognized and reached mainstream success thanks to great performances from Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans, and Jennifer Connelly. It is a very controversial movie which deals with drug addiction in a very crude and realistic manner. The director was not afraid of tackling the issue of drug addiction and presenting it in a raw manner. The different kinds of addictions are addressed as you have a lot of sniffing, injecting, and coke dealing on the one hand, and medical prescript weight pills on the other hand so the different kind of addictions are addressed here and yes the medical drug pills are considered as equally addictive and harmful as the rest. At the end they both can have devastating results and the director tackles these issues. The film is very original and has several interesting filming sequences which just add to the overall mood of the movie giving it a more realistic and crude vision as do the dream sequences and hallucinations. At first it might seem as the movie is going nowhere if not paid attention too but at the end every sequence adds up to the mood of the film creating a crude and real film sending out a mirror message of the effects that drug addiction has. The movie succeeds in that the viewer experiences the hallucinations and the effects of the drugs and it pulls us in to a world many of us perhaps never have experienced.