Flippin Awesome

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2007)

DRUGS. SEX. VIOLENCE. DECAPITATED ARM. Requiem For A Dream is one of my newest favorite movies. Whoa this film was kick ass. It starred Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, and Jared Leto, yes that's Jared Leto from 30 Seconds To Mars, he was an actor before he became a musician, usually that means that he would be bad at one or the other but I like 30STM and Jared is a superb actor especially in this movie. Harry and his partner/friend, Tyrone have a plan to make it big in the heroin business. Unfortunately, their recreational drug use turns into day-to-day addiction, and things start to get ugly. REALLY ugly. Ellen Burstyn plays Harry's Ma Sarah, a lonely widow who wants to lose weight to fit into a red dress so she can appear on her favorite television show. She starts out by being addicted to TV and candy, but goes to a "doctor" who gives her RX for diet pills but they actually turn out to be speed. The four pills a day eventually don't become enough for her and she starts going crazy, I mean CRAZY. She thinks her refrigerator is trying to get her she sees people coming out of the television. Because the paper telling her when she's going to be on television never comes in the mail she goes out searching for the TV station, at this point in the movie she is tore up, big time. Someone calls the cops to come and get her and she is put into a mental hospital where they perform crazy experimental therapy on her. So basically her life is ruined. While all of that is happening Harry, Tyrone, and Harry's girlfriend Marion are trying to make it "big." They don't. They get doped up all the time and can't make rational decisions so all the money the have been saving up has been spent. They can't make it "big." Marion starts to become a little bitch and starts yelling at Harry because they're out of money and can't get high anymore so she decided since Harry can't provide for her anymore she'll just go suck this guy's cock for some moolah. Her life is ruined. At this time Harry and Tyrone are on their way to Miami because Tyrone thinks they'll make it "big" there. On their way down to Miami Harry's arm becomes more and more infected from improperly injecting heroin and he continues to inject heroin in to the pus filled arm. Finally Tyrone decides to take Harry to the doctor; well they do this in some redneck town where the doctor calls the cops rather than helping Harry. So Tyrone and Harry are now in jail with no one to help them. You think it can't get worse but, bam! Harry collapses and the officers are forced to take him to the hospital. His whole arm is black and purple and the injection site is bubbled up and orange, it was sick but cool. Then they show an over view of everyone else's lives and how they're ruined and when they come back to Harry he wakes up in a hospital and doesn't have a left arm. DRUGS RUIN YOUR LIFE BIG TIME. Funny and Sad Movie.