A powerful punch in the stomach

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2010)

Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream is one of the movies that would never win an Oscar(just like American History X e.t.c)for obvious reasons.
It is about four people located in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn;Sara Goldfarb and her son Harry,his girlfriend Marion and their friend Tyrone.Sara is an ordinary housekeeper-widow who's only pleasure in life is her television while her son Harry as well as his girlfriend Marion as well as Tyrone is a drug addict.One day Sara is informed that she will be a guest in her favorite TV show and starts thinking how she will be looking as great as possible,and because she cannot stand taking up a diet,she starts taking "special" pills in order to become as thin as she was young.Harry,Marion and Tyrone are organizing a plan in order to get money and their fix while in the back of their mind is the hope to quit drugs.As the days go by and Sara is not being called to appear in the show,she increases her fix and becomes an addict .Harry and Tyrone are suffering because they can't get their fix and are forcing Marion to become a kind of prostitute in order to be able to buy drugs.In the end Sara gets totally insane and is being closed in a clinic,Marion is being dragged in an inhumane world of total degradation and humiliation in order to get her fix,Harry and Tyrone are being closed in jail and Harry loses his hand due to Gangrene.
The acting is perfect,the direction is one of the most innovational,pioneering yet amazing seen in cinema's history and the messages are more than the movies' industry would prefer... To sum up this movie is one of the most dramatic and sensation films of all time and the worst of them all;it does happen in the real world each and every day...