Powerful and brutally true to life.

Rating: 10/10 (19 April 2002)

This movie is powerful. Strong and complex. Holy s***, this movie is intense!! Even for me, a person who needs to see a lot in order to be impressed, I was astounded by what I saw here. This movie is graphic and very, very potent. Strong and thick. This is like trying to stir a bucket of rock-hard concrete. You will pass out after the viewing of this film, if I didn't have such a strong heart, I actually might have. I was that impressed. PLOT: *POSSIBLE SPOILERS* This film follows four residents of New York's Coney Island district as they all try to overcome their addictions to different types of drugs and maintain a life of happiness. But everything soon turns on them as their live plummet into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching free-fall. There is Harry (Jared Leto) and his girlfriend (Jennifer Connelly) and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) and his mother (Ellen Burstyn). All four of these actors were great. I was very impressed with Marlon Wayans. I was pleased that he could actually do a serious role after portraying a delightfully silly character in SCARY MOVIE. This movie is a landmark in film making. Never before has there been such an intense film. I was blown away. Ellen Burstyn should have won some sort of Oscar here. Best Actress for sure. Jared Leto was also great as Harry who tries hard to make his relationship work out. This is one intense, !INTENSE! movie. They might aswell list this one as a horror picture because it is so factual and horrifyingly real. REQUIEM FOR A DREAM: 5/5.