Could scare anyone Sober...

Rating: Null/10 (1 June 2001)

My brother recommended this movie to me, and one day as I was buying Traffic, I realized I had some extra cash and decided to take the risk of buying a movie I'd never seen.
It was like putting down a million dollars on black 28 playing roulette and the ball actually landing on black 28.
I saw "Pi" when I was less mature and not as into movies, so I didn't really have a great expectations of Aronofsky's "Requiem for a Dream," but as I started watching, I realized that what I was getting was amazing.
"Requiem" is one of those movies where you actually start to feel the characters. I actually began to feel the pain that Harry (Jared Leto) experienced in this movie. The film was exhausting to watch, but it was a good exhausting. Something that you look forward to when you're seeing a movie for the first time.
Lately, as we've come into the age of movies that are set out to just entertain, and not set out to express someone's art, I've become a little disillusioned at film. There are certainly films that are great, wonderful even, but it's not often that you get a film that means something. A film that makes you think about it, and makes you think about your own life.
This movie achieves that and then some. See Requiem for a Dream right away, but make sure that you're in the mood to watch a movie that you could scare you by using reality. You must not go into this movie with the idea that you're seeing a movie like "Blow" where the ups and downs of drugs are pure entertainment.
Watch this movie, and think.