A dark addiction film that shows how propaganda, lust, and substance sells and will control one's life!

Rating: 9/10 (12 April 2014)

If you watch the films of Darren Aronofsky you know that they are dark and often about how life can be tragic and often near the end or on the way out. And I finally watched this classic cult gem "Requiem for a Dream" and this film is indeed gritty and dark as it shows how the themes and issues of media propaganda, culture, lust, and substance abuse can control and overtake life as we know it. Set in the depressed area along the abandoned beaches of the Coney Island in New York you have a lonely widow in the legendary Ellen Burstyn who all she lives for is to watch TV in her apartment as the info salesman is selling more and more on her as it will take her wallet and her soul. Along with that her son Harry(in one of Jared Leto's first roles)is a drug addict as he lives for a heroin needle to be stuck in his arm and his buddy Tyrone(Marlon Wayans) is the king street dealer who helps supply it all. To round out the trio is Harry's girlfriend Marion(Jennifer Connelly)who will sell her body with lust for drugs, money or any favor she can get. This is a film that shows people with no hope will gain happiness thru addiction, yet it showcases just how powerful addiction in the form of media propaganda, substance abuse, and selling the body can overtake one's life. Overall this is a dark and powerful satire of addiction that one must see.