OMG

Rating: 1/10 (14 December 2003)

Do not see this movie if you don't want to be haunted by it for the rest of your life. It really should be called requiem for a nightmare.

It involves the nightmare situation of poor people who do drugs. It is scary beyond belief and just so, so, so, sad. The whole family (such as it is) gets torn apart. The men and women in this movie have no power in the world, and their little fling with drugs costs them everything.
Also the scene with the mother and doctor is a good example of the current scourge of doctors who just don't give a hoot about their poor patients. The inhumanity of man is pretty obvious in this movie because there is NOONE willing to help any of these people out of their plight, even though in some cases it would be pretty easy for some of these characters to help these people.
The way that these people were mistreated in this film is what is the most disturbing of all. Many of the characters surrounding these characters could have tried to help them, and the characters themselves could have done more to try and help themselves but they weren't strong enough for some reason. And the cruelty of the police, the ex-boyfriend and the doctor were just appalling.