Desire make people blindness. And what is all about of feeling of emptiness.

Rating: 8/10 (22 March 2009)

It was a film with mystic force that made me stared at from the beginning when I started to watch. The story is a quite simple that two stories are running parallel to go for drug and become addicted. Main characters are four actors: Harry (Jared Leto) & his mother Sara (Ellen Burstyn), Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly), his friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans). Harry and Tyrone earn their living on the drug and theft and Harry is getting to become addicted to drugs with his girlfriend Marion. I like a scene that Harry and Marion are laying down talking their love, which is a very fantastic scene in this film. Although they are talking drugs, there exists something true and pure sense of love between them; he loves his girlfriend the best in the world and make the most of every minutes with their love. This scene would emphasize the last half that drugs break up their relationship.
On the other hand, Harry's mother Sara starts dieting since she got an odd call that she can appear on the TV. She tried to diet as much as possible she can. She starts relying on medicine for a diet before long and she often sundown that she appears on the TV or see the fridge shaking due to extreme diet or starving.
The ending is in the depth of without the beacon of the hope. It may be easier to guess in this kind of drug story but still suffer from feeling of emptiness and kind of helpless feeling after watched this film. But I'd say this is a great movie at the same time.
Ellen Burstyn, being 70-year-old shows an amazing portrayal who make her life change from a common life to become a drug addict and have to be in a drug rehabilitation. Also Jennifer Connelly's play, become a drug addict, quarrel with his boyfriend Harry, have a sex scene for getting drugs, this her devoting work worth seeing.