Disturbing movie

Rating: 7/10 (2 July 2012)

This was an excellent film. If you like propaganda.
For your drug education you will learn: ===> Drugs will give a sweet high for a short time ===> You believe you can do anything!!! (on drugs) ===> And you will do ANYTHING -for drugs (yes, even that) ===> Drugs will take (over) your life and destroy your dreams ===> Drugs will leave you writing in pain in the fetal position ===> There are no happy endings for those on drugs
I watched this back in 2001 (NC-17 version). Recently I re-watched the last ten minutes (darn youtube). The film making, the quick cuts, the close ups, the integrated stories, the escalating music score, Jennifer Connelly's beauty and Keith David's gaping teeth as living props: this is superior film making. Every trick in the book was used, and it worked without seeming contrived. Aronofsky was a genius at creating that intense trapped drug feeling for the audience. The intense fear I felt was real. I was doomed and I won't/don't do drugs! I hated what I felt at the end of this movie. I don't think I'll ever watch this film again.
If the object of this movie was to scare the holy crap out of me- it worked. It also led me to believe that when a close family member was an addict, there was no answer. They would simply be a struggling addict, forever. Not true!!!
===> There are happy endings. Don't do drugs or get help.
If this is a lie that tells the truth, I want the whole truth.