A warning for all illusion lovers!

Rating: 10/10 (1 July 2012)

I watched "Requiem for a dream" at the end of last year just because I had seen Jared Leto's name in the cast and the movie is a drama. So, at first I didn't expect it will be such a powerful and impressing movie. I was passing through a bad period of my life, I had a different kind of addiction ( not drugs or things like that, I was addicted to a person and this is as well a very dangerous addiction). Of course that when you build your dreams on fictive bases nothing works at last and you'll find yourself drowning in despair. I had the chance to taste a bit of this failure, of course that not in such a tragical way as this movies's main characters did.
I think it will remain one of those few movies that I will never forget till I die. Marion and Harry, two young people with dreams and hopes for the future lose almost everything for the sake of drugs. Their addiction transforms them into shells void of purpose. But what impressed me the most was that even drowned in misery, their love to each other was the only thing that kept them alive, the only thing that humanized them. I mean, from all other points of view they became only some lame animals controlled by their instinct of getting drugs, but love saved their souls somehow, if this was possible.
After all I don't think the message of the movie is the common: "DON'T DO DRUGS!". No! It's way more than that. "Requiem for a dream" represents a real warning for all illusion lovers, for all the people who avoid the real world to flee into a feigned one!