Requiem for a Dream

December 10, 2000

Here are a stream of words to describe Requiem for a Dream: disturbing. sickening. wonderful. scary. engaging. nauseating. disturbing. smart. important. amazing. beautiful. loud. enveloping. disturbing.

I recommend you go see it if you like to be disturbed. Not scared, but disturbed. It is an in-your-face look at the life of drug addicts and not like Drug Store Cowboy, Kids or Trainspotting, but much more real. You knew that there were lives like this that lacked glamour and beautiful women doing drug in a posh apartment in NYC or London or Silicon Valley. For all these reasons, I really liked this movie. I think that it should be screened in every health class in every high school across the country. EVERYONE would think twice before getting into drugs.

I just realized that this was the first movie that really let you understand what goes through a junkie's head. This is something I cannot explain because you didn't see the movie (or you did and I need not explain). The moral of this tale is that this is a thought provoking, frightening perfect film.

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