REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (FILM)

Requiem for a Dream is a 2000 film adaptation of the 1978 novel of the same name. The novel was written by Hubert Selby, Jr.; the film adaptation was directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starred Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, and Marlon Wayans. Burstyn was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.

The Plot is this:

The film charts three seasons in the lives of mother and son SarA and Harry Goldfarb, Harry’s girlfriend Marion Silver, and Harry’s friend Tyrone C. Each character is ultimately destroyed by addiction and self-delusion.

The story begins in summer. Sara Goldfarb, an elderly widow living alone in her Brighton Beach apartment, spends her time watching infomercials on television. After a phone call announces that she will be invited to attend a live taping of a television show, she becomes obsessed with matching her appearance to a photograph from her son Harry's graduation, her proudest moment.

Meanwhile, Harry is an irresponsible heroin addict. Together with his friend Tyrone and his girlfriend Marion, the group enters the drug trade in an attempt to realize their dreams.

With winter comes the final of their lifes. Sara completely crazy becomes hospitalized, where she has to doelectro shock therapy.

Harry is completely dependent of the drugs and he has to be hospitalizated and the doctors have to cut their arm because of the heroin.

Tyron is arrested and put in prison.

And harr's girlfriend has to be a prostitute for gets the money which later she will buy new drugs.



This amazing film gives a perspective of the actual and modern world of the drugs. I recommend you to watch it.