This film was 'sold to me' at the time as amazing by a friend who I think wanted to teach me a lesson. I watched this film with a friend and to start it was all good fun and giggles but by the end of it we were literally speechless.... Ignoring the fact that it's imaculately acted and made I give it ten stars purely for the impact it had on me as a person, how it made me 'feel' and the intensity of those feelings and how they have lasted with me for literally EVER! It's a scary film teaching a valuable lesson....

What an amazing soundtrack? And that's about that. The rest of the movie is a mix dodging my friend cringing next to me. It was awful to watch. Against all my better judgement I was able to finish this movie. With me living in a country with horrible things happening everyday to so many people this portrays that in a romanticized and dramatized fashion. Nothing happening in this movie is romantic or drama.

You will find it very very hard to connect to this movie if you have never been a drug user. Even if you were able to connect, you will probably be thinking about what you used to thinjk when the drugs hit you hard rather than following the movie.

Jared Leto plays Harry, a junkie who, along with pal Tyrone (Marlon Wayans), hopes to make a killing buying drugs and reselling it on the streets; meanwhile, Harry's mother Sara (Ellen Burstyn) becomes dependent on uppers in a bid to lose weight ready for an appearance on a TV game show. As time passes, Harry winds up with an infected arm, his girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) resorts to prostituting herself for her next fix, his mum goes completely loopy, and Tyrone ends up in prison.I understand that, having graduated from film school, a young director will be keen to show off some of what they have learnt. In Requiem for a Dream, Darren Aronofsky goes all out, chucking in everything including the kitchen sink. Not one second goes by without a 'cool' film-making technique being thrust in the viewers face, whether it be split screen, time lapse, rapid repetitive editing, or Snorricam. It's all there, to such an extent that it pulls the viewer out of the film, as opposed to immersing them (which I believe was the intention).Aronofsky is so enamoured with his clever visual trickery that he neglects to develop his characters beyond the basics or tell a decent story beyond the bleeding obvious: that drugs are bad.