Requiem for a Dream

After couple of years putting the movie in aside for watching in the future, finally decided to go and see the movie. IMDB has the full film online for free (see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/)

The movie is shockingly direct and shoots down to the deepest fears of the drugs can do to a man and everything he holds dear: family, woman he loves, dreams and desires that are making him different from the crowd. I had read about the met addiction, but I have never been aware of the fact that it's been used in medical practice to treat excessive weight et al.

The music by Kronos Quartet and Clint Mansell is very very good.

The movie is different from Trainspotting by Danny Boyle. The latter is built on the striking contrast between the sardonic approach by the main characters and the what is actually happening with their lives (death of the infant, death of friends etc).

I wish the Requiem for a Dream can be on he screen in the high schools as the anti-drug flick, but R-rating won't probably permit it.