REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

This is one of the most shocking films that I have ever seen
because everything on the movie could happen in real life.
“REQUIEM FOR A DREAM” is not only one story, is a composition about different characters’ life. The main topic is the addiction. From drugs to medicines, from the hobby to the necessity. The feeling of cannot live without that bad thing. The movie is so real that it seems that you’re living those experiences, that you’re feeling that.

When the film starts, the main characters are three friends: a couple and a black boy, they’re young. They’re all on drugs, in every kind of drugs.
At the same time they sell drugs, but before the sell they need money to can but them. So, they’re always stealing things from Harry’s mum (the boy of the couple). They usually steal the TV, the most important thing for the woman.
Television is the only friend of this old woman, because she’s alone since her husband died. The woman is addicted to a TV program about feeding and how to lose weight. Her dream is visit some day that program.

At the beginning everything was quite calm. Well, the young characters were on drugs and were drug dealers. But in that moment they hoped to have one day a better life.
At the same time, the old woman, always worried about her son, received a call from that TV program. They wanted her on television!!! She couldn’t believe it, but finally she decided to go to the doctor and ask for help to lose weight. The doctor prescribed her some pills. She had pills in four colours: one for breakfast, one for lunch, one for dinner and one at night. Pink, blue, green and yellow pills. They would help her to look as thin as when she was thirty or forty years old. The motivation of this was her obsession to wear a little red dress that she dressed a lot of years ago, but now, she couldn’t wear it in any way.

Things are not so easy, and everything is getting more and more complicated.
The young boys lost a lot of money and they were mad to get more drugs. The lack of drugs made them do terrible things: the couple was always having argument, so Harry decided to go away with his friend to get drugs and change their life with the money that they hoped to earn. Harry had a terrible and infected injury in his arm, but he continued giving himself injections of heroin. The injury was dark red and black, and it was very painful for him. His girlfriend, desperate, tried to escape from drugs but she couldn’t. She lost herself in the world of prostitution.

Harry’s mum was losing a lot of pounds with her pills, but her body never was enough good to her. So, she started to take two or three pills every time. At the beginning everything was alright, but on few days she started to imagine things, to hear strange noises from her fridge and to see how her TV and her furniture moved to hurt her.
She was going crazy, and the blame of that was hr obsession for the weight.

She couldn’t get herself control anymore; a terrible illness was destroying her mind: she was a schizophrenic. She was always obsessed with television and one day she went out to the street dirty and ill, and she went to her doctor thinking that the hospital was a TV show. When the doctors saw her, they decided to close the old woman in a psychiatric hospital.
The only hope of the film were the young boys, but even then had a bad ending.

Harry’s injury was hurting him very much and it looked terrible. His friend got him to hospital even knowing that then they could be on jail. And that was what it happened: the police arrested them to jail. The friend had to spend his life there, but Harry couldn’t put up with the pain of his injury. Doctors saw it and took another look at his arm. They couldn’t believe how the boy could resist it because it was really painful and disgusting. They finally had to cut him the arm…


“REQUIEM FOR A DREAM” talks about the dreams of the people, about their hopes…everyone needs to believe that we will have a good life, that our hopes won’t be only this, that our dreams one day will become true. But we had a lot of worries and complications, sometimes it seems that we only have one way to choose, sometimes our addictions are stronger than us…and it’s true, some people can change their ending, but not everyone is so lucky…