Requiem for a Dream

I must say this movie takes on a completely different perspective of how drug addicts face or better yet ,fall into their addiction. Also, the way in which the director decides to depict the addicts when they taking drugs was eye-opening, literally and figuratively. Watching this movie made the Nick Sheff book, Tweak ,come to reality. I found the many things Scheff explained in his book when he was high and what he did to get high were pretty much the same. Things like selling his body, stealing, selling drugs, and participating in all types of risky behavior were present in the movie. Addicts more than just physically dependent on their drugs, they are emotionally/mentally dependent on them and they use it to get away from the reality they don't want to face. I can remember someone asking why didn't Harry look after his mother when he found out she was popping pills? I would argue that if Harry could not bring himself to stop sniffing drugs how could he possibly persuade his mother to do so. As a matter of fact, after finding out that his mother was popping pills, Harry started to cry and took his on drugs to get away form the situation. Addicts feel as though they have no control over what causes them pain when they are sober and ironically, when the take their drugs they get a great sense of control, freedom, and are willing to do anything but in actuality, this supposed control is an illusion that they believe to be reality. This movie is true to the reality of a addict in the sense that those who do not find ways to cope with there addiction, end up like Marion, Harry, his mother and friend. In the end of the movie, we do not see no happiness.