Requiem for a Dream

Synopsis:

Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you're hooked, you're hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Despite their aspirations of greatness, they succumb to their addictions. Watching the addicts spiral out of control, we bear witness to the dirtiest, ugliest portions of the underworld addicts reside in. It is shocking and eye-opening but demands to be seen by both addicts and non-addicts alike.- Found of IMDB

I decided to watch 'Requiem for a Dream' as it seems to link with the trailer I am making for Media. As it is all to do with taking drugs and the effect on different people. In the film 'Requiem for a Dream' we are mainly shown the affects on a young couple in love and how they slowly deteriorate until it gets to the stage where Marion Silver has to stoop to selling her body to get enough money to get the drugs she needs while Harry Goldfarb has to go all over the country to get the drugs he needs and ends up getting an infection so he cannot return to his home where Marion is waiting for him. It also shows the effects on the mother who is obsessed with getting on a TV show, she turns to a dieting pill that makes her start to go insane and she ends up in hospital while they try and help her. It also follows the life of Harry's friend Tyrone C. Love, who ended up in prison with Harry due to being caught.

Our trailer uses extracts from this film as we include things like showing the effects of drugs with the couple happy and messing around, along with a more violent side where the couple is arguing and shouting at each other and the fact that both our trailer and the film seem to be more of a documentary of the lives rather than a straight up film. However unlike the film we have the added extra of the trailer we are making being a horror with deaths. Personally I found the whole trailer extremely confusing as you never really know what's going on or where the story is going to go because it seems to be a tangled web of the messed up lives of the people involved. All ending with tragedy for each character whether that's hospital, prison or being forced into a life of entertaining men to get enough money to pay for the drugs.

Although I didn't particularly like the film, as I felt it was way too confusing and actually gave me a headache watching it because there was so much happening all the time and it just got extremely confusing. I did still think it showed the affects of drugs well, and made the audience feel as though they where the ones doing drugs too.