Requiem for a Dream

The story begins in summer. Sara Goldfarb, an elderly widow living alone in her Brighton Beach apartment, spends most of her time watching television. After a phone call announces that she will be invited to be a participant on a game show, she becomes passionate with matching her appearance to a photograph from Harry's (son) graduation. In order to fit into her old red dress she begins taking a treatment of prescription weight-loss pills not knowing what they really were throughout the day. On the other hand her son Harry is a heroin addict. Together with his friend, Tyrone, and his girlfriend, Marion who are also heroin addicts start taking more dozes of the heroine. Their main aim is to open a fashion store for Marion's designs.
Now in the middle Tyrone is caught in the of a drug gang murder and Harry uses the majority of the money they have earned to bail him out of prison Growing more desperate, Marion tells Harry she doesn't know what she is going to do to get the money from her heroine and ends up having sex with him in exchange for the money, causing a confuse relationship. Sara's visits the TV studio and she is put in a mental institution, where she undergoes painful therapy. Harry and Tyrone travel to Florida, where they believe they can start over, but Harry's weakening condition forces them to visit a hospital in South Carolina, where they are arrested. Marion meets with a pimp, who makes her have more sex with him for drugs, each character is falling into a fetal position. In Sara's dream, however, she wins the grand prize that the game show offers and meets Harry there. In her fantasy, Harry is a successful businessman, engaged to Marion. Mother and son hug and say how much they love one another through the cheers of the crowd. Like this the movie ends but drugs really affect lives of many people.

By: Hammad Ameer