20. Requiem for a Dream(2000)
Legitimately one of the most disturbing, depressing films I have ever seen in my lifetime. Requiem for a Dream revolves around the lives of four individuals and how addiction ruins them. One by one, being toppled by the reality that shatters their illusions of life.
As Harry Goldfarb, his girlfriend Marion and his friend Tyrone all abuse and sell heroin for profit so they can fulfill their dreams, Harry's mother Sara slowly becomes addicted to diet pills in a desperate attempt to fit into an old red dress before an appearance on motivational speaker Tappy Tibbon's infomercial. All of them are splendidly performed by their actors(yes, including MARLON WAYANS as Tyrone). And as with this stuff, things seem to be fine at first, until moments slowly unravel and by the end it all falls down. Tyrone has been jailed and left alone, Marion is selling her body for drugs, Harry had to have an arm amputated and Sara is forced to undergo electroshock treatment after the diet pills and her own anxiety about her weight leaves her losing her sanity.
In Requiem for a Dream, there is no fairness, only truth. And Darren Aronofsky's direction shows it through a lens of fear and isolation.
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