3 Requiem for a Dream.
The motion picture "Requiem for a Dream" is an emotionally charged film linking the lives of a lonely widow, her son Harry, his girlfriend Marion, and his best friend Tyrone. Set in Coney Island, Brooklyn all four characters lose their grip on their dreams, has their addiction to drugs grows. Has their addictions grow they become more and more desperate to try and hold on, refusing to let go, of their dreams. No matter how hard they tried, they all freefell into a nightmare; costing them their lives. Drugs destroy all hope of people's dreams and drugs become the only thing important to them.
Harry's mother, Sara Goldfarb spent her days watching infomercials and eating chocolate alone in her apartment. After a vague phone call that promised to put her on television (her dream) she started to take diet pills so that she could fit into an old, fancy dress for her big moment. The longer and longer Sara Goldfarb took the pills the more and more she got addicted. Soon after, she stopped eating all together and became obsess with being on television. Eventually, she wasn't her self anymore; she became insane and lived in her own world. At the end, she was admitted to a hospital where they realized she was gone forever. The doctors decided to electrocute her brain waves; resulting in her becoming a vegetable and living the rest of her life in a hospital. Sara Goldfarb only cared about her pills, which destroyed her life. Her dream of being on T.V. was destroyed by her drug addiction. No matter how hard she tried to hold on to her dream, the addiction took over. The diet pills destroyed her life, brain, and most tragic her dream.
Harry Goldfarb hung around with his best friend Tyrone investing in small amounts of money in heroin. Their goal was to work up the drug-dealer food chain so that they could buy a "pound of pure" and sit back and let the money roll in.
