Requiem For A Dream review

Yesterday I saw Requiem For a Dream for the first time. The movie was very messed up, from beginning to end. The movie goes deep into the reality of drug addiction and its psychological and social problems that follow. The characters' drug addiction was primarily to heroin or prescription pills. The movie shows a doctor not even looking once at her patient and prescribing her 3 kinds of diet pills. These pills then become an addiction of the main characters mother who later gets locked in a mentally ill ward. Her son however, eventually develops a severe infection on his arm (infected needles) and when he goes to get it checked out at a hospital, his doctor however, didn't even treat the wound but instead called the police who instantly arrested him. The guys arm eventually gets chopped off at the end of the movie and his girlfriend becomes a prostitute in order to fund and supply her drug addiction. The movie was really sad, but it showed an important lesson: because of her sons drug addiction, the mother was left alone after he left without a trace. And with no one looking after her, the mother became obsessed with the fantasies of her past and resulted in her craving for weight loss. The fantasies develop and become more real as her drug addiction escalated. This movie was perhaps the saddest movie I've ever seen and I highly recommend it to everyone.