Oh my god!!!!! this movie will give you nightmares for a life time , make you squirm every time you see it...adapted from a novel of the same name published in 1978 by Hubert Selby Jr. Consists of 4 main characters deals with drug abuse....it shows what happens when usage of drugs goes spiraling out of control...
The first 5 odd minutes are slow....but then it takes off like a rollercoaster ride...Harry (Jared Leto) , Marion ( Jennifer Connelly looking smoking hot hubba hubba), Tyrone ( Marlon Wayans) and Sarah ( Ellen Burstyn)... are the main characters. Harry and Marion are in a relationship while Tyrone is their close acquaintance and Sarah is Harry’s mom....while Harry, Marion and Tyrone are addicted to heroin, cocaine, Sarah is addicted to weight loss pills. Camera work and editing are something that has to be seen to be believed...in his second outing after Pi...Darren aronofsky employs shock techniques, the rolling, lighting et al...drugs consumed at break neck speed by the youngsters...but the star of the show is hands down Sarah ( ellen burstyn who played the little girl's mother in the original shocker The Exorcist: her transformation is brutal to say the least....another big blunder was when the academy insulted burstyn by giving the Oscar to Julia for erin brockovich (it was good but come on !!!!) the movie also shows the urge that people have in losing weight and the attack of the tele shopping networks....but the most powerful scene in my opinion is when harry reveals his arm to tyrone whilst in a vehicle.....
the final moments of the movie are psychotic, nightmarish, disturbing all of which is set to the haunting music of Clint Mansell's exemplary moody score...another notable scene is when Tyrone remembers the innocence of his childhood days spent in the loving arms of his mother...
the movie also talks about loneliness, self – delusion, the desperation that people will amount to get whatever they desire..another touching moment is when the director shows us what would have happened if either harry or sarah had not been consumed by drugs...they would enabled sarah's dream of going live on the television. This is what movie making should be all about....cut throat and honest!!!The final look by Ellen Burstyn after the shock treatment says it all...
The first 5 odd minutes are slow....but then it takes off like a rollercoaster ride...Harry (Jared Leto) , Marion ( Jennifer Connelly looking smoking hot hubba hubba), Tyrone ( Marlon Wayans) and Sarah ( Ellen Burstyn)... are the main characters. Harry and Marion are in a relationship while Tyrone is their close acquaintance and Sarah is Harry’s mom....while Harry, Marion and Tyrone are addicted to heroin, cocaine, Sarah is addicted to weight loss pills. Camera work and editing are something that has to be seen to be believed...in his second outing after Pi...Darren aronofsky employs shock techniques, the rolling, lighting et al...drugs consumed at break neck speed by the youngsters...but the star of the show is hands down Sarah ( ellen burstyn who played the little girl's mother in the original shocker The Exorcist: her transformation is brutal to say the least....another big blunder was when the academy insulted burstyn by giving the Oscar to Julia for erin brockovich (it was good but come on !!!!) the movie also shows the urge that people have in losing weight and the attack of the tele shopping networks....but the most powerful scene in my opinion is when harry reveals his arm to tyrone whilst in a vehicle.....
the final moments of the movie are psychotic, nightmarish, disturbing all of which is set to the haunting music of Clint Mansell's exemplary moody score...another notable scene is when Tyrone remembers the innocence of his childhood days spent in the loving arms of his mother...
the movie also talks about loneliness, self – delusion, the desperation that people will amount to get whatever they desire..another touching moment is when the director shows us what would have happened if either harry or sarah had not been consumed by drugs...they would enabled sarah's dream of going live on the television. This is what movie making should be all about....cut throat and honest!!!The final look by Ellen Burstyn after the shock treatment says it all...
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