Requiem for a Dream

I've just finished watching this movie, I had been meaning to watch Requiem for a Dream for a while after hearing a friend mention it, I guess it was something about the name that kept it in my mind, anyway I finally got around to watching it and I have to say that i was deeply disturbed, I never thought a fridge could scare the shit out of me. The tone of the movie is very bleak and haunting, I have a feeling that it'll be stuck in my mind for a while. The score, combined with the camera work creates a sort of tension throughout the film that builds up to the point where something sudden happens that makes you soil yourself, not unlike what happens in thrillers/horror movies

The movie is about four people each of whom have separate stories which are told in parallel as they try to better their situations, it also shows what they're willing to do to make their dreams come true. Addiction is a major theme in the movie as all the characters start or end up addicted to drugs
causing some hallucination sequences which were the things that probably got to me the most, i.e. the fridge thing mentioned earlier. It contains a fair amount of nudity, sex and drug use, probably explains it's R18 rating.

Jared Leto, from 30 Seconds to Mars plays one of the main characters in this movie, he's a pretty multi-talented guy, with the music and acting, both of which i'm a fan of.

Definitely worth a watch if your looking for something different, but maybe a little too intense for my taste.