I found Requiem for a Dream to be an extremely powerful, yet disturbing tale. It's story focuses around the lives of three junkies whose lives are only driven by their next high. The film paints a gritty and realistic portrayal of the life of a junkie. The cinematography of the film is unbelievable. It features a choppy and erractic experience, but it adds to the sense of entering and leaving sobriety throughout the film. Overall, this was a well made film, but it's certainly not for everybody. The issues the film addresses and the graphic way that it tells the tale made even me squimish at times. Perhaps it was the intensity of the film or it could have been the dream like sequence, but after seeng the film I wasn't left feeling uplifted as much uneasy.