This psychological thriller drama was released on October 27, 2000. This movie was directed by Darren Aronofsky while the screenplay was written by Darren Aronofsky himself and Hulbert Selby Jr.
The cast
includes:
Jenifer
Connelly as Marion Silver
Jared Leto
as Harry Goldfarb
Ellen
Burstyn as Sara Goldfarb
Marlon
Wayans as Tyrone C. Love
Christopher McDonald as Tappy Tibbons
Hubert Selby Jr. as Laughing Guard
James
Chinlund as Space Oddity
Sean
Gullette as Arnold The Shrink
Plot summary:
The opening
sequence of the movie shows a boy blackmailing his widow mother that he will
sell the stuff from his home if she doesn’t do what he tells her and his mother
gives him a locket. Now the present scene is shown where the boy grows up and
his name is Harry. The scene shows Harry selling his mother’s television with
his friend Tyrone to buy drugs. This depicts that he and his friend are drug
addicts. Her mother goes to the same shop where his son sells the television to
buy it once again. The shopkeeper asks the lady why she doesn’t send her son to
the police for his addiction. She tells him that she has no one except him so
she can’t do so.
The lady, too has an addiction to watching a
tv show too much. One day she gets a call from a person from the same tv show
who tells her that she has been selected to appear in that game show. This
makes her overwhelmed with joy. She starts dreaming to appear in the
show. She decides to wear a red dress
for the show. She goes to her neighbor to tell her that she has been selected and
she will be wearing that red dress for the show. But that dress doesn’t fit her
since she has become overweight. Her friend gives her a diet book named “Ten
Pounds in ten days” in order to help her lose weight. She works accordingly
with the restricted diet for a few days but can’t continue that because of her
eating habits. So she plans to meet a doctor who would help her to lose her
weight.
She tells
her doctor that she would have to lose around 20 kilograms of weight. The doctor
prescribes her some pills and tells her to take them during her meal. In
the next scene, it is shown that Tyrone and Harry are planning to start a legal
business by collecting money after selling cocaine. Harry has a girlfriend
whose name is Marion. She lives away from her family and she, too is a drug
addict. Harry tells her that after earning money from the sold drugs, he will
make a designer showroom for her so they can earn, more money.
They start
selling drugs and as a result, they earn a lot of money. They collect that money
in a box. As time flies, they start having better lives. Harry buys a big
television for his mother too. With time, the amount of money starts
decreasing too because they spend it on many things. One day during drug dealing,
Tyrone gets caught by the police and gets locked up in a prison. Harry has to
pay a big sum of money to get him back.
After all
these incidents, Harry goes to meet his mother Sara where he gets to know that
she is taking some medicines regularly which even she doesn’t know what they
exactly are. He forbids her from taking them because he knows that they can
induce some addiction too. But she tells him that it's nothing but the medicine
that will help her lose some weight so that she can go to her favorite show and
tell the viewers about her life and her husband. This will make her famous all
through the country and she will start making some money too. After that, Harry
leaves that place and starts crying looking at the condition of his mother.
Now all the
money that they had made is spent. They don’t even have enough money to buy the
drug so that they can sell them. Looking
at the situation Harry asks his girlfriend Marion to get intimate with her
psychiatrist and ask for a sum of two hundred dollars. After that, they will be
able to restart their business. Marion
keeps on rejecting but finally, Harry convinces her to do so. She gets into a physical relationship with her psychiatrist Arnold and as a result, she gets
paid a sum of two hundred dollars. Harry goes with Tyrone to buy the drugs
with that money. But it is so crowded that people start hurting each other
physically. And gun firing starts there too. This makes the scene so chaotic
that they have to come back without receiving the drugs.
On the other
hand, Sara is rampantly losing her weight. Although she has lost her weight,
she has also got addicted to the medicine. As a result, she has started
hallucinating scenes. To avoid them, she starts taking higher doses of those
medicines rather than consulting the doctors. She even hallucinates that she
has reached the show and the host has been asking her questions.
When Marion
gets to know that Harry and Tyrone didn’t receive any drugs that day, she gets
mad. Marion and Harry get into a fight. Finally, Harry assures Marion that he
knows about another drug dealer named Tim. But when he calls Tim, he says that
he wants a girl in exchange for the drugs. After that, Harry cuts the call and
decides to go to Florida to get the drugs that are farther from his place. On
the other hand, Marion is not getting drugs and that is making her sick. So she
decides to call Tim by herself. She cuts the call first but next time she talks
to him and asks for his address. She goes to the address and gets into a physical
relationship with him. Tim gets impressed with her and invites her to a party
too.
On the other
hand, Harry and Tyrone have reached Florida. But a wound starts appearing on
Harry’s hand due to multiple injections taken. This gets worse day by day and
hence Tyrone takes him to the hospital. The doctor understands that it is a
case of drug addiction and hence calls the police. The police take them to the
police station.
On the other
hand, Sara has not been invited to the show yet. She gets so lost in her
hallucinations that she sees her refrigerator walking toward her. Sara runs
from the apartment and gets into a train. There she talks with the passengers
in such a weird way that they understand that she is not doing well. So they
take her to the hospital where she receives so many harsh shock treatments.
Harry on the
next hand is suffering from immense pain in his arm in prison. So he is
taken to the hospital. Tyron is made to work very hard in prison which gets
him to mental stress. Tyrone starts crying looking at the condition of Harry.
Now Harry calls Marion that he will return back soon and even tells her not to leave him. When Marion asks him if he
can come today, Harry starts crying.
All the
treatments done to her do no work on Sara. So the doctors decide to do shock treatment for her. In the next
scene, it is shown that Marion has reached the party. And a lot of gang members
are seen at that sex party. Here these people ask her to do different sexual
acts.
Now different scenes are parallelly shown in the movie. In one scene, it is shown that the shock treatment worsens the conditions of Sara. In the next scene, Harry is seen lying on the hospital bed with his arm cut. In the other scene, Tyrone is seen to be so depressed and energyless. While in the next scene, Marion arrives at her home with a huge sum of money lying on her couch after getting sexually used. Sara is still hallucinating herself on the tv show while Harry is hopelessly remembering his and Marion’s dream of becoming a successful businessman. The movie depicts how they ruin each of their lives due to addiction.
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