Addiction In The Film Requiem For A Dream

Addiction In Atlanta, Georgia, there is a poor, unkempt crack-cocaine addict whose top priority is, seemingly, accumulating whatever form of currency or collateral they can use to get their next fix. At the same time, in the suburbs of Roswell, Georgia, a middle-aged, upper-class homemaker 's only feeling of satisfaction while her husband is at work and her children are away at school comes from her daily trips to the nearest shopping center to purchase new clothes. Inside a classroom of Starr 's Mill High School in Fayetteville, Georgia, a young man anxiously counts down the minutes until he gets home from school, goes into his room, and plugs himself into his X-Box 360 for the remainder of afternoon and evening. These three people, along with millions of others around the …show more content…
The characters are Harry, his girlfriend Marion, his mother Sara, and his good friend Tyrone. Harry, Marion, and Tyrone have a severe addiction to heroin and cocaine, while Sara becomes addicted to diet pills. An example of how one 's environment, genetics, and mind can all lead to an addiction is seen through Harry 's character. Since the film never shows Harry 's first time using heroin, the viewer is left to decide for themselves how he got started. Despite this, the area of the city in which he lives is not a very good part of town, and his friends are obviously heavy drug users. Therefore, one could make the argument that his environment was the leading factor in his addiction. Another argument could be made concerning his genetics. His mother also becomes dependent on drugs easily, which could possibly show that addiction did indeed get passed down through their family. There is also a chance that neither were a factor, and that Harry simply one day made a bad choice that he did not want to acknowledge because he liked the feeling, or fix, he got from