If there was ever a movie to be used as an advertisement against drug use, it's Darren Aronofsky's plainly depressing Requiem For A Dream - a motion picture that contains approximately eighty-seven very uncomfortable and very distressing scenes. The worst of the bunch, and one of the most hard-to-watch movie scenes of all-time, has been nicknamed "Ass to Ass" by those who know it. In said scene, the tragic protagonist Marion (Jennifer Connelly) is subjected to a scenario so inherently despicable that you never, ever want to experience it again once you've sat through it once. So what happens? Essentially, Marion meets up with a pimp who promises to score her some drugs if she partakes in a sex show for a bunch of creepy businessmen. The scene is shot in a purposely disorienting way that only serves to make it all the more humiliating for Marion, who - at one point - is made to sit with her buttocks against another girl's as a dildo is inserted between them both. In all, it's one of the nastiest sequences you'll ever see.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
