13 Movies That Have Little Hope For Humanity

9. Requiem For A Dream

Darren Aronofsky's masterful, unflinching addiction drama is an ingeniously constructed movie that lures audiences in with flashy, MTV-style visuals, which lull the viewer into a false sense of security about what kind of movie this is.

At first it might seem like Harry (Jared Leto) and Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) will make a fat living as drug dealers, giving Harry enough money to fund his girlfriend Marion's (Jennifer Connelly) dress shop, while Harry's mother Sara (Ellen Burstyn) will fulfil her dream to appear on television. But this is no such movie.

The "fall" sequence in the movie's third act is a hopeless descent as the four central characters pay the price for their addictions, not just to narcotics but also lifestyles and dreams.

There is no redemption here, just ruined lives and an unfathomably depressing depiction of humanity's most tragically desperate instincts.

How It Ends: Harry ends up with his arm amputated after injecting junky heroin into it, Tyrone is jailed as he goes through intense withdrawal, Marion performs degrading sexual acts for drug money and Sara is left a shadow of her former self by electroshock therapy. Yup.