15 Awesome Films Since 2000 You'll Never Watch Again
2. Requiem For A Dream
Plot:
Four people in New York spiral into horrendous drug addiction in what is probably the bleakest depiction of drugs ever committed to film.
Why It's Awesome:
Four amazing lead performances and Darren Aronofsky's dazzling direction cemented this as one of the best drug addiction movies of all time.
Why You'll Only Watch It Once:
Known as one of the most depressing films of all time, this is perhaps the poster-child for films you'll never watch again.
Given how well-known the events of the film are, its impact has diminished a little but this is still an exceptionally downbeat display of addiction that'll put you off drugs for life.
For the most part the film is unbearably intense and with the fast-cutting, outbursts of emotion and surreal, nightmarish visuals pounding the viewer without end, this makes for an enormously tough and frequently terrifying film that's more disturbing than most horror films could ever dream of being.
Amazingly, the film only gets even more upsetting as it goes along and it culminates in an intensely harrowing tragic ending. Sara (Ellen Burstyn) is left in a vegetative state after electro-shock therapy and a complete mental breakdown, Harry (Jared Leto) and Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) end up in jail and the former has to have his arm amputated and Marion (Jennifer Connelly) subjects herself to a degrading sex show to get heroin.
There are very, very few people who watch this more than once.