Monday 4 July 2016

(Old Idea) Films About Drugs and the Characters


Focus Films:
- Trainspotting
- Pulp Fiction
- Requiem for a Dream


Requiem for a dream:
Quick overview of characters: Mother and a son. Love hate relationship. Son (Harry Goldfarb) steels from his mother. Mother (Sara Goldfarb) misses her son and is very lonely. Sara is addicted to TV and food. When made to go on a diet a new addiction to drug is created. Harry is a heroin addict along with girlfriend (Marion Silver) and Tyrone C. Love. Ambitions young people who don't understand the consequences of drugs until they occur.


Trainspotting: Quick over view of characters: Small group of men, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud Tommy and Begbie. All heroin addicts accept Tommy (to start off with) and Begbie who is instead addicted to violence. The small group takes drugs together. The small group impose on each other and as a collective have no control on their addiction causing Tommy to take up heroin. Crimes are committed (as well as drug taking) by the characters.


Pulp Fiction:
Quick over view of characters:

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