The first time I saw this movie I was alone. I had come home from work to find my roommates asleep and this movie they had just rented was left on the coffee table with a note "You MUST watch". So I did. After I watched it, I left a note on the TV describing how I felt about the movie. The note read: "Fucked up and wrong."

If they gave away awards for films created to ward people off of a life of selling and using heroin, Darren Aronofsky (Pi) would win it in a cinch.

This film stars Jared Leto (My So Called Life, 30 Seconds to Mars), Jennifer Connelly (Labyrinth, Dark City) and Marlon Wayans (He's a Wayans, duh) as three loving friends in New Jersey who happen to like doing heroin together. They like it so much that they decide to sell it too. The movie follows our heros(?) as they buy, sell, use, buy, sell, use, buy, sell, use, use, buy, use some more, and use again.
At first their antics seem aimless and needless (one scene shows Jared Leto stealing his mother's television to pawn for smack) but the audience is slowly lured into liking these characters and actually feeling for them when the drug begins to destroy their lives. The interesting and more touching subplot shows the opposite side of the drug problem when Leto's mother is prescribed amphetamines by her doctor to help her lose weight. Soon she is living on another planet and cannot makes sense of what is happening to her.

I really don't want to give too much of this movie away, it's something you just have to see. Darren Aronofsky has a flare for bringing out the gritty crazy person we all harbor inside of us and, through the use of edgy cinematography, draws his audience into the story and grips on to them like he was showing them a train wreck, which is exactly how this movie runs.

All I can say about this movie is it will leave you wanting to call your mother and, as I told my roommates that first time I saw it; Fucked up and wrong.