Movie Review

Lina Nguyen
Period 2

Language Arts

Mr.Zavala

November 14, 12

Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream, directed by Darren Aronofsky is about 4 people that are hooked onto drugs and eventually abuse it. Taking place in Brooklyn, New York., these four characters struggles with their life and with each situation they become addicted to drugs. Starring Ellen Burstyn as Sara, Jared Leto as Harry, Jennifer Connelly as Marrion, and Marlon Wayans as Tyrone, they all develop a drug addiction to either cocaine, heroine, and speed (diet pills). Requiem for a Dream, nominated and as well as won quite a few awards. Most of the awards won were in the “Best Actor” category for Ellen Burstyn. Some other awards this movie won were the Chlotrudis Award as “Best Movie”, The Gloden Trailer Awards as “Best of Show” and many more.

The movie Requiem for a Dream is about four Individuals who struggle with their addiction to drugs. Ellen Burstyn as Sara loves to get her daily dosage of a hit infomercial. She one day gets a call promising that she will appear on the TV show. Suddenly overwhelmed with excitement, in hopes of showing off her son, she decides to wear the same dress she wore to his high school graduation. Not being able to fit it no more because of the weight she gained, she tries to go on a diet. But the “no sugar and grapefruit and coffee” doesn’t sound filling enough for Sara so she decides to go to a doctor to try some diet pills. Because of the need to fit into the dress, Sara soon becomes addicted to the drug in hopes of starring on the infomercial. Harry, Tyrone an Marrion on the other hand as a different type of addiction to drugs. They’re all addicted to heroine and cocaine. All desperate to make a little cash in order to buy drugs, they constantly steal just to buy a small bit of drugs. Hitting rock bottom after a while, everyone all tries to constantly try as hard as they can doing no matter what to get the drug they need in order for them to keep sane.

            Overall, I thought the movie was very good. I really liked all the shots and the editing. The wide variety of shots really helped the viewer to understand what was going on, and same goes for the editing. Especially when one of them was “high” it was as if we were experiencing the hallucinations from the drugs were causing them to us as well. This movie really kept me on the edge of my seat. It was pretty gruesome, since it was a rated R movie, but it was a very educational and taught a good lesson.  Overall, I think I would give this movie a 4.5 out of 5 stars and I say go watch it. 

Angry Letter

2825 Ala Ilima Street

Honolulu, HI 96818

November 14, 2012

MAC Cosmetics

1450 Ala Moana Blvd Ste 2072

Honolulu, HI 96818

Dear MAC Cosmetics Administration,

I have always been a satisfied customer of your makeup products. It’s a great high-end company that sells excellent quality makeup.

However, I have recently encountered some problems with an inappropriate attitude with most of the sales associates. It may just be that the employee’s were having a bad day, but it has happened to me more then once and at different MAC Cosmetic locations as well. When walking into the store I am automatically greeted with a hello, but the tension and the vibe is very intimidating. Although I may be still a teenager, it is no right to constantly stare me down thinking I would steal some something. I called one of your locations asking about what your job description is as a sales associate. They said told me that you have to be a well-rounded person as well as have good attitude and an open mind. With my past experiences at MAC, the sales associates haven’t shown these types of qualities. 

Not only was I the only one to get this type of attitude towards myself, but others as well. I have checked yelp reviews for MAC Cosmetics around my area and others too were irate by the way they have been treated at your store. Although not all of them were bad, these are just a few random quotes I pulled out of some reviews. “Most of the time, I am just ignored when I wander in there.” “And what’s up with all the attitudes?” These are just two of the many unpleasant reviews that your store has been getting.

I completely understand if some of the times your workers were just having a “bad day”, but that has no right to interfere with their work ethic. They came into this job so be a sales associate. To be a well-rounded worker with a good attitude towards customers.

Please keep up with the good work with making the MAC Cosmetic’s store a good affordable high-end quality brand makeup. But I do advise you to just talk to your staff members about their attitude towards the customers.

Sincerely,

Lina Nguyen