Harry's Friend Tyrone example essay topic

This is a movie about a mother named Sara Goldfarb played by Ellen Bursty n, her son and only child Harry played by Jared Leto, his best friend Tyrone C. Love played by Marlon Wayans, and Harry's girlfriend Marion Silver played by Jennifer Connelly. The movie opens with a scene in which Harry is in the process of taking his mother's television against her wishes. His mother is addicted to her T.V., and now that Harry has left home, it is her whole universe. Her favorite show is one where a man who has lost a lot of weight runs a game show. Her dream is to some day be on his show. Harry's friend Tyrone is waiting outside the apartment to help him push the T.V. across town to the appliance man's store where they sell the set and use the money to buy Heroin.

The next scene shows Sara, Harry's mother retrieving the set back from the appliance man for what is most likely the hundredth time or so. Sara is what we call an "enabler"; she turns her head to whatever Harry does and makes excuses for him. From there Harry and Tyrone get high with Harry's girlfriend Marion. Soon we see as the addiction progresses, Harry and Tyrone begin to hatch a plan to score a large amount of Heroin so they can sell it and have their stash for free. This is a common train of thought for addicts. It is this same type of cognitive process that leads a Meth addict to setting up a home lab and cooking dope him, or herself.

Then we see Sara get a phone call from a Television studio and are informed that she has won a contest and has been selected to be a guest on her favorite T.V. show. She has a problem though, she wants to wear the red dress she wore to Harry's graduation, but she discovers she can no longer get it zipped up as she has gained too much weight in the past few years. A neighbor suggests that she see the doctor her daughter did to lose the unwanted weight. She does and he prescribes a regiment of diet pills that she soon finds gives her enormous amounts of energy as well as helps her start to lose weight.

Sara quickly becomes addicted to the pills. Now the stage is set for all four chapters to succumb to the ravages of addiction. Harry and Tyrone soon start to make large amounts of money and Tyrone begins to see himself as a real player, while Harry and Marion begin to dream of opening up a boutique to sell clothes that Marion herself will select and design. Unfortunately such dreams are more often than not short lived. Harry visits his mother to tell her he has bought her a large screen T.V. to make up for being such a bad son, and it will be delivered in a couple of days. During the visit he notices his mother chewing her lip and talking continuously.

He questions her and she tells him about the doctor who is helping her lose weight so she can fit into her red dress for her debut on television. He accuses her of becoming an addict. She tells him she really has nothing to live or look forward to anymore but this T.V. game show. He goes away with promises to see her again soon. It is a promise he won't be able to keep. The movie then follows each one down through the spiral of active addiction to the seemingly bottomless pit it leads to.

It is sometimes hard to follow as Sara grows ever more Psychotic, Harry and Marion's relationship begins to disintegrate, and Tyrone gets into one bad situation after another as his drug dealer gets shot in front of him and he finds himself in the middle of a drug war between two rival gangs. Harry and Tyrone, now almost broke, hatch a plan to make a trip to Florida so they can score drugs there, as now the supply on the streets has all but dried up. In the meantime Harry talks Marion into prostitution in order to help him raise enough money and drugs for the trip. She does and Harry and Tyrone leave for Florida. Marion in the meantime continues into worse situations in order to feed her addiction while they " re gone. As the movie winds up Harry and Tyrone get high on the trip and Tyrone sees that Harry's abscessed arm is turning Gangrene.

He decides to take Harry to the hospital where the Doctor has them arrested for obvious reasons. In jail Tyrone is sentenced to a work detail and Harry's arm is amputated. During all of this we see Sara's addiction grow and the psychosis of a speed addict grow with it. She soon becomes delusional and haggard in appearance. As her fantasies become more real and frightening to her she decides to go to the studio and find out why she's never heard back from them.

At Sara's arrival the studio calls an ambulance and she is taken to the hospital and correctly diagnosed with dehydration and lack of nourishment due to an addiction to diet pills. When all attempts to get her to eat or to feed her fail, she is tricked into signing self-commitment papers and is sent to a mental institution where she undergoes radical electric shock therapy. When her two best friends come to see hr all they find is burned out hulk doing the Thorazine shuffle. They realize she has retreated to a never ending fantasy world inside of her own head. This is a sad but accurate portrait of the way the disease of addiction ravages entire families. I highly recommend watching it, but you may find you have to watch it twice to catch all of the twists and turns.