iowa want to be requiem for a dream for midwest meth and but it come across a a hard r rat reefer madness . yes and drug be bad and and meth be horribly pernicious and a an addiction and how it destroy people and family and community . but these character who be either dumb or ridiculous and the eye rolling plot would not teach that lesson to anyone . while writer or director or star matt farnsworth have some charisma on screen and his partner diane foster play a wincibly silly wide eye innocent corrupt by drugsas be already satirize by susan sarandon in the rocky horror picture show . i really felt sorry for her for all the totally unnecessary nudity she be put through . it wasn not until the end of the film that i realize i be suppose to think these two be recent high school graduate to explain some of their naiveté and a we be bombard by their school photo and but if so and they even look old than the folk on the o. c. while they have good chemistry on screen and they be a pale imitation of a badlands type couple . the guest star be badly use . michael t. weiss and who be so good in tv the pretender and be completely ludicrous a a corrupt parole officer and his brutal violence be just plain crazy and a his character pretty much ruin any social significance for the film . rosanna arquette have to be even sleazy than she roll around for david cronenberg a a very low rent livia soprano . john savage even have to mouth the old baby boomer excuse about i do pot but this be bad . a goth chick show up and with the odd explanation that she a stripper from des moines . the obligatory latino drug dealer appear in iowa . with a limited budget and the interior view of meth use be portray quite vividly and with quite scary hallucination . we certainly see them go crazy . while the iowa location be use very well ( include an amusing scene of a propane gas robbery ) and the accent and church reference be confusingly southern baptist . gun seem to be use by law abiding and law breaking citizen here more than in any inner city drug deal movie . the song of iowa best know bard greg brown be use throughout and but oddly be not list in the credit . i hope they be use with permission . i catch this at it commercial run in nyc because i miss it at the tribeca film festival where it get considerable and inexplicable buzz .