Requiem for a Dream is an American 2000 psychological drama directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly and Marlon Wayans. The film is based on a novel of the same name by Hubert Selby, Jr., with whom Aronofsky wrote the screenplay.
The film portrays four different forms of drug addiction, leading to imprisonment of character in a fantasy world and desperate despair which is then taken over by reality, leaving them as empty shells of their former selves.
Requiem for a Dream was screened from the competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2000 and received positive reviews from critics for its release in the US. Burstyn was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.
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Plot
During the summer at Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Sara Goldfarb's widow spends her time watching infomercials. Meanwhile, his son, Harry, sometimes searched his television set to fund it, his lover, Marion's, and his friend, Tyrone, using drugs.
After Sara received a call that she had won a spot on a television show, she became excited to attend the event. To pair back to her red dress, the favorite of her dead husband Seymour, she tried to lose weight through a diet that did not work. At the recommendation of a friend, he visited an unscrupulous doctor who prescribed the weight-loss amphetamine drug to him. He starts losing weight, and is excited by how much energy he has.
Harry and Tyrone plan to sell heroin to make enough for life; That summer, their small trading business thrives. Harry and Marion plan to open a clothing store for Marion's design, and Tyrone dreams of escaping from the ghetto to make her mother proud. Sara and her friends waited expectantly every day for the game show invitation to arrive. With the extra money, Harry drops by to tell his mother that he's ordered a new television set, but when he asks her to get off amphetamine, he confesses that the only thing he has to live again is the dream of looking for the glamor of the television stage, the extras he received now from his friends.
Since Sara's tolerance for amphetamines increased, she desperately needed the old one, while panicking about the invitation. When she increases her dose she develops amphetamine psychosis. During the drug deal, Tyrone was caught in a gunfight between two competing gangs. He escaped from the scene and was arrested. Harry had to use most of their money to pay bail. The supply of local heroin becomes limited, and they can not find anything to use or sell. Finally, Tyrone heard the big shipments come, but the price doubled and the minimum height. Harry, in despair, advised Marion to ask his psychiatrist, Arnold, for money in return for sex, to establish their relationship. When drug purchases got worse, Harry returned empty-handed to Marion. He leaves after giving him the number of a pimp, Big Tim, who trades heroin for sex. Harry and Tyrone decided that to get their business back on track, they would go to Florida to buy directly from the grocers there.
After a series of horrific hallucinations, Sara fled her apartment to the foundry's agency office in Manhattan, to be sure when she would be on TV. He was taken by ambulance and committed to a psychiatric ward where he was subjected to degrading treatment. When nothing works, the doctor induces Sara who is almost clear to agree on electroconvulsive therapy.
On the way to Miami, Harry and Tyrone visit the hospital because of Harry's increasingly infected needle shots. The doctor noticed the symptoms of drug abuse, and Harry and Tyrone were arrested. Back to New York, Marion is desperate to have sex with pimps to get heroin. Realizing his addiction, he persuades her with a larger heroin score if he returns the weekend for the party. Tyrone was ridiculed by racist prison guards while undergoing manual labor. Infected Harry's arm was amputated. Sara had an electric shock treatment. Marion was humiliated as the subject of a graphic sex show.
When Sara's friends come to the hospital for a visit, they are desperate because of their almost vegetative state. Harry wakes up with a desperate emotion after amputation, knowing that Marion will not visit him. Tyrone thinks of his mother in prison and suffers from drug withdrawal. Marion comes home from the show and lies on the couch, holding her heroin score. Sara dreams that she's on television, and has won the grand prize, with Harry as the guest of honor.
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Cast
Production
The right movie for Hubert Selby, Jr. selected by Scott Vogel for Truth and Soul Pictures in 1997 before the release of the Aronofsky film ? .
Themes
Most reviewers characterize the Requiem for a Dream in the "movie drug genre", along with movies like The Basketball Diaries , Trainspotting , Spun , and Fear and Hate in Las Vegas .
However, Aronofsky says:
In the book, Selby refers to "American Dreams" as amorphous and unattainable, a compilation of various desires of story characters.
Style
As in the previous movie, ? , Aronofsky uses a very short image montage throughout the film (sometimes called a hip hop montage). While the average movie 100 minutes has 600 to 700 pieces, Requiem has more than 2,000. A separate screen is used extensively, along with a very tight closeup. Long tracking photos (including shots with a device that binds the camera to an actor, called Snorricam) and time lapse photography are also a prominent style device.
To illustrate the shift from objective, community-based narratives to subjective states and isolated from a character's perspective, Aronofsky alternates between extreme close and extreme distances from action and inter-reality with character fantasies. Aronofsky aims to subdue emotions, and the effect of his choice of style is personalization rather than alienation. The camera serves as a vehicle to explore the state of mind character, hallucinations, visual distortions, and a sense of time is corrupt.
Movies that distance themselves from empathy structurally advance with the use of intertitles (Summer, Autumn, Winter), mark a temporary progression of addiction. The average length of the shortened scene during the movie (from about 90 seconds to two minutes) to movie climax scenes, which are cut very quickly (many changes per second) and accompanied by scores that increase the intensity accordingly. After the climax, there is a brief period of calm, where a beautiful dream of what might have been juxtaposed with a portrait of four destroyed souls.
Release
Requiem for a Dream premiered at the Cannes 2000 Film Festival on May 14, 2000 and the Toronto 2000 International Film Festival on September 13 before the broad release on October 27th.
Rating
In the United States, the film was initially rated NC-17 by the MPAA, but Aronofsky appealed the rating, claiming that cutting any part of the movie would dilute its message. The appeal was rejected and Artisan decided to release the movie without rating. The R-rated version was released on the video, with an edited sex scene, but the rest of the movie is identical to an unrated version.
In the United Kingdom, the film was given 18 certificates by BBFC for "drug portrayal, abusive language and sex". In Australia the film was rated R18 by ACB for "drug use and mature themes".
Critical reception
Requiem for a Dream received positive reviews from critics and had a "Fresh Certified" score of 78% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 133 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4 out of 10. The critical consensus states, Though the movie may be too strong for some people, the extraordinary performances and dreary shadows are hard to forget. " The film also has a score of 68 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 32 critics, showing "generally favorable reviews." Film critic James Berardinelli considers Requiem for a Dream the second best film of the decade, behind the The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. Roger Ebert gave a 3 ½ star movie of four, stating that "What is interesting about Requiem for a Dream, ... is how well [Aronofsky] describes the mental state of the addict.When they use, to the world where everything is right, then it closes, and life reduces itself to making money and medicine to open it again. "Elvis Mitchell, writing for The New York Times, gave the film a positive review, that "After the phenomenal debut of a young director with an almost budgeted budget, Pi, who watches a middle-class boxer win a pure battle on reflexes, he returns with a picture showing maturity."
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian , praised the film. "The portrayal of her tortuous and tortuous drug abuse, taken from a novel by Hubert Selby Jr (with whom Aronofsky co-authored the script), is a formally fun work - if fun can be the right word." Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that "no one is interested in the power and the magic of the film to be missed." Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly, who gave the job an "A" rating, argued that it was "probably the first film that fully captures the way a drug damages us from ourselves" and says, "The movie, full-fledged mind -throttle, hypnotic and intense, visual and spiritual plunge into the seduction and terror of drug addiction. "Scott Brake of IGN gave this movie 9.0 out of 10 and argued," The reason it works so well like the movie about addiction is that, in every frame, itself is addictive.It is completely nonstop, from the bravura Arronofsky cinema technique (split screen, complex cross-cutting scheme, hallucination visualization for driving Clint Mansell, hypnosis score (done by Kronos Quartet), the film forces you to watch it. "
However, some critics are less positive. In Tuan. Showbiz , Kevin Maynard stated that the film "has never had a heartbreaking emotional experience that seems intended." J. Rentilly charged the job as "cold and technically proficient and, too, quite hollow." Desson Thompson of The Washington Post argues that his character is "mostly passed down to human mansions in the Aronofsky visual scheme". David Sterritt of Christian Science Monitor wrote that "Aronofsky's filming became a striking addictive cynicism of his own".
Accolades
Ellen Burstyn was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Sara Goldfarb, but lost to Julia Roberts in the title role of Erin Brockovich . She was nominated for several other awards including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama Drama and Screen Actors Guild Award for Extraordinary Appearance by Female Actors in the Main Role.
In 2007, Requiem for a Dream was selected as one of 400 films nominated for the AFI 100 Year Film... 100 Film (10th Anniversary Edition). In 2012, the Motion Picture Editors Guild lists the Requirement for a Dream as the 29th most edited movie of all time based on a survey of its members. In a poll of international criticism by 2016 conducted by the BBC, the films, Toni Erdmann and Carlos were tied together and three people were voted together as the 100 biggest films since 2000.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack is composed by Clint Mansell with a string ensemble performed by Kronos Quartet. The quartet string setting was written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang.
The soundtrack was re-released with the album "Requiem for a Dream: Remixed", which contains remixes from music by Paul Oakenfold, Josh Wink, Jagz Kooner, and Delerium, among others.
See also
- List of movies featuring deaf and deaf people
References
External links
- Requiem for Dreams on IMDb
- Requiem for Dreams at AllMovie
- Requiem for Dream in Box Office Mojo
- Requiem for Dream at Rotten Tomatoes
- Requiem for Dream in Metacritic
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