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Actors: Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Ellen Burstyn
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Requiem for a Dream |
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Sara Goldfarb is a lonely widow whose only joy is her son Harry's infrequent visits, and the idea that she may be on television. She wants to wear her red dress on the television, but it no longer fits her. She goes to the doctor, who prescribes her some pills.
The movie is a raw, extremely real account of her descent into her addiction, parralleled with her son and his friend's addiction to heroin.
--Darcy Nichols, Resident Scholar
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A man, his girlfriend, his best friend, and his mother, deal with drug addictions in their own way. Each character, however, ends up worse than they started off. This film emphasizes disastrous effects of drug addictions and withdrawl.
--kevin reschke, Resident Scholar
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After watching this movie four times,I have vowed never to watch it again. The raw and real depiction of four people caught in thier obsesion and addiction left me speechless and heart broken at the movies end. Jennifer Conelley delivers an incredible performance as Marion, proving she is a greatly underapreciated actress. But Marlon Wayans performance surprised me the most proving he can domore than B comedy roles. Requiem for a Dream was tough to watch but hard to look away from.
--Alex, Resident Scholar
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This is a timeless masterpiece, filmed on a low budget, with a vision realized. Amazing performances abound, intertwined with beautiful imagery and a rivoting score. The struggle between reality and delusion is portrayed incredibly. This is a love story of epic preportions marred by addiction, need, and hopelessness. The characters are played so well, it will touch the most robotic viewer. Please see this movie, if only for the hour and forty minutes you will learn about human nature...
--ryan stone, Resident Scholar
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An incredibly strong movie. It's hard to convey the feeling you get after watching these peoples worlds come flooding down on them and even at the end you know there's still so much more that can happen and probably does. I personally thought the romance was particularly moving because I think they really did love each others it's just, as in so many love stories, evil outside influences made them do evil things. Or perhaps it would be better to say evil inner influences.
--Jenn, Resident Scholar
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Inexplicably gorgeous film. To summarize the plot would cheapen it. Vicious, shock, grit, tooth. Avant-garde filmmaking, virtuosic effects. Astonishing acting. Beauty and waste slashed open with a dirty scalpel. Awesome climax that left my quivering mouth gaping, tears streaming in at odd Cubist angles. Watch this film. Kill for this film. Construct idols and bury them in a closet under the forgotten ashes. Worship them in prayers on your eyelids.
--mark barden, Resident Scholar
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The writer-director of the intense and visually arresting "Pi" returns with a vividly colorful and well acted portrayal of descent into addiction. Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly are a young couple in love -- casual heroin users who become serious addicts while hoping to score a big money deal with a friend (Marlon Wayans) on a heroin sale. Leto's mother, astoundingly done by Ellen Burstyn, starts out addicted to a certain inspirational TV show, and under the delusion that she will be called to appear on it becomes addicted to diet pills. All three central characters' problems are viscerally displayed through visual tricks, music and sound, and fearless acting. The movie is harrowing, stunning, and a terrifying triumph.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Requiem for a Dream |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- life in drug culture
Druggie/Wino problems?
- drugs
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- deluded
- emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Body type
- (man) very skinny
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
- sensitive to others' feelings
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Body type
- (woman) very skinny
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Style
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- use of artificial tools
- orgies
- lesbians!
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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