Loved it

Rating: 8/10 (29 July 2013)

The plot for this film "Requiem for a Dream", is about four people Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn), her son Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto) Harry's friend Tyrone C. Love (Marlon Wayans) and Harry's girlfriend Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly). Sara, Harry, Tyrone and Marion are all dealing with personal issues, and battling addiction with drugs, and being accepted by others and finding their place life.
Sara is a widow who is trying to get back to her past self when she was thinner, happy and when people needed her. Sara becomes fixated on getting back into this red dress, with the gold heels, and her red hair. Sara thinks by taking diet pills, and watching infomercials that she will become a contestant on a show and everyone will accept her and she will be needed. Harry is a dope fiend who is trying to find his place in the world but falls short due to his drug habits. Tyrone is also fighting a battle that has to do with his childhood and being accepted by his mother, he wants to be accepted and loved and turns to drugs also, which in the end leaves him alone. Marion is a drug addict as well and has plans of opening a store and becoming a designer but due to lack of money she has to have sex with people to get money to feed her drug habit. The theme for, Requiem for a Dream, in my opinion is a movie dealing with drug addiction, loneliness, depression, finding acceptance, and dealing with personal life issues. Sara, Harry, Marion, and Tyrone are all chasing a dream, to be wealthy, happy, loved and accepted by others. Sara's addiction is diet pills. Harry, Tyrone, and Marion's drugs are heroine, and cocaine. These drugs are the reason that Sara, Harry, Tyrone, and Marion suffer, become an addict, and the reason their lives spiral out of control. For some people being accepted by their peers is everything in life. That's why some people like to have money, and be flashy when it comes to their clothes, and hanging out with their peers. For example, when Sara was in her kitchen talking to Harry he who is an addict himself was trying to persuade his mother to stop taking those diet pills. However, she wasn't hearing anything he was saying to her. All Sara kept talking about was that red dress, and how when she was sitting outside she was the center of attention, how she had the best seat and how everyone cared and listened to her and was interested in her life. That was the satisfaction she was looking for and wanted and getting on that show is what mattered and she was willing to do whatever it took to get that fix she was chasing, even if that meant becoming addicted to diet pills. In my opinion I think that Basketball Diaries has the same theme as Requiem for a Dream, drugs addiction, prostitution, and robbing people to get his drugs. This movie is about a basketball player who had everything going for him was on a good basketball team, went to a good school, but then a change in his life came and it turned him to a life of crime because he got hooked on drugs and he was chasing and trying to feed his addiction. I think that the reoccurring motif in this film is addiction, and satisfaction from other people. All four characters had an addiction that needed to be feed and wanted satisfaction from their peers. That's why they all did the things they did, from Sara getting on the diet pills, dying her hair red, watching the infomercials and stalking the mailman every day. To Harry wanting to sell drugs so he can make a better life, have money, and not have to steal from his mother anymore. Lighting and angles of the movie Requiem for a Dream in my opinion fit the movie. The angles that were shot in different scenes showed what everyone individually was doing or going through. The lighting was natural in some scenes but was dark in others for example in the beginning of the movie when the screen was split and Sara was on one side locked in the room and Harry was on the other side arguing with her about her television. The audience could tell that there was something going on and it was wrong. I knew within the first few seconds of the film that Harry was on drugs when I heard them arguing over her television set. In my opinion Requiem for a Dream was a very good movie it showed how being overly obsessed with what people think about you can ruin your life. These four individuals Sara, Harry, Tyrone, and Marion let drugs and their unhappiness for the way their lives where going consume them. This movie just showed how chasing the "American Dream" can kill you.