Requiem For A Dream
Requiem for a Dream
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Darren Afronsky
Reichel Rating * * * *
By Brittany Reichel April 22, 2010
The traumatic dreams of four interconnected people are crushed when a drug addiction gets out of control. Every character seems to have an excuse for their addiction whether it be to lose weight, to start a business, to ‘make it big’, or just to make something of themselves. But with every high, there is always a crash and these four characters risk their lives for an ultimate high with an inevitable and life ending crash.
What is an addiction? A text book definition would remind us that it is not only physical but emotional and a habitual sacrament of one’s own body. Many people suffer day to day from addictions …show more content…
She is currently picking up on an addiction to an infomercial for life coaching skills. She receives a call from a man and that says “You’re a winner! You’re going to be on television!” After receiving this call she recaps her life and decides that the highlight of it was when her only child graduated from high school and she wore a red dress with gold shoes to his graduation ceremony. Eventually she gets diet pills to lose weight and she begins to obsess over this symbolic red dress. As she begins to lose weight and notice an empty echo in her fridge she also begins to lose her sanity. Eventually she builds up a tolerance to the drugs and she starts double dosing and popping them more and more frequently when the doctor won’t give her a higher dose. Her son on the other hand begins to fixate himself on the ideal dream of ‘the big score’. Tyrone, who is a lot like Jamie in Long Days Journey into Night, spots early on that Harry is losing it big time and you can tell by his reactions in the scenes that he is already foreshadowing the crash. Meanwhile they run out of money to get their fix and their last resort is Marion. Harry convinces her to sell her body to a dealer to get some more just until they can ‘get back on top’ says …show more content…
He represents each hit they take by a serious of noises and close ups, for instance, pupils dialating, sparking a lighter, the needle drawing the heroine out, and the rolling of the paper, the sniffing it off the table, and all of the other noises affiliated with each hit. And when they’re ‘tripping’ he shows this scene of complete peace. From an above angle that seems like they themselves aren’t really in their bodies but instead their actual view is from up above and you can see through the angles of the camera that each picture is evidential of what they really are experiencing. You can tell the distance between scenes will give you an impression of how long the drugs actually last. From the time they take effect to the time they crash it seems biologically correct time wise. But then regular everyday events seem to rush by in a flurry without a real sense of time
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Darren Afronsky
Reichel Rating * * * *
By Brittany Reichel April 22, 2010
The traumatic dreams of four interconnected people are crushed when a drug addiction gets out of control. Every character seems to have an excuse for their addiction whether it be to lose weight, to start a business, to ‘make it big’, or just to make something of themselves. But with every high, there is always a crash and these four characters risk their lives for an ultimate high with an inevitable and life ending crash.
What is an addiction? A text book definition would remind us that it is not only physical but emotional and a habitual sacrament of one’s own body. Many people suffer day to day from addictions …show more content…
She is currently picking up on an addiction to an infomercial for life coaching skills. She receives a call from a man and that says “You’re a winner! You’re going to be on television!” After receiving this call she recaps her life and decides that the highlight of it was when her only child graduated from high school and she wore a red dress with gold shoes to his graduation ceremony. Eventually she gets diet pills to lose weight and she begins to obsess over this symbolic red dress. As she begins to lose weight and notice an empty echo in her fridge she also begins to lose her sanity. Eventually she builds up a tolerance to the drugs and she starts double dosing and popping them more and more frequently when the doctor won’t give her a higher dose. Her son on the other hand begins to fixate himself on the ideal dream of ‘the big score’. Tyrone, who is a lot like Jamie in Long Days Journey into Night, spots early on that Harry is losing it big time and you can tell by his reactions in the scenes that he is already foreshadowing the crash. Meanwhile they run out of money to get their fix and their last resort is Marion. Harry convinces her to sell her body to a dealer to get some more just until they can ‘get back on top’ says …show more content…
He represents each hit they take by a serious of noises and close ups, for instance, pupils dialating, sparking a lighter, the needle drawing the heroine out, and the rolling of the paper, the sniffing it off the table, and all of the other noises affiliated with each hit. And when they’re ‘tripping’ he shows this scene of complete peace. From an above angle that seems like they themselves aren’t really in their bodies but instead their actual view is from up above and you can see through the angles of the camera that each picture is evidential of what they really are experiencing. You can tell the distance between scenes will give you an impression of how long the drugs actually last. From the time they take effect to the time they crash it seems biologically correct time wise. But then regular everyday events seem to rush by in a flurry without a real sense of time