Requiem for a Dream

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Movie
German title Requiem for a Dream
Original title Requiem for a Dream
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Country of production United States
original language English , American Sign Language
Publishing year 2000
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
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Director Darren Aronofsky
script Hubert Selby
Darren Aronofsky
production Eric Watson
Palmer West
music Clint Mansell
camera Matthew Libatique
cut Jay Rabinowitz
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Requiem for a Dream is a drama of the American director Darren Aronofsky from the year 2000 , based on a novel by Hubert Selby from 1978. Selby himself also participated on the script. The visually strong and disturbing film tells the health and social decline of four drug addicts in dark colors and with partly innovative techniques. Clint Mansell's music underlines the gloomy mood.

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Chapter: Summer

Sara Goldfarb is an elderly, widowed woman standing alone and isolated in Brighton Beach , a community on Coney Iceland , Brooklyn ( New York ), lives. All of her free time is spent watching a self- fulfillment show on television called the Tappy Tibbons Show . Harold or Harry is their drug addict son, who, together with his best friend Tyrone, repeatedly surrenders his mother's television to the pawnbroker in order to use this money to finance his heroin addiction .

One day the mother receives a call from a media agency; she has the chance to appear on television. Sara mistakenly believes that it is already a promise to appear on her favorite show. To make herself chic, she can be prescribed slimming pills or appetite suppressants that contain amphetamines . The tablets actually help her to lose weight, so that she fits into a red dress she loves. But she independently increases her dose and thus gets more and more into a fixed dependency and dream world in which she can no longer distinguish between reality and fantasy.

Harry and Tyrone meanwhile begin organized drug trafficking . The initial profits make it possible to give Harry's mother a modern television set. Harry wants to open a fashion store with his girlfriend Marion, who is also addicted. You step into the dream of making big money with drug trafficking.

Chapter: Autumn

Since the addicts are now consuming ever larger amounts themselves, the profits from the drug business are melting away. After a gun battle between rival drug clans, Tyrone is also caught and placed in custody. A large part of the savings is used for the deposit . The rest of the sources are disappearing, and it's getting harder for Harry and Tyrone to get access to drugs in Brooklyn. Since money is running out too, Marion begins to prostitute herself, initially at Harry's request. The relationship seems to break because of the addiction: She initially sleeps for money with the psychiatrist Arnold and later appears at Big Tim , who now seems to be the only source of drugs in Brooklyn.

Chapter: Winter

Harry and Tyrone learn about a dealer who wants to sell expensive heroin over the Christmas holidays. The two protagonists also want to benefit from it. During the handover, the situation escalates and the dealer seeks the way out. Since the dealer's truck says “Florida”, the two decide to go to Florida to get some material.

Harry has meanwhile contracted a serious infection on his arm from dirty syringes . He wants to be treated in a hospital in South Carolina , but both are arrested. Harry is later taken to a prison hospital. Meanwhile, Sara Goldfarb comes to a closed psychiatric ward after walking neglected through the streets and other drugs have not worked . There she receives treatment with electric shocks to repair the broken psyche after her madness . Marion meets with Big Tim again, where she takes part in an orgy for heroin and some money .

Towards the end, the figures are shown one after the other in their final situation, alongside their destroyed or unfulfilled dreams.

Harry has a dream in which Marion is waiting for him on a jetty on Coney Island . Upon awakening, he discovers that he is lonely in captivity and that his arm has been amputated . Sara receives a visit from her friends, but is no longer receptive to contact. One sequence shows Tyrone, Marion and Sara in an embryonic position . Sara dreams of being acclaimed on her beloved TV show: she has won an award and Harry appears. In her imagination, Harry is a successful businessman who is engaged to Marion. There is a hug between mother and son. The audience begins to applaud, the camera fades out.

Awards

The film won a total of 20 international film awards and was nominated for a further 33 awards.

In 2016, Requiem for a Dream took a shared 100th place in a BBC survey of the 100 most important films of the 21st century .

particularities

  • The music track " Lux Aeterna " by Clint Mansell , recorded a. a. from the Kronos Quartet , thanks to its high level of memorability and its important dramaturgical function in the film , it has brought it to two releases and was used several times in trailers for other films (including in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers , The Da Vinci Code - Da Vinci Code , Sunshine and Babylon AD ).
  • The producing studio Artisan Entertainment refused to shorten the film, whereupon it was not approved for young people by the MPAA in the USA.
  • The fast cutting is a kind of trademark of Darren Aronofsky . Significant, repetitive images are shown in short, often faster cuts and combined with matching, often overly loud noises. Viewed individually, they appear sober and matter-of-fact, but in quick succession, a trance-like impression emerges. In Requiem for a Dream there are around 2000 cuts - normal are 600 to 700. The effect is often reinforced by unusual camera perspectives , such as the so-called Snorricam .
  • Jared Leto claims to befriend real New York drug addicts in preparation for his role.
  • In two consecutive camera shots, Jennifer Connelly can only be seen crouching in the bathtub from a bird's eye view; In the following shot, her face is dipped into the water and screams. These exactly adopted shots represent Aronofsky's homage to the film Perfect Blue .
  • The end of the film is reminiscent of the 1969 film Asphalt Cowboy . There, too, two socially failed friends, played by Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight , travel from New York to Florida at the end of the film in the hope of a better life. This also fails because of the illness of the weaker Rizzo (Hoffman), who dies during the trip.

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"The director makes use of both extreme and radical cinematic means and increases the realism of the story to a cinematic and emotional delirium that may appear manipulative to some viewers, but hardly anyone can escape access."

- Lexicon of international film

“You rarely see a film in which the play of the mimes, the music, the images and the development of the story form such a homogeneous unit. [...] 'Requiem for a dream' is one of the film masterpieces of the last few years. "

- Ulrich Behrens : at www.filmstarts.de

“Stunning masterpiece - optically, acoustically and acting absolutely terrific. [...] There are probably only a few films that have such a strong effect on the viewer as this one. […] Some people go so far as to say that 'Requiem for a Dream' is the best movie they have ever seen and that they never want to see it again. "

- David Hiltscher : at www.filmspiegel.de

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of awards and nominations
  2. ↑ Gayl Murphy: Leto Goes to Extremes for Junkie Role. In: abcnews.go.com. Retrieved July 29, 2012 (November 7, year unknown).
  3. ↑ a b [1] at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on October 14, 2014
  4. ↑ a b [2] at Metacritic , accessed on October 14, 2014
  5. ↑ Requiem for a Dream in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  6. ^ Requiem for a Dream. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  7. ^ Ulrich Behrens: Requiem for a Dream. In: FILMSTARTS.de. FILMSTARTS.de GbR, accessed on August 30, 2008 .
  8. ^ David Hiltscher: Requiem for a Dream. In: filmspiegel.de. filmspiegel.de, accessed on August 30, 2008 .