Monday, 16 April 2012
Requiem for a Dream is a movie directed by Darren Aronofsky
and starring Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly. The movie is based on a novel of
Hubert Selby Jr. also called Requiem for a Dream.
It is a drama that tells the story of four people that were
trapped by different kinds of addiction. Three of the characters (Harry, Tyrone
and Marion) are addicted to heroin. Sara (Harry’s mother) is addicted to
television; at a certain point of the plot the viewer is able to find a parallelism between the addiction of Harry, Tyrone and Marion to
heroin and Sara’s addiction. Later in the movie Sara begins to take diet
pills, and also becomes addicted to it. As the movie develops, the viewer is taken
into a world of addictions and learns how addictions affect your whole life. In
the end of the movie we watch the life of all characters falling apart. Each
character curls into fetal position, a position that has been observed in drug
addicts when they are experiencing withdrawal.
Some people claim that this movie is a movie about drugs.
But, in my opinion this movie isn’t about drugs, it is about how people are not
aware of what an addiction is. The definition of addiction is having a
continued behaviour despite of its adverse consequences. With this definition
of addiction we are able to understand that we can be addicted to anything, and
that all addictions are harmful, although some of them act faster than others.
Ellen Burstyn was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Sara Goldfarb. She was nominated
for several other awards including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress -
Motion Picture Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding
Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. The movie also won the
Chlodtrudis Award for Best Film, and was nominated for the Chlodtrudis Award
for Best Adapted Screenplay. Marlon Wayans and Jennifer Connelly also recieved
nominations at the Chlotrudis Award.
Diana Barros