Requiem for a Dream
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Four connected individuals in Coney Island pursue their respective visions of happiness and validation, only to watch their ambitions and dependencies spiraling into devastating physical and emotional consequences.
Movie Information
- Release Year
- 2000
- IMDb Rating
- 8.3/10
- Language
- English
- Director
- Darren Aronofsky
- Writer / Screenplay
- Hubert Selby Jr., Darren Aronofsky
- Based On
- Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
- Producers
- Eric Watson, Palmer West
- Starring
- Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
- Cinematography
- Matthew Libatique
- Editing
- Jay Rabinowitz
- Music
- Clint Mansell
Genres
My Take
Requiem for a Dream is one of those movies that shows how something we desperately want can slowly become the thing that destroys us.
For me, this movie is not only about addiction. It is about loneliness, dreams, love, validation, obsession, and the human desire to feel that our life means something. Every person in the movie is chasing a different dream, but slowly the dream begins controlling them instead.
That is what affected me most. Addiction does not always begin with wanting to destroy ourselves. Sometimes it begins with something very human—the desire to feel better, to be loved, to succeed, or simply to escape our reality.
The movie becomes more painful as those hopes slowly disappear.
Sometimes we chase a dream so desperately that we don't notice when the dream starts consuming us.