Requiem for A Dream

Requiem for A Dream is based a film of the US-American director Darren Aronofsky of 2000, on a novel of stroke ore Selby of 1978. Selby drew also for the film script jointly responsibly. In dark colors and with partly innovative techniques in the visually strong film the social fall is told by four drug-addicted. Despite the film is approved partial explicitly sexual and drastically represented force scenes in Germany starting from 16 years. The music, easily of the crowning OS quartet, underlines the dark tendency.

action

Sara gold color (inches Burstyn) lives alone and office for association in the heruntergekommenen Coney Iceland, Brooklyn (New York town center). Their entire spare time consists of looking a self fulfilment show on the television; Harry (Jared Leto) is their drug-addicted son, who delivers the television of the nut/mother again and again with the pawnbroker, in order to finance itself from this money its craze.

A daily receives the nut/mother a call from a medium agency; it has the chance to arise on the television. In order send yourself to make, can it to slimness pills (Amphetamin) be used up, so that it fits in of their estimated red dress. The pills help to actually decrease her, but increase them independently their dose and turn out so ever more into a dream world, with respect to which them cannot differentiate reality and fantasy any longer.

Harry and its friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) begin to dealen meanwhile. The profits make possible it to give Harrys nut/mother a modern television. They increase into the dream inside to make with drug trade the large money. The two fail however exactly the same as Harry and Marion (Jennifer Connelly), its friend, with their dream of a lucky future.

Mechanically the cycle from music, party, is increased excess and Paranoia until Marion - first on demand Harrys - prostituiert itself, loses Harry due to an infection its arm and by an incident in the prison lands Tyrone. The nut/mother gets, after she ran keep-drawn by the roads and other medicines did not fasten, treatments with electrical shocks, in order to repair the wrecked psyche after their illusion. The unification of the individual fates to an unusually unpleasant high point belongs probably also to the most intensive one, what was shown ever in a film.

honors

• OSCAR nominating for best Hauptdarstellerin (inches Burstyn)

• golden Globe nominating for best presentation of an actress in a film (inches Burstyn)

characteristics

• the minimalistic film music of Clint Mansell, pulled too equivalent two publications through from bringing in the crowning OS of caper quartet and Technobeats, it to thanks of their high stamping SAMness and their important dramaturgischen function in the film brought. In particular the melancholische main topic enjoys of a relatively high admitting heating degree, which led among other things to the fact that it in the Trailer to master of the rings - the two towers in an orchestra arrangement to hear was.

• The Hip Hop assembly is a kind brand name of Darren Aronofsky. Here characteristic, repeating pictures on short, are shown often faster becoming average and connected also in addition for suitable, often over-loud noises. Individually regarded they work soberly and essentially, but in rapid succession a drink-similar impression results one behind the other. Thus A Dream are 2000 cuts in Requiem for - 600 to 700 is normal. The effect is strengthened often by unusual camera perspectives like the Headcam in such a way specified.

• The producing Studio Artisan refused shortening the film whereupon he did not get a youth release of the MPAA.

• The director, Darren Aronofsky, explained that he could write the film script only, after he saw that neither Harry nor Sarah are still somebody else the main person, but the craze.

• Jared Leto makes friends itself - according to own data - for preparation on its role with genuine New Yorker June gravel.

• The film criticized for its - due to the book collecting main of 1978 - no longer current view on drug craze and in particular their treatment.

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