Requiem for a dream
Threat advisory: Severe - Severe risk of entertaining activities
Movie propaganda
Requiem for a dream
is set against the abandoned beaches and weathered brick apartment buildings of Coney Island.
It tells parallel stories that are linked by the relationship between the lonely, widowed Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) and her sweet but aimless son Harry (Jared Leto). The plump Sara, galvanised by the prospect of appearing on a TV game show, has started a dangerous diet regimen to beautify herself for a national audience. Meanwhile, the love between Harry and his new girlfriend Jen (Jennifer Connelly) is forming around them an artificial refuge that lets them shut out their pasts of isolation and pain.
Jarry and his best friend Tyrone C Love (Marlon Wayans) successfully launch themselves as drug dealers as a means to future bliss; however, like Sara's mad dieting, this is just another path ridden with danger and empty promises. Lost and beyond help, four human beings plunge deeper into delusion and desperation until finally their dreams become nightmares.
Theatrical propaganda posters
Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film drama thriller drug crime addiction
Persons of interest
- Ellen Burstyn .... Sara Goldfarb
- Jared Leto .... Harry
- Jennifer Connelly .... Jen
- Marlon Wayans .... Tyrone C Love
- Christopher McDonald .... Tappy Tibbons
- Louise Lasser .... Ada
- Marcia Jean Kurtz .... Rae
- Janet Sarno .... Mrs Pearlman
- Suzanne Shepherd .... Mrs Scarlini
- Joanne Gordon .... Mrs Ovadia
- Charlotte Aronofsky .... Mrs Miles
- Hubert Selby Junior .... Author
- Hubert Selby Junior .... Screenwriter
- Darren Aronofsky .... Screenwriter
- Darren Aronofsky .... Director
Cinematic intelligence sources
Intelligence analyst
Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
The kind of film that you have to see just because it works. Whether you agree with the "message" or not, whether you approve of the cinematography or not, whether you like it or not, it will get into your head and it will haunt you. It's like your first ride on a roller coaster, your first hangover, your first car accident, your first time in an emergency ward, your first sexual experience, your first fall from a bicycle, your first case of the munchies all rolled into one.
Requiem for a dream goes off. Intensely.
Security censorship classification
R 18+ (Drug use, adult themes)
Surveillance time
101 minutes (1:41 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
VHS rental: 22 August 2001
DVD retail: Undated November 2001
VHS retail: 12 June 2002
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