“Requiem for a dream”: as darkish as hell | EUROtoday

As such, the final quarter of an hour of the movie is a dive into the just about insufferable abyss. We are witnessing the bodily and ethical decline of this quartet. Every day, Sara seems to be in her keep a silly tv sport the place the presenter always claims on the microphone “We Got A Winner! (“We have a winner!”). But, in Requiemfor sure, there are only losers.

Addict and notch

“This film was difficult, uncomfortable, sad, exhausting. I had a lot of trouble getting out, ”said Ellen Burstyn to the magazine Firstin April 2001. She indeed lost twenty kilos for the purposes of the role of Sara, which earned her an appointment to the Oscar for best actress in 2001 (it was Julia Roberts who won the statuette in her place to Erin Brockovich by Steven Soderbergh). On the set, the actors were all on the edge. Jared Leto also hungry to interpret Harry, Sara’s Camel’s son. He lost a dozen kilos.

To show the mental confinement of his characters, the director Darren Aronofsky created an extremely stylized visual universe with the help of his director of the Fetish photo, Matthew Lebatique, Head of Philippin-American who enlightened all his films with the exception of The Wrestler. Stroboscopic images, macroscopic sockets, subjective camera, Split Screensound gimmicks, very studied camera movements: Requiem for a Dream is a visual maelstrom which combines very short plans (spoon, lighter, powder, boiling, syringe, injection, red blood cells, dilated pupil …) to provoke a reaction in the spectator. We can talk about here about sampling visual.

Twenty-five years after its release, Requiem is studied in faculties and in the addictology departments of certain hospitals. Reserved for a very informed audience, this Bad trip Under acid is still as a nightmare. The syncopated music of Clint Mansell, accompanied by violins of the Kronos Quartet, transmits the inevitable character of the fatality which will crescendo in the film. With this work which generates immense empathy towards his characters, Aronofsky affirmed his integrity and singularity as a great filmmaker. But, if you are impressionable, you have to repeat yourself in a loop during this cinema session: “It’s only a movie, it is only a movie …”