Requiem For A Dream
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Requiem For a Dream is a 1978 novel and film released in the year 2000. It’s not often easy to make a movie from a book. The film was nominated for some academy awards. Read on to learn more about both the film and the book.
The novel started it all. It’s about a group of four related people. These are Harry Marion, Tyrone and Sara. Harry and Marion are a couple. Tyrone is friends with both of them. Harry’s mother is named Sara. Each of them becomes obsessed with gaining their dream. They all become addicted to something in the pursuit of their dreams. Sara is obsessed with becoming a TV star. She binges on diet pills to lose weight after a casting company hints that she might be selected. Eventually she ends up in the hospital. Harry, Marion, and Tyrone meanwhile make money by selling heroin. They start using more heroin than they sell. Nobody ends up happy.
In the movie mother and son, Sara and Harry, are the main characters along with Marion and Tyrone. The plot follows the novel fairly closely. It all happens in three seasons – summer, fall, winter.
In the Summer Sara, who is elderly and alone, watches infomercials on television all day long. She also overeats. She begins to become concerned over her weight. She eventually learns that she may appear on the infomercial. She vows to fit into the red dress she once wore to Harry’s graduation. She has to diet to do it. A doctor gives her some amphetamines to help her lose weight. She takes to many, addiction develops. Signs of this addiction are overly happy personality, and constantly grinding her teeth.
Harry and Tyrone decide to deal drugs. They think they can some day buy and sell a pound of heroin which would make them wealthy. Marion believes that the money Harry makes as a drug dealer will allow her to purchase a clothing store. Tyrone’s goal is to end his life of living on the street.
Sara’s addiction is even worse in the fall. She increases the dose because it’s no longer helping her. Soon she begins to hallucinate about her refrigerator moving around the house. The police bust Harry and Tyrone. Most of the money they have earned in the summer is used for Tyrone’s bail. They begin to use more of their product themselves.
The situation at the end is no better. Winter is the worst season for everyone in the movie. Harry is hospitalized after plunging from a roof top, Sara is institutionalized, Tyrone is in jail, and finally Marion can’t shake her own heroin addiction. Everyone except Harry ends up hallucinating a fantasy world.
Requiem for a Dream is pretty accurate in its depiction of addiction.
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