Requiem for a Dream

In the movie, the director uses editing to make scenes go much faster than they would be if there was no editing, The mother, gets addicted to her perscription drugs that are suppossed to be helping her with her diet. She is ashemed of her son of being addicted to drugs at the beginning of the movie, but then she gets addicted to her pills towards the middle to the end of the movie. The director uses editing to show what is going through the mothers head and the audience can see that. When the doctor comes in the room, the mother does not hear anything that he says and all of the scene is fast forward into one short scene. The audience would get the sense that the mother is just in her own world and is not actually aware of what is going on. When she turns on the TV, this is also how the director uses the same technique to show repetition between the mother and the TV. Th mother evolves into the same character as her son, his girlfriend as his friend. When at the beginning of the movie, she was totally different.

Every time that the actors get high, there are a serious of scenes that only last a second and one of the last ones is this one of the actors eye. There are needles, heroin, blood cells, and other things that all make up these mini scenes to kind of show that they got high and to transition from them being not high, to them being high, This allows them to get high without actually showing them inserting the needle and getting high on the camera. The audience gets the point during these short scenes and is definitely gets more and more dramatic as the movie and the characters progress. In the beginning of the movie, the actors get high a few times but it defintely gets more and more repetative towards the end of the movie. The music and sounds during this time are also very dramatic and give the sense that the characters are sort of giving up on themselves by getting high so much.  The audience sees the stress and pain in the last mini scene and this is the eye of the character. The pupils and the redness in the eyes would show that they are being stressed and feel pain. The little lines of redness in their eye is definitly dramatic and makes the audiece feel for them.

Work Cited

Movie:

Aronofsky, Darren, director. Requiem for a Dream. 2000. Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly

Images:

“The Darren Aronofsky Retrospective: ‘Requiem for a Dream’.” Movie Mezzanine, 3 Nov. 2013, moviemezzanine.com/the-darren-aronofsky-retrospective-requiem/.

“Requiem for a Dream (2000).” IMDb, IMDb.com, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/mediaviewer/rm1012735232.