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Some people just connect better with chemicals.

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She was chasing after summer like she was chasing down her high

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THESE GLASSES HAVE SPECIAL LENSES WHICH TURN LIGHTS INTO HEARTS

edit: for everyone asking they’re called love lenses & they were $20 on lovelenses.com

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Requiem For a Dream: How addiction remove people from their dream

Requiem For A Dream is an American film from 2000 based on Hubert Selby Jr’s 1978 novel. It is a tragedy film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans and Jared Leto. Ellen Burstyn has performed so well that she was nominated for the 2000 Academy Awards for Best Actress. This movie, which was introduced at the Cannes film festival and made a tremendous impression with its music, both disturbed the audience and at the same time admired its unusual style. It also affected me in many ways.

 The film progresses in the representation of three different seasons: summer, autumn and winter. Its main subject is “addiction”. The process of drug addiction has been handled so well that I think any addict watching this movie can quit drugs. The feeling of being irrational is conveyed to the audience very successfully.

The character Sera, played by Ellen Burstyn, which impresses me most in the film and which I watch with sadness, is actually the key point of the events. Sera is an old woman who is not visited by her son much, who has no one except a few friends and spends all day watching television at home. She’s so caught up in television that she gets caught up in a phone call one day informing her that she is entitled to participate in a TV show. She tries to lose weight when she can’t fit the dress she wants to wear on TV and starts weight loss pills with the doctor’s advice. But the pills she takes lead her into an even greater psychological depression. She is unaware that it has a heavy consequence such as addiction. She begins to see hallucinations over the food.

Here we actually observe two addictions. First, television addiction, and secondly, drug addiction due to TV addiction. In fact, the character of Sera metaphorically shows us what kind of consequences loneliness and the resulting psychological depression can have. However, we can clearly see the representation of the lifestyle of the American society of that time; and todays’ whole world with this character: watching television and consuming food. These two actually take the whole life of humanity and cause it to spend months and years like this. It takes away from socialization and logic.

Sara’s son Harry (Jared Leto), his close friend Tyrone and his girlfriend Marion are also addicted to drugs. They have a life they live on buying and selling drugs. The main addiction here is the desire to earn money. Behind this addiction of everyone, including Sara, underlying on a dream. Like getting rich, getting on TV, making dreams come true … In the beginning everything is beautiful, and they make a good amount of money. This is the summer part where things are the best. In the autumn, things get a little out of the way. Here we witness drug gangs, conflicts, worsening of Marion’s already existing psychological problems, dangers. While Marion has an unwanted sexual intercourse to earn money, Harry begins to take drugs intravenously. Tyrone finds himself in a dangerous situation inside the gang. Sara also gets worse and worse. Drugs and their own spiritual addiction drive them more and more from their true goals and dreams.

The last part of the movie is quite impressive and sad. It is good that it is disturbing, because this movie clearly shows us the representation of our indispensable addictions, and this way we better understand how disturbing the consequences it can have. The last section is the winter section. Now everyone is disconnected from real life and their lives have become irreversible. Dreams fail in the face of addiction. According to the opinion of some critics, this movie is actually how the American Dream ended. I do not want to give spoiler, but I can say that everyone’s life ends in disappointment.

There is also a medical criticism in this movie. The doctors give Sara the pills without thinking, knowing, or caring about their effects. No subsequent treatment can reverse this error of carelessness.

Another aspect of the film that impressed me is its images. I found it very successful in artistic terms. With extreme close-up, it is highly successful to have repeated images of drug taking, the sound effects used in parallel with this scenes, the continuous emphasis of the dilation of the pupil, and the inclusion of abstract images in the meantime. The rhythm is very well captured. The dishes we see in the hallucination scenes are also remarkably successful and impressive. There is a stop motion technique in the food scenes.

 There may be people who find this movie offensive - they are right - but I think you should definitely add it to your movie list and watch it as soon as possible. The metaphorical messages he gives meet with the audience successfully.

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     JENNIFER CONNELLY  in Requiem for a Dream (2000)

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I'm somebody now, Harry. Everybody likes me. Soon, millions of people will see me and they'll all like me. I'll tell them about you, and your father, how good he was to us. Remember? It's a reason to get up in the morning. It's a reason to lose weight, to fit in the red dress. It's a reason to smile. It makes tomorrow all right. What have I got Harry, hm? Why should I even make the bed, or wash the dishes? I do them, but why should I? I'm alone. Your father's gone, you're gone. I got no one to care for. What have I got, Harry?

REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000) dir. Darren Aranofsky