Requiem for a Dream 2000 123movies

Watch: Requiem for a Dream 2000 123movies, Full Movie Online – Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a retired widow, living in a small apartment. She spends most of her time watching TV, especially a particular self-help show. She has delusions of rising above her current dull existence by being a guest on that show. Her son, Harry (Jared Leto) is a junkie but along with his friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) has visions of making it big by becoming a drug dealer. Harry’s girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) could be fashion designer or artist but is swept along in Harry’s drug-centric world. Meanwhile Sara has developed an addiction of her own. She desperately wants to lose weight and so goes on a crash course involving popping pills, pills which turn out to be very addictive and harmful to her mental state..
Plot: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
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	8.3/10 Votes: 840,283
	78% | RottenTomatoes
	68/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 8485 Popularity: 12.167 | TMDB

Reviews:

Shattering expose of the fallible human condition.

What to say about Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream that hasn’t been said already? Without doubt it’s a film, that in spite of its high standing on the main movie sites, polarises opinions. It’s a film that in simple terms follows four people through their addictions until the shattering denouement, but the journey is made more bleak by offering tantalising snatches of hope, the dreams of the protags offered up as some sort of goals for the addicts to cling on to – only for the narrative to stick in its rusty serrated blade to draw the lifeblood from the hapless hopefuls.

Arononfsky brings a multitude of technical skills to the party that emphasise the emotional discord on show. Standard split-screening is married up with rapid cutting, isolated framing, close ups, long tracking and Snorricam, all of which is sound tracked by Clint Mansell’s haunting musical composition. All told it’s an assault on all the senses and terrifying with it, boosted no end by Aronofsky getting top performances from his cast of actors. Love it or hate it, it’s a film that simply can’t be ignored, unsparing cinema produced by a most gifted director. 9/10

Only my second viewing of this, last time probably was when it came out on DVD, and not one I’ll re-watch anytime soon, but still a great drama featuring incredible performances, most notably Ellen Burstyn who was worthy of her Oscar nomination. Has some darkly wild moments and a swing in tones, guess giving viewers insights into the highs and lows of heroine use. Not entertaining in so much as fascinating film worth it for some of the visuals and acting. **4.5/5**

“Requiem” Is a Heavyweight
You will not so much as want to take a sip of wine after watching this mesmerizing film about the horrors of drug addiction. I was not a fan of director Darren Aronofsky’s debut film “Pi,” but with this movie he proves to be a filmmaker of unlimited vision and style. Four characters in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn are all driven to despair due to their drug abuse, the saddest being Ellen Burstyn as a nice Jewish widow who unwittingly becomes addicted to prescription diet pills that help her lose weight but drag her into a world of hallucinations and paranoia. Burstyn is superb. It is so refreshing to see such a great veteran like her in such a challenging leading role, one in which she goes through a hell worse than that in “The Exorcist.”

But this is a director’s film if there ever was one. Aronofsky knows how to tell a story in a way that is dazzling in its use of sound, editing, and cinematography. The score by the Kronos Quartet and Clint Mansell is the most striking movie music I have heard in a very long time.

“Requiem for a Dream” is not a movie for everyone. It is the essence of independent filmmaking, a daring, engrossing, artful film that stays with you long after you leave the theater. Hollywood bubblegum this ain’t.

when dreams and nightmares collide…
My God! “Requiem for a Dream” (2000), what a movie! It’s always difficult to write reviews about perfect movies but I’m going to try. First, there are three adjectives which come to my mind to describe this movie and they’re the ones which everyone thinks of: powerful, harrowing and heart-breaking and certain sequences remain engraved in the memories like for example, Jared Leto’s wounded arm caused by drug.

To watch “Requiem for a Dream” is like being punched in the face. It’s the kind of movie which can’t leave indifferent. It is impossible to come out of this horrifying movie unharmed. It was made by a young director Darren Aronofsky whose previous movie “Pi” (1998) was very hailed. I must admit that I wasn’t fully convinced by this indie movie but here, without a doubt, the director entirely hypnotized me and I thank him for that.

The movie was made from a novel written by Hubert Selby Jr. It isn’t the first time that a work from this novelist is adapted for the screen. Indeed, in 1989, Uli Edel had shot “Last Exit to Brooklyn” which developed a nightmarish and apocalyptic vision of a mankind who lived in hell. Here, the movie focuses on 4 main characters. There’s Harry Goldfarb. He, his girlfriend Marion Silver and his best mate Tyrone C Love plan to become high-rolling smack dealers. In the meantime, his mother Sarah Goldfarb has got her head in the clouds. She received a call and she learned that she’s going to appear on television. At the beginning of the film, the 4 characters’ hopes amazingly answers the shiny weather of the summer. But as we usually say: best things have an end. Summer will go away to leave place to fall and winter. Just like the dreams will slowly but surely shatter and the 4 main protagonists will embark on an endless suffering. A vertiginous descent into hell like we have never seen one and which will reach its climax in winter in the last half-hour of the movie. From this moment, the film presents a flood of incredible pictures; they are so painful so much that they make the view unbearable. However, you watch it flabbergasted with both repulsion and fascination.

Darren Aronofsky invites us to a climbing in the morbid. “Requiem for a Dream” strikes by its visual and sonorous frenzy. Through, accelerated frenetic sequences, hysterical split-screens, parallel images, the director doesn’t pull his punches to describe this diving in absolute horror for the 4 characters. However, in his crazy making, there’s none form of unwarranted nature. The features previously quoted may be disturbing but necessary to answer several things which aren’t pleasant to hear like for example, to denounce the omnipresence of the consumer society. These abuses express themselves, here, by the crushing presence of objects, perfectly representative of this society like the television or the refrigerator. The another goals of the film: to make us share the physical and moral sufferings of a drug addict, notably through the deterioration of their visual and sonorous perceptions. But also to show us in a straight-forward and rough way, the dependence of a drug addict on his drug. Aronofsky’s message is simple to understand. There’s not only the drug like cocaine or amphetamines that make dependent but also simple objects apparently harmless which can become dangerous like the television or the refrigerator. They can destroy our faculties of reasoning and judgment. In a way “Requiem for a Dream” illustrates very well Brad Pitt’s key cue in “Fight Club” (1999): “things you own end up owning you…”. On the other hand, if we put the stress on drug, the least we can say is that the moments of shooting, the withdrawal times are showed with a realism and bluntness rarely reached. True, “Trainspotting” (1996) had already presented similar scenes but Darren Aronofsky isn’t afraid to go further in daring.

It would be unfair to neglect the terrific cast. Beginning with Ellen Burstyn who in all respects gives a dazzling performance. She renders very well the degeneration of her character. In the beginning, she is a normal old lady but in the end, she looks like a senseless living dead. Why didn’t she get her Oscar in 2001 instead of Julia Roberts in “Erin Brockovich” (2000)? Then, concerning Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly well their sensitiveness and fragility are impressive. But the biggest surprise is Marlon Wayans. Who could have thought that he could be at ease in a comic role (Scary Movie) as well as in a dramatic role? These 4 actors make particularly harrowing the very last sequences of the film which show them forever in the depths of despair or madness where pain, humiliation and misery suffer into them. And then, during the final credits, we can hear the sea with a little of relief as if we had just made a nightmare.

But what is extraordinary in Aronofsky’s work is that he manages to find a little place for humor which acts in an efficient way. In conclusion, this young film-maker has shot a film with a real emotional power. I must confess that I almost shed a tear several times. “Requiem for a Dream” is a movie I highly recommend but beware! It’s not a movie for everyone and for the spectators who didn’t watch it, I advise you not to see it if you are in a sad mood. It demands a strong stomach and I think the people who say they weren’t afraid during the projection are liars. Don’t forget your handkerchief.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 42 min (102 min)
Budget 4500000
Revenue 7390108
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Drama
Director Darren Aronofsky
Writer Hubert Selby Jr., Darren Aronofsky
Actors Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 37 wins & 70 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Surround 7.1, Dolby Digital, Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Gold II, Panavision Ultra Speed MKII Lenses, Bell & Howell Eyemo, Panavised Arri-3, Panavision Panastar, Sony Betacam Cameras (video segments)
Laboratory DeLuxe, Toronto, Canada (color), Trinitite Studio (sound laboratory)
Film Length 2,799 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 100T 5248, Fuji Super F-500T 8572)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2020 remaster), Dolby Vision, Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm