Requiem for a Dream

When Marion is leaving Arnold's flat for the first time you can see some parts of the steady cam outlined under her coat.

When she catches some wind while leaving the building, the coat is lifted up for some instants and you can actually see them.

In the pullback shot of Harry when his arm is missing, you can see under the sheets the outline of his left arm pressed up against his body.

When Harry calls Marion from the hospital she picks the phone up with her right hand and puts it on her left ear but when the camera focuses on her it's on her right ear.

This is almost certainly a mirror shot, not a mistake.

Whenever someone takes drugs and their pupils "dilate" you can see that it's a normal eye being distorted by a computer because the arc of reflected light also is distorted.

When Sara is trying on the red dress but it won't zip up all the way, in the mirror behind her you can see the 'fat suit' used to give 'Ellen Burstyn' (qv) the larger appearance.

When the two ladies visit Sara and are outside sitting on a bench, you can clearly see at the right lower part of the bench the cotton trying to appear as snow.

At two different times during the movie (when Marion, Harry and Tyrone are discussing the possibility of getting heroin from Brody, and when Harry is sitting around waiting for Tyrone to come back with Brody's heroin), records are supposedly playing, but the tone arms are in the 'up' position and the stylus is sitting above the record.

When Harry is waiting for Tyrone to return with the drugs, we can see Harry playing with a turntable.

The shot of the turntable itself shows Harry's left hand on the record.

In the next shot, his right hand is in the turntable.

When Harry and Tyrone pawn the TV, there is a goose-neck lamp behind Mr.

Rabinowitz that changes position between shots.

The purse strap changes positions between shots when Marion heads to and enters the elevator.

When Marion leaves Albert's apartment and runs onto the street to vomit it is raining heavily, however when she arrives back home her hair and clothes are completely dry.

When Marion stabs Arnold in the hand with a fork, you can see fork marks on the fake hand from rehearsal.

When surgeons amputate a limb, they first remove the muscles/tendons and the nerves, and then they cut through the bone.

They do not simply saw through the flesh as depicted here.

When Harry is on Marion's bed, he has his arms in his sweatshirt.

In the next shot, his arms are out of his sweatshirt.

When the characters take Heroin, either injected or snorted, the sequence showing their eyes dilating is inaccurate.

Opiates produce a constricting of the pupil.

However, the dilating is correct when the characters are using Ecstasy and Cocaine.

Marion's bangs when she is at dinner with Arnold near the end of the movie constantly change from being behind her ears to down in her face.

When the paper airplane is made it is snub nosed (there is no point on the front), whereas when it is thrown from the tower it has a pointed nose.

(at around 1h 10 mins) Sara is in her apartment wearing her red dress, creeping around trying to avoid her refrigerator, popping her pills and watching herself appear all dressed up on Tappy's show.

There is a pot on the stove and her vacuum cleaner in front of the stove.

At different cuts in the same scenes, the stove is alternately clean or has pots and items on it, and the vacuum cleaner is there or missing, or changes position.

(It is possible that some of these changes occur because Sara is hallucinating.

) When Harry and Tyrone are leaving New York for Florida, Tyrone pricks Harry to the right arm.

You can see pain in Harry's face.

But as we know Harry's wounded in his left arm.

The movie is average to me, it shows a woman wants to be fit by using pills but it goes wrong, in the other hand his son is a drug peddler along with a partner.

One of the more terrifying things about Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream is how numerous extras appear to just 'exist' amidst proceedings and merely get on with their own lives, fleetingly mentioning the odd happening from recent times, as they intermingle with the film's core characters whom are witnessing their own existences fall apart at their very seams. Watching these people going about their business on screen reminds us of the same way those figures, or people, in our nightmares mingle around in the background as we dream on we're aware of them, much like the central characters are aware of them here, but we cannot really make them out nor indeed really work out what it is they're saying or plotting.

This movie was a blast for me and I thought it was very very well done. A must see for sure, although not for general audience (some humor but tough scenes, both on the emotional side and to some extent, some violence coming from the sordid environment).

Being a heroin addict myself i was amazed how this film showed people without a heroin addiction (most people)the horror of what its like. I too had an abscess that if it was another 24 hours would've required amputation.

When my friend told me to watch Requiem for a Dream, I didn't know what to expect. I thought it would be another 'Don't do drugs kids!

Words cannot really describe this movie its just great. This movie is definitely not easy to watch though as it deals with drugs and the effects it has on peoples lives.

To view a film like Requiem you must approach it with a different set of goals than you would with most other films. The film takes you through the lives of four addicts who's addictions eradicate exactly that, their lives.

There have been tons of films that depict addictive drug abuse, but no film does it quite like Darren Aronofsky does in "Requiem for a Dream," using camera techniques to mess with your mind and visually drive you insane, much like the characters of the film spiral into drug-induced oblivion. The film is not particularly insightful--it is an independent film-- whose goal is clearly to make a film that shows drug abuse in a way never done before.

This is just "Panic in Needle Park" with indulgent camera effects and---with the exception of Ellen Burstyn---sub-par acting. Jennifer Connelly and Jared Leto mail it in.