The Effective Scoring of Requiem for a Dream

I'm done. This is too much. Are there films you just couldn't watch twice? What was it?!

This is a movie that makes me feel like I’m having a panic attack. The effect of the final sequence’s score is absolutely overwhelming and scarring.

This movie horrified me as a teenager. My mom showed it to my siblings and I to scare us away from doing hard drugs, since our family has a history of addiction and drug abuse, and she was worried me and my sisters would fall down the same path. I can say for sure that this shit worked better than any DARE campaign at my school.

This entire film is the most effective anti-drug PSA I've ever seen,.

I remember walking out of the theater with the rest of the audience and no one was talking. Not a word from anyone. We were all walking out in stunned silence.

marion’s “can you come today” line was by far the most hard hitting scene to watch for me, something about the desperation from marion and what essentially they both know is unachievable while also being a final cry for help was so crushing.

This was an incredibly impactful movie for me. They made us watch it in rehab and afterwards we all got up like “alright I’m cured, thank you all” 😂

There is so much despair in Lux Aeterna. It’s not even the scene that makes the music depressing, the violins are cruel and hopeless, it gives you the feeling that nothing will ever be okay again. It’s chilling and perfect in every sense of the word.

I'm a recovering iv heroin/meth addict who ended up in the hospital with a heart and spine infection from using needles. my ex is on the street now selling her body for dope. this movie is very real. don't do drugs. if you throw a frog into boiling water it will be shocked and try to jump out, but if you put it in lukewarm water and slowly turn the heat up to boiling, it'll just sit. at least, that's what they say will happen. the same happens with addiction, and you don't even realize it's happening.

Seeing Sarah break down in front of the EMT's when she's being questioned broke me. How desperately hopeless she sounded when she said she's going to be on television reminded me of my grandma. She died of dementia, and the one thing I'll always remember was when she kept trying to talk to us about something that wasn't there and she got mad and started crying

That Ellen Burstyn didn't win an Oscar for this movie was an absolute crime.

Requiem for a dream is still amongst the most devastating films I have ever seen, it's unsettling visuals and unnerving score is haunting I actually felt really bad for all the characters who were going through all of that, it's painful ride from what you see to what hear but more importantly what you leave with and remember

Jared Leto and Jennifer Connely were perfect casting choices for this movie. They both had an innocence to them that made this movie so much more brutal.

This movie came out the same year my ex-girlfriend took her own life following years of fighting heroin addiction. I cried so much when I went to watch this movie alone, at the cinema, that when the movie credits ended I was still on my seat, and remained there for another good 15 or 20min until a member of staff realised I was there. This movie was when all the pain and grief finally came out, full force. It's almost like I was still in denial before it. "Requiem" is perhaps the most impactful movie I've ever seen in my life. Take care, everyone. And make sure to let your loved ones know you love them, because you never know when they might be gone... Thank you for listening to my rambling. And sorry about that. Rest in peace, Rita <3

My brother just unalived himself after a 5 year battle with drug induced psychosis. A lot of people compare this movie to a dare commercial but the things that happen to these characters are accurate to the realities of hard drugs and the ways they ruin lives.

Gosh this movie. I’m holding back tears just from this analysis. The end to all their dreams especially marlon’s character hits close. Without giving the story away, this should be watched but please don’t go in with a low feeling, because it will drain whatever you have.

I can't believe Clint Mansell has never been nominated for an Oscar. Putting Requiem for a Dream aside, almost every other film score he's done is amazing. π, The Fountain, Black Swan, Moon, Filth, Smokin' Aces, In the Earth. All of these scores are fantastic, and while I do absolutely love the music for Requiem for a Dream, I wish it didn't really overshadow Mansell's other works.

The scene where he injects 💉 his dope knowing full well it's beyond infected/necrotizing dead tissue. Is what did it for me. Along with him waking up in a hospital bed with his left forearm amputated and sobbing uncontrollably with only the nurse to comfort him. Is forever burned into my conscience and motivates me to never use needles or heroin.

As the famous review goes: "Best movie I never want to watch again."

I watched requiem for a dream literally a few days ago and since then it's been haunting me. Its so raw and depressing, honestly. Definitely leaves you with lost of topics to think about.Such a masterpiece