Kamis, 06 Oktober 2011

Requiem For A Dream - Perhaps it's called Hell in Earth: Addiction

Actually i'd love to post about my first project of making a short film - my Dramaturgi group and i - and uploading the video here. Unfortunately, the problem of video size made it couldn't happen soon :( So i made the post that related to film also to satisfy my disappointment. Here we go.... 


Requiem For A Dream is film by Aronofsky that shows four people that have addiction to drugs. Related to the dictionary, addiction is Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance. The drug is the matter of this film. How Harry (Leto) and Tyrone (Wayans) become a thieves and become a drug dealer for satisfy their thirsty of their addiction. How Marion (Connely) willing to being-a-prostitute-alike to fulfil her addiction. And how Sara (Burstyn) suffers a delusional soul in her loneliness it's also because of drugs. This film show us the emotional and tragedy of those have addiction. *you can read the review on IMDb or wiki if you like. Besides that we know another risks of being a junkie such delusional mind, become a bad-treated prisoner, become a sex performer or hooker, or the chance of losing your arm, this film shows us feminism issue, how bad American medication, and the fear of loneliness in elderly. 

Feminism issue comes from the two women characters in this film, Sara Goldfarb and Marion Silver. Sara Goldfarb feels empty while her son Harry becoming a junkie that hurt her and the other hand Harry is her life. When Harry left, she lost the thing that she could take care of. She lost some her chores of being a mother. She also has no husband that makes her lost her chores as a wife. 



Oh, Harry, you’re such a good boy.
Your father would be so happy to see
what you’re doing for your poor,
lonely mother.


You see that, Seymour?  You see how
good your son is?  He knows how lonely
his mother is living all alone, no
one to make her a visit...


C’mon.  I almost fit in my red dress,   
the one I wore at your high school
graduation.  The one your father
liked so much.  I remember how he
looked at me in the red dress.  It’s
not long after that he got sick and
died and you’re without a father, my
poor baby, but thank God he saw you
happy for a little and --


I do them, but why should I?  I’m
alone.  Seymour’s gone, you’re gone,
I have no one to take care of. 
Anybody.  Everybody.  What do I have? 
I’m lonely, Harry.  I’m old.

those lines shows how Sara - a woman life based on man perspective. What she should do for husband and her son. Being a mother and a wife is her life. When these chores elapse, she also lost her life. And the addiction of diet-pills-contain-of-addictive-thing makes her relax and find something to pursue one more time (delusion of winning the television show prize)

For Marion case, she "sells" her body for drugs. She having sex for her ex-boyfriend-alike for loan to buy drugs. It is the idea of Harry, the one that we could say Marion's lover. Marion also having sex with a black-drug-dealer for drugs, the climax is Marion become one of performer on sex show for paying drugs she addict. How a man instruct the woman to sell her body, how a man instruct a woman to do the oral sex without the image of the man do the same to the woman, and how a man instruct ass-to-ass-show-using-dildo to both girls and pay them for fun. Those are happen to Marion, a woman

In Sara Goldfarb case, we can see that medication in America is so horrible for treating their patient. The short cut way to become healthy through addictive medication is happening. I may think that, why the superpower USA do that to the American citizen, it reminds me the film by Michael More called SICKO. The fear of being old maybe would come to everyone, in this film that thing set emotionally by Sara. Loneliness could be attract delusion, somebody to love and somebody to take care of is important for everyone.

blah blah blah i know my English here suck ... ahahhaha XD i keep practising ... You must watch this movie before you do drugs...

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