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{{quote|''If you ever find yourself inexplicably contented with your lot, slip this into your DVD player and normal service will be resumed... this is a film you watch once, then repair to the pub to stare fixedly into your beer for the night, vowing never, ever to watch it again.''|'''Empire'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Top 10 Most Depressing Movies (this is #1)}}
Originally a novel written in 1978 by Hubert Selby, Jr., ''[[Requiem
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: With sign language used by the deaf drug dealer employing Tyrone.
* [[Black Best Friend]]: Tyrone.
* [[Body Horror]]: Harry's infected arm is more than a little grotesque.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Sara.
* [[Camera Tricks]]: practically a camera circus
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* [[Electric Torture]]: What ECT is essentially depicted as.
* [[Empty Promise]]: After Harry is arrested with Tyrone, he calls Marion on the phone. She asks him to come home that day. He tearfully promises her he will, even though they both understand that it won't happen. This is echoed by the nurse who tries to comfort Harry at the end, sincerely assuring him that if he gives her a contact number she'll get in touch with Marion and 'she'll come'. Harry, by this point, has no such comforting illusions anymore.
* [[Watch It Stoned]]: [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]]. The first act of the film, Summer, is deliriously positive due to the euphoria of the characters' drug highs. At first this is what the characters believe, but eventually everything turns out to be much, much worse on drugs. As the story progresses, the euphoria disintegrates, as do the characters.▼
* [[Facecam]] This movie codified it as one of Darren Aronofsky's trademarks.
* [[Fade to White]]: An Aronofsky trademark.
* [[Fan Disservice]]: Jennifer Connelly performing in a live double-dildo show is not only presented as horrifyingly degrading, but inter-cut at lightning speed with torturously horrible fates of all the other
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The entire last quarter of the movie, with a different one for each character. You'd think that shooting up via a gangrene-ridden arm would be the low point. You'd be wrong. Oh so very wrong...
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Tyrone's briefly-glimpsed dream of being comforted and loved by his mother.
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** Sara Goldfarb is a former redhead who tries to dye her hair and fit back into her favorite red dress to recreate her glamorous appearance on the happiest day of her life. Her youthful self, bedecked in the red dress, haunts her as she loses her sanity.
** In Harry's dream/hallucination of meeting Marion on the pier, she is wearing a red dress.
* [[Madness Montage]]:
** At the end, when Marion is forced to perform sexually with another stripper in degrading manners intercut with Sara's electroshock treatments, Tyrone being made to do hard labor in prison, and Harry being prepped for surgery to amputate his arm. As the montage keeps going, there starts to be less and less time between each cut, until it reaches the point where each one only shows for a few seconds and they blend into a single barely sensible cacophony...
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* [[Troubled Fetal Position]]: Unsurprisingly occurs at least once as things go downhill for the main characters. Happens for all of them at the end of the film. One of the ones mid-film was a frame-for-frame recreation of the scene in ''Perfect Blue''.
* Throw it In: Harry's nurse, toward the end of the film, sticks out her tongue as she prepares the hypodermic shot. The director kept it.
* [[Uncle Tomfoolery]]: Subverted. Though Tyrone is a black drug addict played by Marlon Wayans who displays some wacky behavior early on, he develops into a very serious and tragic character.▼
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: Tappy Tibbons never says the third part of his self-help program. Eagle-eyed viewers, however, can spot it on the board behind him: {{spoiler|No Orgasm}}.
* [[The Un-Smile]]: Marion's smile, as she holds her stash at the end.
▲* [[Uncle Tomfoolery]]: Subverted. Though Tyrone is a black drug addict played by Marlon Wayans who displays some wacky behavior early on, he develops into a very serious and tragic character.
* [[Vicious Cycle]]: Marion's [[Fate Worse Than Death]]. Drugs are the only thing that gives her solace, but to acquire them she has to perform deeds of such degradation that she needs drugs to forget about them.
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: Happens to Marion after she has sex with her psychiatrist in exchange for money. Tyrone gets one as he does prison labor during the [[Madness Montage]].
▲* [[Watch It Stoned]]: [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]]. The first act of the film, Summer, is deliriously positive due to the euphoria of the characters' drug highs. At first this is what the characters believe, but eventually everything turns out to be much, much worse on drugs. As the story progresses, the euphoria disintegrates, as do the characters.
* [[Where Da White Women At?]]: Big Tim the pimp admits to being specifically attracted to white women, and takes advantage of Marion's addiction to supply her drugs in exchange for sexual favors.
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