Requiem for a Dream: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[Gray Rain of Depression]]: After Marion's upsetting sexual encounter with her psychiatrist, she goes outside in the rain and pukes. The rain is also seen as Tyrone looks forlornly at a photo of his mother.

* [[Hope Spot]]: The last shot of Tyrone is in prison where he recalls memories of his mother fondly. [[Word of God]] has it that this shows that Tyrone is the only person capable of reclaiming his life.

* [[Scare'Em Straight]]

* [[Seasonal Baggage]]: Used with the seasons summer, fall, and winter to represent the three act structure of the movie, as well as a parallel for the destruction that drugs are doing to the lives of the characters.

** Marion curled up in a ball in the bathtub and shrieking is taken straight out of ''[[Perfect Blue]]''. Aronofsky even secured the rights to a live-action version of the film just to justify including this scene in ''this'' movie.

** During the scene when Tyrone and Harry are in the crowd, trying to get the drug shipment from Florida, one of the dealers is shown peeling an orange. This is a reference to ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]]'' and the use of oranges as foreshadowing to something bad about to happen. They don't get their drugs, and the next sequence is [[It Got Worse|Winter]].