Well, hello, I just watched the video you mentioned and I know the name of the song. The Chinese name of the background music of this video is "Dream Requiem". The English name of the music is "Requiem for a Dream". This music comes from the movie "Requiem for a Dream". "Requiem for a Dream" is also known as "Addiction", "Elegy of a Dream" and so on.
The only thing you should never forget is light. Darkness, as the opposite of light, will always exist. The shadows in the movie are attractive because they are real. After heartbreak, we pursue the so-called reality outside the screen, and then look at the surroundings. Roman Polanski said: Maybe I like shadows in movies, but shadows in life don't.
I think if there are ten different themes to express life, "Requiem for a Dream" can definitely remind you not to sink from a certain angle. This is also a film that you feel you can't say anything about after watching it, especially when it forces you to say something - you know it is good in many ways, but there is nothing to say about it. Depression, depression, despair, sadness, helplessness... many terms are the annotations of the film "Requiem for a Dream".
Maybe you have never noticed it, but you have seen it on an ignorant yet repeatedly reprinted post on the top ten banned films. You may even think that there is something in it that is intolerable to the world or the public. , with a kind of curiosity to pursue.
Of course, I will say: you are wrong.
Such curiosity-seeking behavior insults a great and outstanding film. I have to point out that "Requiem for a Dream" is actually a forgotten film. It was too good and had dark themes, which led to it being forgotten. After paying careful attention, you may one day find that it is also listed in IMDB, and the ranking can be taken seriously. It has the outstanding performance of the actors, the director's sharp editing, high-speed switching of scenes, magical montage, heart-wrenching music, and a heavy theme worthy of modern people's reflection for a long time.
If you want to correct the shortcomings of the video. I think: its excellence comes from its theme, but it is also destroyed by its theme. The film does not give us any hope.
Representing themes such as drugs, violence, and prostitution does not mean that you cannot live in the world, but from which perspective. Maybe you will say that gangster movies are not very popular? Yes, gangsters are popular, but they also take many forms. To show the gangsters head-on without beautification, I am afraid not many people would be willing to watch the bloody battles in reality, or the chases filled with bullets and bullets. "Requiem for a Dream" positively describes people's powerless struggle in the face of drugs, but it is a unique work. A large number of psychological activities are depicted, sometimes intense and rapid, sometimes flowing gently, because the theme of this beautiful pursuit itself is an illusion, and the dream pursued by the protagonist is nothing more than an illusion. Although dreams are meant to be realized, there are some that need to be shattered. When the soul and body are separated by drugs, the soul is no longer under your control.
Another shortcoming is the overly sharp editing and fast switching, which is unbearable, especially when faced with Jared Leto’s old and painful face. I wanted to cut it several times. Lost, because it feels like suffering. The protagonist is suffering, and we are suffering too. Moreover, the sound of cheers from the TV program is really unnerving. This kind of pain is not only watching an old mother suffer, but also the unbearable consequences of it. The theme is based on a black tone, watching the four protagonists taking drugs and swallowing drugs again and again, no more, and step by step toward despair. If the endings of films such as "The Killing" and "Dancer in the Dark" give us an abrupt end to pain, hanging deprives us of the right to live. So the continuous intensification of pain and despair in the last ten or twenty minutes of "Requiem for a Dream" is unmatched by other films.
If the dazzling editing does not shock you, the contraction and dilation of the pupils are not enough to make you novel, and the feeling of being dependent on drugs seems too far away from you, and the pain in the torture feels unreal to you. Then let you see his life disappear suddenly. Even though it is cruel, it may knock you down, but it is more of a momentary shock. The slow withering of life is a torture that tests one's heart and patience. We reluctantly saw the latter in "Requiem for a Dream", and we were so depressed that we couldn't stop.
This may be why the Japanese guinea pig experimental short film series chooses to slowly torture a person to death, rather than taking pleasure in cutting off people's heads like terrorists. This is to test people's endurance. It is undeniable that what is mentioned above is a perverted behavior.
Of course, in "Requiem for a Dream", I don't think it is torture for the sake of torture. At least, it leaves some confusing messages.
I remember the first time I watched the movie, I was immediately fascinated by the music of "Summer Overture" at the beginning. It felt like the god of death had opened the door at the beginning. In the scene after scene, Harry and Tyron pushed the TV, waved their hands and said: Hi to the old women who were resting. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, two young people were walking on the wide street. The sound of music was like footsteps, from light to heavy, gradually accelerating... Of course, the entire soundtrack is very well done, and other tracks also incorporate many musical elements (see the director's previous works), but I have a soft spot for this opening song.
This story includes Summer, Fall, and Winter in the original soundtrack. It starts with the hot summer, but there is no Spring. One season is missing from the four seasons. This is not only a trap, but also the final fate of death.
Life is just countless gestures. Love and hate, gathering and separation, joys and sorrows, separation and separation, etc. are all listed among them. Some go up, some go down, some struggle desperately, and some are content with the situation. But when all of these fall apart, and in the process from establishment to demise, if the pressure given is too much for life to bear, the people in it may return to the state where everything was just like the first time they met. Just like in the mother's womb, curling up helplessly and fragilely into the shape of a bow is an effective posture to comfort yourself. You can also feel some fictional but subjective temperatures.
But at the same time, the secrets revealed are not just a lack of security.
Perhaps the various montage methods used in the movie are just to express a confused theme: high-speed cutting, partial magnification, special angle processing of the lens, and so on. And where will the front lead the people living in it?
Clue 1: TV.
Harry’s mother, Sara, is a TV fan. This identity reflects her background: an uneducated, helpless elderly woman with a deep desire for family love and companionship, as well as the difficulty of dieting and losing weight—— People who watch TV, especially women, always like to put some snacks around. When Harry and his friends drag an old TV through the streets at the beginning of the film, it foreshadows the importance of television in the movie.
At the same time, all plot developments are related to television. After receiving an invitation to appear on a TV show she often watched, Sara decided to lose weight so that she could wear the red dress that her late husband praised highly when she attended her son's high school graduation ceremony. The whole story unfolds from this.
Clue 2: Original sound.
When Harry and his friends walked through the streets holding the old TV, the theme music repeated many times in the film also played. From light to severe, from slow to urgent. The same spooky music is used when there are many plot twists in the film, such as Harry's drug business being frustrated, going into exile, Sara having hallucinations, and entering psychiatric treatment. It seems to indicate the upcoming trajectory of the four protagonists.
Clue 3: Color.
Sara’s favorite color is also the most beautiful red, and her hair is also the dazzling red it used to be. However, contrary to expectations, her neighbor DIYed her hair at home and it turned orange. The deviation was only a little bit different. Look. It seems a bit funny and weird. The perfect image of Marylin in Harry's dream is also wearing a short red dress. Perhaps it is a nostalgia for his mother's image in high school, or perhaps just to express his unspoken love for Sara. But I have to say that Jennifer Connelly is really suitable for smoky makeup and mainly black clothes. It is very consistent with her own temperament. My impression of J.C. is that she plays such characters who are suffering from life. See Her black hair and thick black eyebrows can't help but turn her thoughts into goth. At the same time, the lover Harry also has thick black hair. I believe Aronofsky also put a lot of effort into casting.
Clue 3: Seasonal change.
I wonder if there is the same proverb in English: Winter has passed, can spring be far behind? But this time Aronofsky played a big subversion. The film begins to see hope in the summer, the pain intensifies in the autumn, and the winter becomes even more unbearable until the last twenty minutes, but the long-awaited spring is never seen.
Clue 4: Bed and curling up, sleeping (maybe...)
At the end, after suffering physical and mental torture, the four protagonists lie in the same posture on the bed. Lie on your left side and curl up into a bow shape. Only by hugging yourself tightly can you feel some false warmth.
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Personally, I prefer the translated title of "Requiem for a Dream", which reveals a sense of hope amid confusion, even though the entire film shows a complete sense of hope. The darkness, even though Sara will definitely not be able to be on camera anymore after entering a psychiatrist and will have lifelong regrets, even if Harry goes to the hospital for treatment of a suppurating arm that was drugged and was imprisoned and had his limb amputated, even if Tylon is also imprisoned and has to work hard, even if Marilyn is forced to The situation was such that they were tortured at a drug dealer's party in exchange for some necessary money... But I saw that they still missed each other, and even after everything they encountered, they still loved each other.
It’s just that there is a lack of a clear outlet for expression. But life is not over yet. After winter, spring will still come. This is a natural law that cannot be violated, just like family affection that cannot be diluted by water, friendship that supports each other, and love that understands each other. So even though I saw underground comments in the United States saying that the film was anti-social and too sharp in reflecting social issues such as the current gap between rich and poor (regardless of its political factors, there may be a reason why it did not win the award). , I still want to believe that Aronofsky still holds the warmth of human nature and various emotions, which are irreplaceable by anything.
Maybe Harry's hope of making a lot of money so that his mother can live a safe life backfires, maybe Tylon can no longer make up for some shortcomings because of his mother's death, maybe Marylin's drug addiction will eventually break out, maybe Sara has never recovered. However, it would be good if we could support each other and walk the life trajectories of small people. In my opinion, a truly cold-blooded movie is the kind of thing where the outside environment causes mutual suspicion and torture of each other until the feelings are gone.
Well, that’s about all the content, I hope LZ will adopt it, thank you~ (⌒_⌒ )