Requiem for a Dream

During week 3 of film studies class, we watched a film called Requiem for a Dream. I admire that how director express the feeling of similarity in 4 different characters. The editing of this film really inspire me a lot.

 After this I want to learn how the editor used fast cut to depicts 4 different characters of this film. There are 4 main character in this film which is Sara Goldfarb, Harry Goldfarb, Marion Sliver and Tyrone. This 4 characters had different perception and different goals to achieve. To achieve their goals. They find many ways and methods to fulfill their needs. Through this film, I can imaging that a lot of things that related to our social life. In social life, we also will find many ways to fulfill our needs and achieve the goals we want. I like how director depicts the act of drugs. The director used extreme close to every step of taking the drugs. What I see is it like a point of view of taking drugs. I saw money, drugs, fire, and also the eyes change through my eyes. When one of the character taking drugs, the film will shows the extreme close up of this scene. Every scenes of extreme close up would brought out the feeling through yourselves.  

My favorite character was Sara Goldfarb. Everyday she will watch her favorite TV show. One day, a call from TV show said that Sara will go on to TV show. So Sara thought that she can not go to TV show with her fat body. She want to become famous. She want son and her dead husband to become famous and proud of her. Sara love beauty, But she very shame because of her fat body. Sara use many ways to lose her weight. I like that scene that how she lose her weight. She cannot to control her desire to eat the food, even breakfast, lunch and dinner. I can feel how pain Sara go through. Because director use point of view to show the desire of Sara. Especially she watching the TV meanwhile she turn her head to notice the icebox. This action could brought the emotion of desire. Sara can not control her desire when she want to lose her weight. She very suffer when she tried to lose her weight but also she want to eat food. The goal she want to achieve is to become famous on TV.  Director also use many effect to show the imagination of Sara when Sara start getting crazy. The characters on TV jump up from TV laugh at the Sara, The Icebox become monster and want eat Sara. 

What I saw in this film is this 4 characters want to achieve their goals, but the ways they used was wrong. Until they getting suffer and regret what have done by them. In this film, I saw money, drugs, famous, sex, and desire. Those things was what we looking for in real life. I really like how the editor used the skill of editing and transition to shows the similarity of this 4 different character. This film reached another cinematography level.