"It's a reason to get up in the morning. It's a reason to loose weight, to fit in the red dress. It's a reason to smile. It makes tomorrow alright." Sara's world is clearly revolved around taking the diet pills and becoming "happy.".
As time passes we see how Sara's addiction has ended up completely consuming her, and her life is reduced to a vicious cycle of torment and desperation. She starts taking more and more of the pills just to feel the same as she did when she started taking them. While Sara becomes more addicted to the pills, they affect her mind tremendously as well. Her life becomes a fantasy and all she thinks about is the "red dress" and being on television. She has no concept of how sick and close to death she has come to. Sara is eventually hospitalized where we see how greatly her life has been affected. While she's being fed through tubes and given electroshock treatment, she still thinks that she is going to be on television. What once was thought to make her happy has actually ended up taking over her life and causing her to almost die. .
One would think that Sara's son would learn the dangers of drug abuse and addiction from seeing what she is going through, but Harry's life has been taken over by drugs as well. From the beginning of the film we learn that Harry's life is focused around heroin. He spends his days stealing and scheming for drug money, even taking his mother's television and making her buy it back from the pawnshop. While struggling to get money for drugs, Harry and his friend decide to start dealing drugs. They see this plan as something that will make their lives perfect and problem free. Enthusiastically, Harry tells his girlfriend about his plan, "We got this idea, if we get a piece of this stuff we can cut it up and double our money no problem. We"ll be on easy street." Harry starts out doing well dealing drugs and makes a large amount of money, but soon his plan to make him happy ends up ruining his life.
Requiem for a Dream So I watched a Requiem for a Dream and I found it to be very disturbing. The movie is about two kids, probably in their early twenties that smoke pot and shoot up heroin. One of the boys, star Jared Leto has a girlfriend that pressures him into always buying heroin for he...
Aurora of a Dream Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", has an aurora of a dream. ... In the Requiem, Linda remarks, "He was so wonderful with his hands". ... Biff replys to his mother in the Requiem, "He never knew who he was". ... Biff talks about his father in the Requiem, "He had all the wrong dreams. ... Happy remarks in the Requiem, "He had a good dream. ...
3 Requiem for a Dream The motion picture "Requiem for a Dream" is an emotionally charged film linking the lives of a lonely widow, her son Harry, his girlfriend Marion, and his best friend Tyrone. ... Her dream of being on T.V. was destroyed by her drug addiction. ... The diet pills destroyed her life, brain, and most tragic her dream. ... Harry promised to buy her a store so she could fulfill her dream. That dream never happened. ...
After watching the film, Requiem for a Dream by director Darren Aronofsky (2000), my initial reaction was thinking how depressing and lonely life must be for an addict. At that moment I realized the importance of reflecting on my own values and biases prior to working with substance abuse clients. B...
The dominant theme expressed in "Death of a Salesman" is that of the American Dream. In the play it is important that Willy is a salesman as he represents the reality and consequence of living a false American Dream. ... This can be seen in the characteristics of Willy who pursued the America Dream in the hope of wealth and personal status. ... However, during the Requiem Willy's notion of success is contradicted when Biff reminisces "there's more of him in that front stoop than in all the sales he ever made", implying Willy was more successful in manual labour. ... It is importan...
In front of Willy's grave Happy vows to continue Willy's dream. " He had a good dream. It's the only dream you can have- to come out the number-one man. ... "He had the wrong dreams. ... When talking to Willy Biff says, "We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years." and later pleads with him to accept reality. " Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?" ... In the "Requiem", Happy vows to finish what his father started and therefore following in his footsteps, "I"m gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain." ...
It is the end of a life spent uselessly chasing "the American dream". ... Yet, Willy still works his entire life pursuing his dream. ... The final aspect of the American dream is family. ... His motives were good, but "He had all the wrong dreams. All, all, wrong" (1888; Requiem)....
