Do you remember this music? I bet you do. It was all over the place in the early 2000s, from KZhead videos, trailers, video games, tv shows, tv series...you name it. But why did this music become such an iconic piece of work? What makes it so...'memorable'?
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Extra Credits:
Interview with Clint Mansell on the scoring process:
www.npr.org/2020/10/16/923944...
Vice article on where Lux Aeterna has been used:
www.vice.com/en/article/4ayj5...
Timestamp
0:00 Introduction
0:42 Lux Aeterna - Opening
1:56 Music VS Film
2:20 Foreground Edit
2:57 Tuning
4:03 Scores
5:01 Different Motifs
5:50 Lux VS Meltdown
6:51 Trigger - Harry and Marion
8:24 Separation - Tense Motif
9:40 Meltdown
10:10 Graphic Matches
10:49 Sounds
11:59 Build-up
12:28 Specifics
12:53 Shifting Music
13:34 Lux Aeterna - Ending
14:51 Thank you
I'm done. This is too much. Are there films you just couldn't watch twice? What was it?!
whats good my man, SMAOK WEED AND GET POSSY 🗿
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dude i havent been able to watch paths of glory twice and that movie is nowhere near as violent as requiem. its just so so so so dark
I would watch it twice, but I got that awful feeling as the movie progressed. I've had the same feeling when I watch Takashi Miike or Gaspar Noe's movies. It makes me feel so sick. I listen to Lux Aeterna constantly, though. :)
May is an incredible movie (as is Requiem For A Dream), but I don't know if I could ever watch it again.
This was an incredibly impactful movie for me. They made us watch it in rehab and afterwards we all got up like “alright I’m cured, thank you all” 😂
It's in my top 3 fav of all time (along with Magnolia and Natural Born Killers) aaaand my sister-in-law says they put it on in late high school in Mexico City and it scared the piss out of the whole class (it should be played in grade 11/12 in north American too)
@@interdimensionalsteve8172 My school made me watch it when i was in ninth grade.
@@angelizar123 Fantastic. Where were you? That an American school?
@@interdimensionalsteve8172 No, It´s a Colombian one. Although I think it is very odd they showed it to us, I´ve never heard any other schools doing something like that. It traumatized a good amount of us, I´ll never forget the refrigerator scene, the ass to ass scene and the final sequence where every character goes beyond the point of no return. The hopeless and asphyxiating atmosphere was pretty intense too.
@@angelizar123 Try watching it on acid or a heaping of mushrooms ;) I watched it and Natural Born Killers back to back when tripping hard on shrooms once, and I basically cried and drooled everywhere for 4 hours, but it was still an incredible experience. Good times!
I'm a recovering iv heroin/meth addict who ended up in the hospital with a heart and spine infection from using needles. my ex is on the street now selling her body for dope. this movie is very real. don't do drugs. if you throw a frog into boiling water it will be shocked and try to jump out, but if you put it in lukewarm water and slowly turn the heat up to boiling, it'll just sit. at least, that's what they say will happen. the same happens with addiction, and you don't even realize it's happening.
im sorry. please get better
Between the toes nobody knows
@@Deurization I'm clean n' sober now, thankfully. Thank you so much
@@MBIRTIRoma but hit in your arm to reduce any harm
Hello my friend, I am on methadone for 4 years, I know it's not best way, but it's save my life. I lost nearly everything and everyone because heroin and other opioids, cocaine, weed, benzodiazepines and alcohol, I think there is no need to tell you what is like, because you know. There is people out there, who are my former friends, they lost arms, legs, they are totally wrecks, or they are dead, and I am so sorry for them, I don't feel better than anyone, because I am OD many, many times, I am emotionaly damaged, I can't build any relationship. Sometimes thinking about death comfort me, but only thing that's really matter it's fact that I am alive, I am been in Hell and I am back, and I don't want to do this again. Bless you and please be strong.
This movie horrified me as a teenager. My mom showed it to my siblings and I to scare us away from doing hard drugs, since our family has a history of addiction and drug abuse, and she was worried me and my sisters would fall down the same path. I can say for sure that this shit worked better than any DARE campaign at my school.
That's what _Trainspotting_ did for me!
I'm using this parenting tip 😂
I'm off a tab of that synthetic, Sun roof and I'm teaching big lessons over, In the south and I'm feeling like a pimp You a simp
@@paperseatbelt if you are, I’d recommend it for a teenager. There are far too many adult themes for it to be safe for younger children.
@@gregjayonnaise8314 oh totally. I seen it when I was 15 and it shook me for a long time. I'd definitely wait until I think my kids could handle it
This entire film is the most effective anti-drug PSA I've ever seen,.
Literally
This is a movie that makes me feel like I’m having a panic attack. The effect of the final sequence’s score is absolutely overwhelming and scarring.
Just watching this analysis had me on edge the entire time.
That’s why it’s a masterpiece.
exactly it makes me so anxious
I completely agree, it just gives a deep feeling. Slightly numbing knowing that the characters will never be the same.
I stopped watching it on Saras scene where she starts seeing the fridge move, it was so overwhelming, I have this fear of going crazy and well I struggle with addiction not hard drugs like that but they still have me on a chokehold + the whole wanting to be thin or wanting to be in tv I want that and it just made me scared to how far some people are willing to go to not even get close to what they want to achieve, this movie is all my fears in one. Drugs, heroin,losing your mind, developing psychosis, unfulfilling your dreams, it left me anxious and depressed for the whole night. I had to go walk my niece and I got a small anxiety attack, it’s such an amazing movie though I want to finish it
I remember walking out of the theater with the rest of the audience and no one was talking. Not a word from anyone. We were all walking out in stunned silence.
Same here it took a couple of minutes after the credits finished and the lights came on before people left the cinema, a very odd experience.
It’s one of the most devastatingly impactful movies I’ve ever seen… I feel like everyone should watch it at least once. It really helped put my struggles into perspective.
Yessssss!!!! 😱
I can only imagine watching this in a theater, with the music, and the big screen. That would be so eerie and leave me shook for a while
That Ellen Burstyn didn't win an Oscar for this movie was an absolute crime.
I saw this to myself all the time. I get julia roberts had her moment but this .... this really was ellens. Her performances moved me so much.
No...murder is a crime.....theft is a crime.
@@brendanbloomberg3283 There's an excellent article about metaphors on Wikipedia. Give it a read, it'll help you process that comment.
@@wetterschneider puhahaha you're a dunce.
I second that emotion. But this is what happened: "Burstyn won the New York Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actress for the film and probably would have won the Oscar had she remained in the supporting category. Instead she was campaigned as lead and ended up losing the Best Actress award to Julia Roberts for “Erin Brockovitch". It didn't matter. I think the movie upset the jury too much. The by nature suckers for sentiment jury couldn't emphasize with Sarah, and hark! there was fairy Julia with her dazzling smiles! And who was responsible for that category choice... Rosemary's Baby was a similar big goof. Mia Farrow's acting - a 100% leading role - was stunning, and some idiot "forgot" to enter her for the nominations. I have the soundtrack CD, and it's not an easy ride, but together with RoaD, Mansell's score is brilliant.
There is so much despair in Lux Aeterna. It’s not even the scene that makes the music depressing, the violins are cruel and hopeless, it gives you the feeling that nothing will ever be okay again. It’s chilling and perfect in every sense of the word.
well said
To call violins cruel and hopeless truly shows the magic that musicians are capable of through these instruments- really it the emotions they create
marion’s “can you come today” line was by far the most hard hitting scene to watch for me, something about the desperation from marion and what essentially they both know is unachievable while also being a final cry for help was so crushing.
Jennifer deliver that line superb I also love Ellen’s monologue about depression .
That line broke me…
@@GigiMurakami It made me shit my pants
Oh god, I'm tearing up just remembering that line being delivered.
Even more utterly heart-wrenching is his response: "Soon"
This movie came out the same year my ex-girlfriend took her own life following years of fighting heroin addiction. I cried so much when I went to watch this movie alone, at the cinema, that when the movie credits ended I was still on my seat, and remained there for another good 15 or 20min until a member of staff realised I was there. This movie was when all the pain and grief finally came out, full force. It's almost like I was still in denial before it. "Requiem" is perhaps the most impactful movie I've ever seen in my life. Take care, everyone. And make sure to let your loved ones know you love them, because you never know when they might be gone... Thank you for listening to my rambling. And sorry about that. Rest in peace, Rita
thats horrible, im so sorry, I can only hope shes in peace and that you’re doing okay
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Jared Leto and Jennifer Connely were perfect casting choices for this movie. They both had an innocence to them that made this movie so much more brutal.
Both of them are also very attractive but strange looking and almost ugly at times and from certain angles which made the junkie aesthetic work
@@dxfifa Yeah I think the fact that their skin is so pale and they have dark features really worked for the junkie look.
Seeing Sarah break down in front of the EMT's when she's being questioned broke me. How desperately hopeless she sounded when she said she's going to be on television reminded me of my grandma. She died of dementia, and the one thing I'll always remember was when she kept trying to talk to us about something that wasn't there and she got mad and started crying
Thats terrible, im so sorry
Requiem for a dream is still amongst the most devastating films I have ever seen, it's unsettling visuals and unnerving score is haunting I actually felt really bad for all the characters who were going through all of that, it's painful ride from what you see to what hear but more importantly what you leave with and remember
Yeah the movie really manages to install emotion in you even though the ending didin't seem to be that bad.
As the famous review goes: "Best movie I never want to watch again."
The scene where he injects 💉 his dope knowing full well it's beyond infected/necrotizing dead tissue. Is what did it for me. Along with him waking up in a hospital bed with his left forearm amputated and sobbing uncontrollably with only the nurse to comfort him. Is forever burned into my conscience and motivates me to never use needles or heroin.
My brother just unalived himself after a 5 year battle with drug induced psychosis. A lot of people compare this movie to a dare commercial but the things that happen to these characters are accurate to the realities of hard drugs and the ways they ruin lives.
I’m so sorry for the loss of your brother. Hopefully he is at peace 🙏🏿💐
Sending love to you and your family, I’m very sorry for your loss. 🙏🏽💖
How could anybody rule this film as unrealistic?? They must know nothing about drug addiction.
@@assidreflex9718 I've been a hard drug user for 20 years. I believe very strongly that the drug laws are what make the drug addiction so dangerous. I've done damage that wouldn't have happened if drugs were legal. if the heroin were pharmaceutical I wouldn't be having the problems in having because of drug use. if drugs were legal and regulated, and you knew exactly what was in a dose, overdoses would be a rare thing. these drug laws are killing people and ruining laws. I consider myself to be an expert but way of first hand experience. twenty years Worth. I realize many people disagree, which is ok. I think we need to be open to discussion on this topic. addicts need love, compassion, things like that. the whole tough love, enabling thing is BS. if you want to help an addict, ask them what they need. don't impose laws on them. this is supposed to be a free country. it won't be until we fix the drug laws. the drug problem won't go away until we fix the drug laws. compassionate curiosity over judgment is the way
I hate that this movie is anywhere near consider like a "Dare commercial" when this movie is more then just Look at what drugs do to you and more about how different addictions are created and how they unfold in our lives with other amazing subjects that addicts do while on drugs that not many people get unless you analyze the film
I saw this movie for the first time my sophomore year in high school back in 2003. I remember feeling “off” for many days afterward. 7 years later I would become an IV heroin user and spend the better part of the following 13 years strung out and homeless. Then in December of 2022 I experienced full renal failure due to all of the sludge I had been shooting in my veins and spent most of the following 6 months in and out of the hospital, where I am still recovering at. I was brought in here back in April unable to walk and wrapped in a bed sheet. I’ve lost everything. My RV, my car, my dog, every single possession including all of my clothes. I’m on methadone now and my health is better every day. I feel better than I’ve felt in years. I have hope and I know my future holds great things. There is always hope if you believe in yourself.
I can't believe Clint Mansell has never been nominated for an Oscar. Putting Requiem for a Dream aside, almost every other film score he's done is amazing. π, The Fountain, Black Swan, Moon, Filth, Smokin' Aces, In the Earth. All of these scores are fantastic, and while I do absolutely love the music for Requiem for a Dream, I wish it didn't really overshadow Mansell's other works.
oscars are shit.
Absolutely love Clint Mansell as a movie score buff! Moon is one of my favorite movies too
@@matthewcrome5835 Moon is incredible
What I can't believe is how people keep talking about winning an Oscar as a milestone of achievement.
@@stringjazz2937 I never said it was, but it still would be cool for his stuff to be recognized by them. My main point here is that Clint Mansell in general is a phenomenal composer and that all of his work should be cherished aside from just Requiem for a Dream.
I watched this as 16 year old and recommended it to my parents because I thought it was really well done. Forgot to mention that it is also very disturbing. They came back to me after and asked me why I'd recommend something like that. Accidentally mildly traumatized my parents. My bad.
LOL I did that to my mum after recommending perfect blue oops
@@ebea211 good movie
I did that to my mom making her watch dead space downfall with me.
Gosh this movie. I’m holding back tears just from this analysis. The end to all their dreams especially marlon’s character hits close. Without giving the story away, this should be watched but please don’t go in with a low feeling, because it will drain whatever you have.
The dude who lost his arm what just heartbreaking.. i wanna feel bad for him but not. His friend can still get parole with complete body and her mother recover but he lost an arm. Damn
@Pink Girl yes watch it. it will make you realize some things
@Pink Girl I don't know if I'd recommend that
Hahaha as a person stuck in never ending abuse with severe depression and ptsd (bc what fucking human brain can take years and years of abuse) idk if I’d care or if it’ll make me remember life and feel shitty. My life is miserable so this for me is just life. Thankfully no addictions thanks to my I have enough shit as it is and don’t need to be more insane mentality. But everyday I feel closer and closer to the edge. I wonder when I will finally jump off. Doesn’t feel like if it’s more like when.
@Pink Girl beginning, small spoiler: its starts with a junky robbing his elderly mother who spends most of her time watching the tv. the mother locks herself in the bathroom scared while he takes the tv..... i hate this movie with every bone in my Body. i like to be entertained and not to be preached by shock manners. but i can see why many people like it. its a smart and well done movie, but i just don't find it entertaining.... quite the opposite.
As much as this movie impacted me emotionally, I don't see how the actors managed to come out of the experience without PTSD.
I mean, that’s their job…
That's the beauty of acting making it look like it's real.
They didn`t.
That’s usually On having a good movie team, and trying to remember that at the end of the day it’s just a movie role
@@starladear9513 It left Ellen with a burn down. As an actress, she surpasses Meryl Streep. Without her, the Exorcist would have been a cheap, flat exploitation horror.
That scene of the all male party with the girlfriend...that part I found so haunting, that I only watched it the movie once. It's heartbreaking as hell.
That’s the only part I still have to fast forward through to handle the movie.
That shit is mild as fuck compared to most of the other ending. Marion got off so fucking easy despite being the worst person of the four and yet she gets more sympathy than the men. It sums up pretty privilege and the women are wonderful effect
@@dxfifaright? I do ass 2 ass for fun, and here it’s presented as some sort of awful rock bottom.
@@dxfifaeveryone is affected by things differently…just because you react to something differently than others doesn’t make your opinion “correct”. The beauty of opinion is that there is no right or wrong. Take out your frustrations somewhere else
I tend to get hyper fixated and obsessed with things, so when I watch a movie that is really impactful to me I tend to watch it over and over and over again. There are two amazing movies I have watched exactly once and will never watch ever again: 'Requiem for a Dream' and 'Possum'
Saaaamee. I still have an obsession for it and stuff that’s why I keep coming back to these videos and I have an urge to watch it again 😂
sara was the saddest plotline for me... it was so rough to watch
Yes me as well. I don't think she will ever come out of her psychosis. The reaction her apartment friends had when they saw her made it even sadder.
Having been through heroin withdraws, the scenes when they're driving through hot Florida, sweating and aching, withdrawing, really fucked me up. Don't think I can ever watch this again. Closest to the actual feeling a movie has ever come in my opinion.
What’s your opinion on trainspotting’s depiction of heroin/withdrawal?
Yeah this movie captures the sweat drenched anxiety and panic of being sick a little too accurately. There's no way I would willingly watch the movie again now - even this video made me uncomfortable. I'm convinced that horrible periods of withdrawal create PTSD symptoms given how absolutely traumatic they are. Years later I can still remember how bad it got. Hope you're doing better now.
I’m the same way. I can’t watch movies like this anymore.
Requiem for a Dream, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Irreversible are three movies I genuinely like, but will never watch again. Requiem for a Dream score is a 10/10
Irreversible’s score leaves you with a guttural disgust with the actions on screen
Irreversible is the most disturbing film I've ever seen, and the score is equally so
Same here , also Eden lake and the original martyrs not the remake , oh shit also the BBC series “threads”
oh my word you sometimes have to, because you changeeeeee :(( I recently watched all the vengeance trilogy and oldboy and memories of murder... fuck me I missed so many details!!! and they also affected me differently even though I have watched them before.
Funny you say that. I was so taken by RFaD that I bought the DVD when it was released. I never watched it. You only need to see it once.
I watched requiem for a dream literally a few days ago and since then it's been haunting me. Its so raw and depressing, honestly. Definitely leaves you with lost of topics to think about.Such a masterpiece
I've watched it once . And that was enough. But it is a masterpiece.
This movie came out when I was 20. It really blew my mind. I told myself I would NEVER do heroin. As I got older I fell into my own Dr prescribed pharmaceutical addiction (Xanax and hydrocodone). I had anxiety wondering if I'd end up like the mother, or even worse, on heroin. Well I've kicked the pharma addiction and never stooped to heroin. 3 yrs sober and life is beautiful. Still love this disturbing and raw movie. This score and The Shining are the creepiest.
Sorry to hear you got hooked on that poison and am glad to hear you made it out.
This movie was traumatic to watch. I watched in right after it came out and I've never forgotten it. Very good movie, but I'll probably never watch it again.
as soon as i read "requiem for a dream" i got chills. i think i'm still traumatized lol
It is the type of film that you never want to re-watch
My heart was racing just from how intense this was, even though I've never even watched the movie, it was still too distressing for me, I will say thank you for this entire video about the score, it's so powerful. (I still honestly won't watch the film, It's so much register)
The book is just as depressing too.
I've only barely heard of this film, and after looking up the wiki synopsis, and listening to this analysis video, I can say I feel quite disturbed as well
I've watched Requiem for a Dream 11 or 12 times since seeing it at the Cinema on release and I can honestly say that it's gotten even harder to watch each time as I've gotten older. Great video.
THIS! I've shown it to a lot of friends, when it came out I was in high school. Back then maybe watched it about 8 times. Just watching this analysis was difficult cause I could comprehend the amount of loss more. The pain and trauma were more real because I've been through more. Still one of my favorite "I never watch" movies.
I've only watched it once. Never again. It was a brilliant movie though.
I watched this movie for the first time a couple months back and immediately thought “I will never do this again.” Seeing all of these clips, even being discussed in an analytical context, still almost reduced me to a sniveling mess, only reiterating that I should not watch this movie again for as long as possible, no matter how brilliantly made it is.
I’ve watched it three times when I was a youth a young adult and then a couple years ago I’m 42 . It gets harder the more you grow as a person and see life experiences. I’ve never regretted watching but it does not get easier !
"Ghosts of Things to Come" is one of the best songs to come out of this film. It encapsulates the love between Harry and Marion so beautifully. It's both tragic and pure.
i used to listen to this score while doing my homework in grade 8. looking back, was i ok
dude same lol
You made me laugh
High school for me, but SAME
This is in my top 5 favorite films of all time. I’ve only seen it once and have really been wanting to see it again, but it’s so hard to bring myself to experience it again. Anyways, so glad that you covered this. Clint Mansell’s soundtrack is perfect. Lux Aeterna literally gives me chills every time I listen to it.
If that’s really what you’re into…be brave, come out from in front of the screen and visit downtown LA or the Tenderloin, maybe South of Market or any other urban slightly-off -downtown and you’ll witness the real degradation of the human spirit…un-scripted, un-acted, un-scored…real death and despair.
Always thought that Requiem had the best horror score, just happened to be for a melodrama
Melodrama is a bit light for the darkness in this film imo
This is a horror film. One of the scariest ever made.
I have no words. The analysis you’ve made is so accurate and you pointed out a lot of details I’ve never noticed? even though I’m a big fan of the movie and its score. Requiem for a dream totally deserved a full analysis of its soundtrack and what you did was so interesting and beautifully edited, so it was super satisfying to watch!!
I immediately feel the despair of wayans detoxing in a cell when I hear the song. Give me shock therapy or take my arm honestly anything but that
And yet his character is the only one who has some hope of recovery at the end.
Yes, the entire soundtrack of this film perfectly matched with Darren Aronofsky's vision made this one big living nightmare on screen that has never been done in such a way. Lux Arterna captured the very raw and dark fate of the characters as to say they HAD to "face the music" and there was no way out.
I feel like it’s better if you watch this movie twice after you watch it the first time and get over the initial shock factor, you really begin to see the beautiful cinematography, camera angles, lighting, set pieces etc.
I watched this movie once. That was more than enough for me.
This film is hardcore. Having gone through years of addiction myself I can say with authority that it is very well put together and extremely harrowing. The first time I watched, I wasn’t able to finish as some of the scenes during the downfall were a little too close to the bone. I am glad to say that I rewatched a few years later and was able to complete an was happy I did…. The music was very affective and a great fit with what was happening on screen. A tough film about serious subject matter made all the more effective by the fantastic score and sounds.
This movie is an absolute masterclass in video/sound/score editing.
The song gives the feeling of hopelessness and emptiness…
Meltdown is just terrifying, genuinely creeps the hell out of me and was the first time I awaringly felt my hairs stand up all over my body
The most amazing film that I'll never watch again.
Yep once was enough for me as well!😳😳😳
I watched Requiem for a Dream once. Each time I felt the urge to see it again everything within me screamed stop.
The movie 'The Fountain' is my favourite movie specifically because of the score. I've seen Clint and the Kronos Quartet perform it live and it changed my life.
I need to say your editing for this video is as impeccable as the movie itself. Brilliant.
honestly one of the only movies that made me re-watch it several times the following week
re-watch ??!!
If that’s really what you’re into…be brave, come out from in front of the screen and visit downtown LA or the Tenderloin, maybe South of Market or any other urban slightly-off -downtown and you’ll witness the real degradation of the human spirit…un-scripted, un-acted, un-scored…real death and despair.
i dont think i ever wanna rewatch this again. this movie is just pure pain
This movie was ahead of it’s time. So was the choice of music and screenplay. This is where we are now, a living requiem for a dream.
I lived and worked where they filmed this movie. It’s a constant reminder in Coney Island that drugs are a problem especially with the Soviet immigration population there. Knew some good people who died, had family affected. This movie was just a reflection of some of my childhood. It cuts deep.
I've always been both terrified and amazed at this film and the score. When I first got it on dvd I must have watched it like 10 times trying to understand why it was so intriguing and unwatchable all at once. You have beautifully put this together now and it makes so much more sense, but I'm going to steer clear from watching it ever again, because of how it deeply affected me back then. Thank you for being such a pro at dissecting films, your material is so unique and worthy of its own masterclass!
One time to watch this is plenty. I had just started living with a friend, who did not disclose that her partner was a heroin addict, in Jan 2009. I watched this early one morning the month I moved in. There was a lot of drama, so I moved after 4 months. When I returned to visit her few years later, she said he had died, and had bled out of every orifice after 35 plus years of addiction since 17 years old. He had been a state wrestling champ. At one point she had taken up his habit, on top of 3-4 forties a day, and gotten on disability after an overdose and heart attack. I avoided her, though we still lived in the same small town. A long time family friend just told me she died last year. RIP Robin and Chuck.
To this day Requiem for a Dream is perhaps my favourite "non-genre" film. Perhaps it is partially because generally it is seldom that the scores of dramas reach the levels of impact on top of congruence with the events on film as the likes of Howard Shore does for Lord of the Rings or John Williams for his portfolio seat-gripping blockbusters. However, it takes the exact opposite approach to that awe-inspiring orchestral bombast which reverberates through every fibre of your being. Requiem for a Dream' score, in contrast, is something that penetrates your heart as inocuously as a poison-tipped needle but with all the force of punch to the gut. Just about every other time I have watched this film, I was reduced to tears at the end. No other film has ever regularly affected me in such a way, and the creeping, haunting score is no small part in that.
this movie is the sole reason i dont due heroin anymore. i was lucky enough to have had the will power to say no. a couple of my friends werent, to the rest they were just drug addled nothings, but to me we had a past. i hope they rest in piece, and dont worry, i never need to watch this movie again. i saw it once and it has been burned into my memory since.
*_BE EXCITED! BE BE EXCITED!_* superb work my brother! Likely the most impactful film I've ever seen. Haunting me the last 20 years.
One of the things I really love about this movie was JUST how real it was, from the way it portrays the feelings of drugs, to the way it portrays the decline of drug use, to actual events that happen in real life, like Christmas shipments of drugs. But the music, the music felt so real. It's weird because life doesn't necessarily have a film score, but the music in this film REALLY made it feel so real. It's hard for me to even see clips from the movie sometimes, because its so accurate it FORCES me confront the traumas of what I have been through, and the score adds another whole layer of emersion, but that's one of the reasons why I love it.
whenever i hear Meltdown it never fails to get my heart racing. Great film and soundtrack.
“I’m going to be on television” Sara Goldfarb Ellen Burstyn did an amazing job.
Probably one of my favourite movies of all time. I've watched it twice, the last time was like 8 years ago. I don't think I can stomach watching it again though, which is a testament to its strengths. It was super weird when Lux Aeterna was in every second trailer or commercial for anything, especially when you know the origin. It is a masterful piece of music though! Wonderful video as always :)
It's movies like this that truly shows the uncomparable power movies can have. I saw this a year ago and it made me feel emotions I rarely feel in my life.
I have to watch this movie then come back to this.
Quite possibly the most beautiful piece of music ever composed. My favorite of all time. Clint is an absolutely genius
Requiem for a dream is SOO effective at communicating the feeling of dread. It's a good movie, so good I cannot watch it multiple times. You know, it's not background noise. I think I only saw it three times over 30 years. And I was too damn young the first time LOL.
Still haven’t brought myself to watch it. This analysis was great, as are all of your pieces. Just listening to the score and seeing bits and pieces here put me into such a low space.
So glad I just came upon this channel. Love your observations and your interpretations!
What a fantastically well created video! Bravo!
Amazing. Absolutely love your analysis of the motifs and applications of the score. I only rewatched RfaD a couple of days ago but your breakdown makes me want to go back and watch it again. Brilliant stuff, thank you.
I really love your videos... I love the way you explain every single detail and the way you make us understand even if we don't know much about films and all the film world. ✨
I haven't watched this movie yet, but this video analysis alone was distressing to watch, especially when you show the scenes with Sara in them. I feel like she's the character I'll sympathize most with when I finally watch the movie.
I nearly cried watching this. Great work, one of your best 👌
Nearly !? I was completely ugly crying after this movie it was absolutely amazing
Thank you for not only talking about the music but the sounds, too!
So I watched this heavily on Coke and mushrooms with my buddy and by the end of it we just sat there with our face in our palms. Shit did something to us both that day
Jesus this movie scares the shit out of me I literally can't watch this the second time.
Holy shit. This is a fantastic way of intriguing an audience into watching such an incredible film. I absolutely love the idea of this film and I will DEFINITELY be watching it on the near future. :)
good luck
I've loved this movie ever since I saw it, your analysis made me love it even more.
Great video and amazing analysis! Gave me many of the feelings I had back when I watched this film in the theater for the first time.
Best youtube channel 🤘🏻 keep it up man
I had a phase where I would listen to the whole Requiem for a Dream score almost every day (you can find the whole thing on Apple Music), for over a month straight. I'm a film score buff (currently my go-to listens are my all-time favorite, Reznor and Ross' The Social Network, as well as Jonny Greenwood's new scores for Spencer and The Power of the Dog), and Clint Mansell is one of my favorite film scorers. Of course, the film is incredible as well, it's the first film I watched where I really noticed the score and thought it was fantastic (and the editing, visuals, acting, etc.) Also the only film where I actually cared for a Jared Leto character.
Thanks for the great video!
Fantastic breakdown. This movie and soundtrack hits the soul. Clint mansell is a genius.
Oh wow, see, I actually didnt KNOW it was originally scores for Requiem. That alone makes a huge sway in my understanding of "why" about this. This movie has stuck with me in ways not many other movies have. That last image of all four of them in the fetal position HAUNTS me. It was definitely one of the first things I saw that pushed me into film analysis bc it felt so deep... definitely too deep for a preteen. Fantastic. video, Spikima, as usual. I'd love to see you cover The Fall sometime!
This is my favorite break down of this movie! Sound is so huge in RFaD.
I remember watching "Requiem for a Dream" six times and it still traumatized me to this day.But then seeing your video really made me want to re-watch the film again last night and you're right. It's music is one of the most unique compositions ever because it sets the mood for what kind of movie you're watching. "Requiem for a dream" is a horror movie. I say that because the music genuinely is so scary because it matches the situations our protagonists end up in. Every single one of them had unrealistic expectations of their futures, but because their addictions became the focal point, it not only destroys their lives but it destroys any possibility of them achieving their dreams. Great video!
I LOVE the music from this movie..so inspiring to draw and paint...I love it, so relaxing.
Requiem for a Dream is one of the very few movies I've a difficult time watching. One of the very very few films that really causes a certain hurt. I genuinely love the movie, but it's one I haven't seen for almost a decade in my early twenties. Certain parts hit maybe a little to close and are certainly powerful enough to have possibly altered the paths of many lives out there. Thank you for this breakdown of sound. It was very enjoyable and well executed. Thank you.
i love your channel so much
Great analysis...one of the best lessons I took from my hs choir teacher (in the 70's) was he drilled us on certain chord compositions and the emotions it's meant to evoke .....I've always noticed it in movies ever since... (diminished, augmented, major, minor) this is filled with all but the major chord formation...this is filled with augmented ( the train whistle feeling and diminished ( the confused feeling)
When I was in high school, I was looking for a piece to practice and found 'Requiem for a Dream'. I was entranced as to how beautiful it is. I listened to the piano arrangement and it gives off more of 'that feeling'. It's my all time favorite piece to play on the piano. I never get tired of it.
requiem for a dream - is a masterpiece of depression. Everyone should watch this film. But only once - more would end in suicide.
Thanks for this analysis. The movie was very brutal and raw. It's good to see it on the spotlight and given the attention such a brilliant and emotional movie deserves. This brought flashbacks of the intense predicament the characters were in.
Watched the first half of this video, was interested, checked netflix, watched the actual film, came back and finished the video, what a profound piece of cinema and a very good analysis of the music, if if watched the movie without seeing some of this, I might not have noticed just how impactful the music is
The audio editing is superb. Nice work!
My partner had introduced me to the movie (used to love 30 seconds to mars/ Jared Leto so he was surprised i hadn't watched it before) and by the end, I was a sad mess. I think after, I omitted the movie from memory because I don't remember a lot. I'll have to give it another watch as it's been about a decade. Also, Good Time was such an intense film! Gave me major Of Mice and Men vibes.
I saw this movie in the cinema when I as 17. I got the tickets for free and didnt know what it was about. Im still scarred after watching this, in total chock, its a masterpiece and should be shown in school to kids who are curious to try drugs.
I watched this when I was still in high school preparing for final exams and mentally in a terrible place I felt lost, burnt out, overwhelmed and was slowly becoming generally hopeless I knew the film's score before I even knew about the movie itself I got curious and I liked Jared Leto so ofc I went to search for it I didn't find any other access to it other than a mirrored low quality version on youtube... me being very empathetic and receptive to moods in music the whole package just messed me up maybe I shouldn't have watched it at the time and I was in fact aware of that back then but I still did idk what I expected to happen but ofc my mind didn't take it well and my feelings grew even more dark I'm a middle class child that never has been in exposed to drugs or being able to relate to much pictured in the movie but it still got to me I think about if it actually stuck with me long term sometimes, it's been more than 10 years since I watched it