It’s very sad how Harry knew about his mother’s loneliness and addiction and still walked away from her in this scene. All she ever wanted was him to pay more attention to her, him spending time with her would have been a much better gift than a TV. If only he stayed behind and made her get help here, her fate would have been vastly different. Throughout the movie I always noticed these scenes where it’s very clear that each character had a chance for redemption and yet they continued to spiral down the dark path. Very sad yet realistic. Ironic how he knows addiction kills, but he himself is an addict.
@charlotterxx3 жыл бұрын
So sad and realistic indeed. Ohhhhh... The whole world is like this.
@patrickwalt69032 жыл бұрын
you cant depend on your kids. many years ago and in poorer countries, parents lived with their kids until they passed, due to necessity. Now your very lucky if you kid will keep you with them. for lonely people out their, volenteerwork is a great way to keep busy, contribute to society and make a positive difference.
@zarakareem47162 жыл бұрын
@@zarakareem4716 Can you depend on your parents? Not sure you understand this scene...
@gary6099062 жыл бұрын
The reason he leaves is because he can't bare to face that truth for too long.. the same reason she lets him go.. the same reason she stays.
@captainnes85202 жыл бұрын
@@gary609906 Thank God I can. This scene is lonelness, isolation, desperation to fit in and be validated. My point being, if you dont have family, after you retire it can get very very very lonely. Doing volenterwork, like helping kids in a library with their homework, or a hospital or animal shelter. It gives you a sense of community, belonging, and value if you choose to do it.
@zarakareem4716 Жыл бұрын
"I want you to be happy...so I got you a brand new TV set!" The saddest/most pointed line in the whole movie. So many layers.
@serenabramble2603 жыл бұрын
Would you mind explaining the different layers?
@JesusChristTheOne2 жыл бұрын
Yes, please explain.
@MrSebastian22032 жыл бұрын
@@JesusChristTheOne TV caused her downfall
@Sandlerverse2 жыл бұрын
Before this scene, he also told Marion "If ever there was a TV junkie, its the old lady." So he felt the only thing he needed to do to make his mother happy was feed her addiction.
@XYouVandal2 жыл бұрын
Nowadays it might be a mobile phone and in the future some form of AI. Loneliness is one of the most palpable human raw emotions.
@megr3666 Жыл бұрын
I can't believe she didn't get an Oscar for this performance. God I can feel her emotions in this scene. Ellen Burstyn actually said when she said the line "I'm old" it wasn't acting she had never thought about her age until that script and it actually genuinely hit her hard.
@mrmicromini9 ай бұрын
The raw emotions of loneliness in this scene are heartbreaking. After this scene all the characters began their descent into hell. They are all at the point of no return. I have no idea why Ellen Burstyn did not win the Academy Award for this. The woman is epic in this.
@chrismctague34982 жыл бұрын
Dude thank you! No one ever knowledges her phenomenal and nuanced performance in this role. Truly epic
@christianwebb56532 жыл бұрын
All the actors were excellent but Ellen really knocked it out of the park
@omairsheikh3982 Жыл бұрын
because of Julia Roberts being Julia Roberts.
@joanna73506 ай бұрын
It infuriates me to this day that she didn’t get the academy award
@orgywithpigs6Ай бұрын
How she's sad and still kind of smiling because of the mania is a scary detail
@lauratude51323 жыл бұрын
its not the mania, she is trying to hide her sadness.
@zarakareem47162 жыл бұрын
@@zarakareem4716 No, it was the mania because that's how the uppers sometimes work.
@ffann100 Жыл бұрын
@@ffann100 it could be either or a mixture of both honestly. Some people still force a smile or a happy attitude when inside they're an emotion wreck and it shows through their act. Could also be the uppers too which gives her a lot of energy but maybe not mania. Not yet in the movie at least.
@Xavieus Жыл бұрын
They got a lot of the little things right. Like when Harry is taking the TV out his ma's house at the beginning. She looks through the keyhole and when he stops pushing the TV to ask her to come out, he leans on the TV and his legs shake just a small bit. Accurate portrayal of dopesickness.
@hellbent18 Жыл бұрын
@@Xavieus its also the amphetamines
@pavelcerny2043 Жыл бұрын
This movie is horribly realistic. For once a movie that doesn't hide anything, it truly captures how hard life is without relying on dumb deus ex machina solutions that don't really happen. Here you see a man who has to make the choice between building a life and taking care of his mother. Here you see a woman who has lost it all and has to rely on fabricated happiness. Here you see the choice between living up to expectations and realizing how unrealistic they really are. This movie took courage and I respect it for what it is.
@juantorres-fk7bk4 жыл бұрын
But Harry, also on drugs, relies on fabricated happiness as well.
@hollysorensen17113 жыл бұрын
You can't chase happiness and be normal and well-adjusted at the same time. That's the dark truth drugs will tell you.
@gabrielfranciscorp3 жыл бұрын
Here you see a man who has to make the choice between building a life and taking care of his mother. - hes using drugs -fabricated happyness- and not building anything XD wtf do you mean?
@purelucknoskill51582 жыл бұрын
It’s realistic up until the end. Then it gets caught up in its cynicism and becomes less grounded. While the last ten minutes are very disturbing it feels more like an overly dramatic PSA.
@sachemofboston3649 Жыл бұрын
If anything, it's one of those ( as crude as this may sound ) "Shut up and take it for what it really is or GTFO here" type of movies, to make a movie that has that power in pulling at the audiences heartstrings and making them hope to God they don't suffer a similar fate is what I felt made RFAD one of the finest films ever made
@Dukesparrow1999 Жыл бұрын
When she says “it’s a reason to get up in the morning” it makes me tear up as I know how it feels to try get by day by day while suffering with mental health issues🥺 I still try to feel better to this day
@coolamy1042 жыл бұрын
sorry to hear that Amy. I've been dealing with pretty bad depression my whole life but about two years ago it got much worse and I had thoughts of ending my life. every day I have to avoid thinking about certain things or I go on a downward spiral and eventually I just cry until I can't do it anymore. I know this probably doesn't sound genuine being a youtube comment and all, but please talk to me if you need to. I'm not a doctor or a psychologist, just a guy who knows a little bit about mental health and how important it is.
@hypnos9336 Жыл бұрын
@@hypnos9336 same. Depression is a constant battle for me. I try my hardest to not think about things I regret, or guilt or worries of my future but it's all there constantly. Its hard to rest many times because I'm just stuck in this spiral of misery in my head. This all started when my mom passed away.
@SpadezMedia Жыл бұрын
@@SpadezMedia I hear you. I've forced myself to stop dwelling on the things in my life that I can't change (I tend to live in the past, not the future), and try to focus on things I need to do right now. It's kind of like... you have to train your mind to think a certain way. It's a constant effort but just like anything else, you get better with practice. I'm sorry to hear about your loss and I hope you feel better soon.
@hypnos9336 Жыл бұрын
The struggles of a first world life are so hard
@SergyMilitaryRankings Жыл бұрын
@@SergyMilitaryRankings I take it you have no experience with depression. Good for you, it really sucks
@hypnos9336 Жыл бұрын
I feel for this mother, and Burstyn gives a complex and realistic portrayal of an addict's denial. My mother has the same issues with being addicted to TV and prescription drugs. I hope for the best, but I fear the worst.
@clresseg6 жыл бұрын
dont know if you can call it denial when she has no reason to live for.
@draganoiugeorge60106 жыл бұрын
so how is she now? sorry if i sound rude
@ericharris73214 жыл бұрын
Show her this movie, it might help her
@patrickblake1234 жыл бұрын
@@ericharris7321 it’s a movie bruh
@jesuschrist23463 жыл бұрын
She was the hardest demise of a character I have ever seen.
@dlsmith3002012 жыл бұрын
It’s criminal that Ellen Burstyn did not win the Oscar for this role.
@amylyno2 жыл бұрын
It’s one of the best roles in movies it’s so sad how she’s a lonely and confused old woman
@hippiecheezburger54572 ай бұрын
This scene taught me, up to a fault, that I should always be there for my mother or my grandmothers because they're alone and lonely without their husbands by their side. I'm currently living with my grandmother on an indefinite note because she's got no one to care for her, and she's too old to care for herself. It also struck a chord on just how lonely I am, too. It doesn't matter if I've got friends. It really isn't the same. They don't NEED me. Maybe they don't even WANT me. I'm virtually the one initiating meetings to hang out, or initiating conversations, but they don't at all.
@s.a.37403 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad you and your grandmother have each other especially during covid. I hope you hear more from people you didn't expect to reach out. Thank you for reaching out to others. It's the harder thing to do.
@msjennifer61193 жыл бұрын
She’s lucky to have you. I’m sorry you’re feeling this about your friends. I know that is hard.
@JordanBuckelew2 жыл бұрын
Wass up..
@amberdev5634 Жыл бұрын
You can really see the lack of real cummunication and listening between te mother and son. Seeing sweet old Sara so desperate for her son's warmth. Lonliness drove her to madness. The drugs were merely a trigger. Superb acting and directing. Neither of them really listens or even really tells the truth. Its far beyond heart breaking..
@ratchetleague12853 жыл бұрын
This scene alone far outweighs w/e Roberts did in the whole Erin Brockovich movie! It's a travesty she didn't win. The biggest oscar robbery of all time.
@jay_kulina4 жыл бұрын
Still blows me away she didn’t win.
@paulxavier65325 жыл бұрын
There's a horrible sense of foreboding at the end of this scene, the eerie music highlighting that this is the beginning of everything falling apart
@leemillington94194 жыл бұрын
Exactly, this could well be the end of the movie.
@MrOswald2 жыл бұрын
She was robbed of so many awards for this performance. Not just as Oscar but to me she should have won a Golden Globe, Emmy and SAG award. Roberts wasn't awful but her performance was really nothing special, she won due to being the golden girl of Hollywood in a typical film that does well with the underdog female fighting injustice and winning type plot. Fortunately, I think as time has gone on Burstyn's performance just improves and holds up whereas Roberts is pretty much forgotten about.
@WelshSwan19863 жыл бұрын
What movie did Roberts win here rewards ?
@DoubleDash282 жыл бұрын
@@DoubleDash28 Erin Brokovich.
@WelshSwan19862 жыл бұрын
I’m not being hyperbolic when I say Ellen not getting the academy award is tragic
@orgywithpigs62 жыл бұрын
julia roberts is a terrible actress. she's also not nearly as beautiful as people make her out to be. I really do not understand the hype with her, at all
@hypnos9336 Жыл бұрын
how does one win an emmy from a film role
@chadglannister1633 Жыл бұрын
it's the "bye, son" that breaks me.... that speech always has me in tears hut when u see her standing there by herself just saying buh bye to her baby... I dunno... I breakdown crying
@spitkitten2 жыл бұрын
I fear nothing more than seeing this happen to someone I love. A woman who believes her reason to live already died, so she clutches at a false hope to feel the smallest reason to continue breathing. That hope ended up not killing her, but killing off everything she used to or could be. Life was too lonely inside her head, so the person she was her whole life died and instead, she became an empty shell of ever-repeating false hope which her only remaining loved ones have to watch, knowing the person they once knew will never return. It's so, so hard to watch; a heartbreaking masterpiece.
@AndyMacster3 жыл бұрын
Tonberry 🙂
@jesterconfit95493 жыл бұрын
@@jesterconfit9549 Yesh ^_^
@AndyMacster3 жыл бұрын
@Pink Girl It is so often a struggle and you aren't alone. Hang in there.
@pazuzu12610 ай бұрын
This has to be my favorite scene from a movie ever
@perry55096 жыл бұрын
Interesting you must be a cinemaphile
@lasvegassnowman55053 жыл бұрын
Probably one of the most depressing movies I've ever seen ;_;
@arcanesiren6294 жыл бұрын
honestly for me it's a tie between this movie and Twelve Years a Slave, but at least that movie ended on a high note.
@rapanuikapu9043 жыл бұрын
@amoretto Doubt it. Requiem is up there, but it sure didn't top Schindler's List as THE ultimately depressing movie out there, imo.
@arcanesiren6293 жыл бұрын
Yeah!!! but also dancing in the dark
@LuisGarcia-wx4hq3 жыл бұрын
Lilya4ever is the most depressing movie I watched
@Nocturama72 жыл бұрын
@@arcanesiren629 Requiem is def more depressing because it’s so realistic. Not just whitey bad porn
@noahlinden96412 жыл бұрын
Poor Sarah. I struggle with depression. I think about her when I get really down. I am lonely too girl! I get my fight back from this scene. What an amazing performance.
@Cutay7BOOTAY2 жыл бұрын
Hang in there. I suffered with anxiety and depression, but exercise, a routine, and my dog changed my life.
@darkshadow9552 жыл бұрын
@@darkshadow955 you are so kind thank you!
@Cutay7BOOTAY2 жыл бұрын
I’ve been there, struggled with addiction as well. You can do this, even if it doesn’t seem that way most of the time. Hope you’re feeling better.
@omairsheikh3982 Жыл бұрын
Me too. This movie made me feel so depressed
@bethanyoneal578922 күн бұрын
It’s genius how the shot-reverse-shot changes sides when he realises the state his mother is in. I think this conveys a paternal instinct essentially swapping sides. So subtle, so clever.
@chrisharris99048 ай бұрын
I paused the dvd and went on KZhead to see if others like me are touched by this powerful monologue and brilliant acting, and I just shed a tear, here you are! I'm not alone. I belong to a lost generation and I only find myself when I witness in the company of others, the loneliness of the people.
@moonwalkdreamer3 жыл бұрын
What do you mean lost generation? that sounds heartbreaking
@wcsdiaries3 жыл бұрын
@@wcsdiaries There are many lost generations mixed in the layers of the society. My personal case is being born in an comunist country, seen the idea of freedom emerging just before my adolescence, then spending all my beautiful youth years only hoping to have "a country like outside" while passing through a very slow transition that took 30 years and still going, because the political structure and folk mentality remained the same after the revolution. My homeland is changed now, people are more educated, there are more opportunities, but my life is spent, wasted. I'm not everything I could've been and that makes me suffer dreadfully.
@moonwalkdreamer3 жыл бұрын
@@moonwalkdreamer I am so sorry to hear that. What country is that? I lived in armenia and I met many people who had the same fate growing up in a former soviet republic.
@wcsdiaries3 жыл бұрын
@@wcsdiaries I was born in the paradoxical blessed and cursed România. I perfectly understand those Armenian people. And today I hear youngsters saying that communism is a good ideology, but wrongly applied, that if they were in power, utopia would've become reality. This is fascism and communism, one more murder away from utopia. I don’t understand how can they be willfully blind to the facts: both ideologies are murderous and we have millions of dead bodies to prove it. If you were in power you would either become corrupt or killed by the system. But this is it, people are possessed by ideologies and an ideolog doesn’t want to understand the world, he wants to change it.
@moonwalkdreamer3 жыл бұрын
@@moonwalkdreamer out of curiosity, would u vote Trump or Biden if u lived in USA?
@scarecrowbar663 жыл бұрын
Sara's story touched me the most actually 😭
@_Mayyou_3 жыл бұрын
Me too 😞 the crushing loneliness and her ending up in the mental hospital was heartbreaking
@bethanyoneal578922 күн бұрын
Did you see who got the best seat in the sun!? I'm somebody now, Harry! Everybody likes me...
@gobbleswells28833 жыл бұрын
😢
@ishtarbabylon48693 жыл бұрын
Notice at 3:30 Harry's face goes from in light to in darkness upon finding out about his mom's addiction Beautiful symbolism you probably never noticed
@ReubenModeXXX5 жыл бұрын
6:55 I'm more fascinated by Harry clenching his jaw; just that slight concave shadow along the lit side of his face....conveys so much.
@kadejito14 жыл бұрын
This scene goes miles in proving Aronofsky is still a deeply talented director when you take away the bells and whistles of his editing and camera gimmicks. This feels more like a play, where it's just two people in a room without many noticeable camera movements, but when it moves, it's significant. The camera literally shifts with his thought process.
@serenabramble2603 жыл бұрын
It was a deliberate pull across Harry's face. Usually the camera shouldn't move like that, but in this case it was to bring the audience from the light banter into the darker world of drug addiction. The typical problem with this camera move is to create a smooth transition back to the light. The camera jumps back to the light side when Sara Goldfarb gets up and makes a quip about Albert Einstein, helping to mask the roughness of the transition. Good sound production as well, dropping in the teeth grinding a couple of times before Harry zeroes in on it.
@Rob_FPGSanctuary3 жыл бұрын
This technique of changing from light to darkness when the mood of the scene changes is literally pointed out in the director's commentary on the DVD.
@DarthMohammedRules2 жыл бұрын
Notice how the frames of Sara Goldfarb before the 7:02 mark and after it are slightly different. Before, her chin and a little shoulder is visible. After her forehead and hair cover a larger portion of the frame. This is an accident by the cameraman who cried during the screen and let the camera drift off. The change in detail is very very small but Darren Aronofsky let it slip because it evoked the intended emotion.
@swapnalis96293 жыл бұрын
"How come you know so much? How come you know more about medicine than a doctor?" That line hit me in a way I didn't expect. Along with "Now when I get the sun, I smile!" Very realistic film.
@hellbent18 Жыл бұрын
"It's a reason to wake up in the morning, a reason to smile" An AWESOME performance, the first time I saw this scene I cried, it is so realistic that it hurts...
@MrOswald2 жыл бұрын
Having cared for my recently deceased grandma who had mild dementia and an increasing lack of lucidness, watching this scene made my soul hit ground zero. God I can’t imagine how excruciatingly similar everyday was for her just sitting in front of her TV watching the same episodes of Law & Order all alone when I wasn’t around. I can’t draw any drug abuse comparisons between them, or the attempt to recreate their golden years, but the loneliness they both seemed to experience at this age is enough to just destroy me inside. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. God bless, and please take care of yourselves
@DJehck2 жыл бұрын
God bless man :) , Movie made me realize same thing. Care more about my mom
@noahlinden96412 жыл бұрын
This movie was all around rough to digest. But the mother, and her arc and her acting gutted me. Her crying to her imagination and begging to feel understood and loved. I remember crying uncontrollably and never feeling the same again.
@joebush94604 ай бұрын
This got to be one of the best if not the best acted scene I have ever seen
@litapanther16333 жыл бұрын
As someone who has been through heroin addiction, I can tell you that this movie is incredibly realistic. It’s hard for me to watch and I’ve been clean and sober for 10 years.
@jackrockwell66983 жыл бұрын
Congratulations on your sobriety
@thevagabondsageinthewoods2 жыл бұрын
Great work brother Hope ur doing fine!!
@prabhanjannavarathna64662 жыл бұрын
@@prabhanjannavarathna6466 getting ready for work right now from the comfort of the home I own. My life couldn’t be better.
@jackrockwell66982 жыл бұрын
@@jackrockwell6698 that's amazing, I genuinely wish that may u lead the rest of your life in the same happy way.
@prabhanjannavarathna64662 жыл бұрын
@@prabhanjannavarathna6466 same to you my friend
@jackrockwell66982 жыл бұрын
It’s criminal that Ellen Burstyn did not win an Oscar for this performance!
@amylyno2 жыл бұрын
“It makes tomorrow alright” hit right down to the core man
@donovan9428 ай бұрын
How did she not win the Oscar for this? Insane.
@wavealip8059 Жыл бұрын
Oscars are more of a popularity contest. No other performance deserved an Oscar more than Ellen’s in this movie
@omairsheikh3982 Жыл бұрын
This monologue has absolutely blown me away. Some of the best acting I've seen in a long long time
@CHROMIUMHEROmusic2 жыл бұрын
I remember the first time I saw this movie, I literally felt stunned afterwards. I had to get up and walk around and catch my breathe. Never had a movie effect me in that way. It still kicks my @$$ everytime I see it.
@HlotSfan Жыл бұрын
Couldn’t get this movie out of my head for days after watching it. I’ve seen great films but this one was something else
@omairsheikh3982 Жыл бұрын
Ellen Burstyn absolutely kills it in this movie.
@jaedaens3 жыл бұрын
"Bye, son." Fuck, seriously?? She absolutely nailed that scene.
@shaka9944 ай бұрын
I like it how Harry knows how dangerous drugs are and try to advice her mother. Then after this scene we can see Harry on a taxi anger crying because first he knows that drugs are bad for anyone and second because what he has been doing with other people (Selling them drugs) someone else is doing the same to her mother. If I had been Harry I would have stayed with Sarah, but I think by this moment in the film he was already looking for drugs so he had to go.
@MrCaquita232 жыл бұрын
It's films like this which scare me far more than a horror with ghosts or people jumping out at you ever could. It's realism which is scarier than horror films.
@brettsinclaire4007 Жыл бұрын
2:26 breaks my heart
@williamt5945 жыл бұрын
Lol it warms my heart seeing the silly old bat flumping
@poncho123913 жыл бұрын
This is the one scene I cant get through without tearing up. Something about Ellen Burstyn's voice thats haunting and tears at the soul.
@greuser Жыл бұрын
Every bit as heartbreaking as the day I saw this for the first time. I'm just glad Ellen Burstyn at least got that Oscar nomination for this, though I still think (like many out there) that she should've won that. That entire cast was just amazing.
@davemillet41603 жыл бұрын
I had watched this on youtube before because I’d been told about how powerful of a scene this is, but upon watching this in the context of the actual film for the first time tonight… I have to say that this is one of the best acting performances I have ever seen, top 5 easily
@joeagger2 ай бұрын
I did this monologue (tried to) for high school theatre and couldn’t do it without crying
@katykins20103 жыл бұрын
I had a friend in hs who studied Jennifer Connelly's character to help her prepare for the lead in Juvie, a play about juvenile delinquents. I don't think Ellen Burstyn's performance resonated w/ her back then. U must be old for ur age. :)
@scarecrowbar663 жыл бұрын
It seems like Ellen Burstyn couldn’t do it without crying
@fwpdw74323 жыл бұрын
@@fwpdw7432 I think that’s the point
@katykins2010 Жыл бұрын
Ellen what an actress Her acting is so real
@mohammedbilal71194 ай бұрын
This is horrifically real. It's like watching my own mother.
@andimuhle2 жыл бұрын
This is the most depressing movie ever made
@katykins20103 жыл бұрын
I found it strangely cathartic.
@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 Жыл бұрын
@@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 yeah crying is cathartic to me surprisingly
@katykins2010 Жыл бұрын
@@katykins2010 i think crying is always cathartic if you think about it. But i found this movie absolutely riveting. Especially watching it the first time i tried speed
@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 Жыл бұрын
@@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 yeah this movie definitely has always had a toll on me that’s for sure. The fist time I watched it I cried for quite some time
@katykins2010 Жыл бұрын
@@katykins2010 how old were you when you first watched it?
@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 Жыл бұрын
Every time I want to rewatch the movie, have to think twice because the emotion is very true, especially the mom part. It's a heartbreaking and powerful performance.
@LooKokSeng2 жыл бұрын
This is one of the most upsetting movies I have ever seen. I love the tone of it and the sorrow.
@EUROPAMusicOfficialChannel2 жыл бұрын
I’m 25, my mom is 68 (my parents got me at an old age) and whenever I see that movie, I think about if this were to happen to my mother. This is heartbreaking.
@karazimsabour7899 Жыл бұрын
it infuriates me how he neglected his mother. Sure, you grow tired of your parents, and you want to go your own way. But he just needed to visit her more often, get her out of the house for walks and such, come over to make her some dinner, could have even gotten her a pet or some plants to look after. This scene breaks my heart because i see my own mom in her, and i can't stomach the thought of her feeling abandoned and unloved. You need to take care of your loved ones. Harry was a naive selfish child and everyone around him burned because of it. When his loved ones (Mariam & Mother) needed him most he cowered away. Symbolic how he lost an arm in the end, kinda showing how he never reached out to other's when they most needed it
@coolbeans5911 Жыл бұрын
He was suffering from addiction
@SergyMilitaryRankings Жыл бұрын
I don't think it's fair to blame everyone's problems on Harry
@ArvelDreth Жыл бұрын
children are not responsible for being their parents friends or reason to live
@peterberg8417 Жыл бұрын
@@peterberg8417 what a lowlife response, hope your kids abandon you when you get dementia or something
@SergyMilitaryRankings Жыл бұрын
@@peterberg8417 if we deny our own responsibility towards our loved ones then we have truly failed. Everyone needs a support system. Family and friends go through tough times and you have to show that you are there for them if need be. Instead Harry decided to steal from his mother in her old age and ignore her suffering. Now in the end we see him completely alone, no loved one there to console him, and it was all his doing. You reap what you sow
@coolbeans5911 Жыл бұрын
I watched this scene and couldn’t get it out of my head for years and didn’t even know the name. Very impactful
@alexiocatan56022 жыл бұрын
Sara’s story is the most profound in this movie. If you took her out of the film, you’d just have a movie about the dangers of heroin. But as the director once said, with Sara’s story, this is a film about the dangers of drugs, period. It asks the question of which drugs are good or bad. Also, about this scene, Ellen was so convincing in her performance that the cinematographer was crying while taping the shot during her monologue
@allys744 Жыл бұрын
Yeah the bulk of the film’s characterisation goes to Sara, her actress kills it, and she gives the film so much in terms of haunting poignancy in amongst the hard-hitting shockwaves of her decline. Definitely the protagonist. Love and hate this film! One of the best of the 21st century.
@benlong4277 Жыл бұрын
It's not about drugs, period. It's about addiction, and the feelings of unhappiness and longing for a better time in your life that cause it.
@etalex70743 ай бұрын
Grown kids think about how your parents feel. It's the truth for so many people after their "duties" in life are over whether or not they ever touch drugs.
@anonymousandcool4 жыл бұрын
This is the scariest move ever made.
@gpaffy140 Жыл бұрын
Heart wrenching
@caitlinisfruity4 жыл бұрын
Ellen barkin really knows how to get into a character, shes so believable & honest as her character, fine actress
@lukeallan88762 жыл бұрын
Ellen Burstyn (Sara Goldfarb) in this movie is hands-down the best acting I have ever seen in my life. It is a travesty that she did not win an Oscar for this scene.
@markalexander3659 Жыл бұрын
as a now functioning addict who used to shoot a bun and a half a day this scene breaks my heart my Mother god bless didn't know any better she was in her late 20s where i am now introduced me to psychiatric meds at a young age I was in 3rd or 4th grade when i started adderall i started taking benzos in 7th grade because my parents were going through a brutal divorce shit like this is so accurate and it always hits home for me
@samuelpatrickbrigante635 Жыл бұрын
Having children doesn’t assure you that they are going to respond you the way you want, no matter how wonderful you have been to them! True and sad story, and very clear message throughout this movie 😢 … People can have several children, but it doesn’t mean that necessarily are free from experiencing loneliness when they choose their paths. That’s why is always important to not neglect yourself and avoid devoting your entire life to your family!
@rickr74126 күн бұрын
It’s like watching my own personal nightmare
@DecentPlayerNA2 жыл бұрын
Matthew Libatique (the Cinematographer) moved the camera after fogging up the camera lens from crying while shooting Ellen Burstyn.
@CrodolookslikeFrody2 жыл бұрын
Ellen Burstyn is on top of all of Hollywood with this performance. She is magnificent! Raw. Real. Hard hitting. Big. She and Leto/Connelly/Wayans we’re all fabulous
@jasonmariani12582 жыл бұрын
Some outstanding acting
@anthonytrevino85872 жыл бұрын
This is the scariest movie there is.
@brendanbroas40062 жыл бұрын
best scene in the movie
@donovan9423 жыл бұрын
I was reading some of the commentary the author of the book and Aronofsky wrote. Aronofsky was having some trouble making this film because he had no idea of the protagonist was. Then it hit him. The protagonist, the “hero” of the movie, is addiction. And the hero’s journey is the triumph of addiction over the human spirit. Needless to say this left me feeling somehow even worse, which I was not sure was possible after this movie ripped my soul out of my butthole Fuckin’ a. Ellen Burstyn was robbed by the academy
@orbitalbutt67572 жыл бұрын
Best scene of a great film
@benlong4277 Жыл бұрын
During Ellen Burstyn's impassioned monologue about how it feels to be old, cinematographer Matthew Libatique accidentally let the camera drift off-target. When director Darren Aronofsky called "cut" and confronted him about it, he realized the reason Libatique had let the camera drift was because he had been crying during the take and fogged up the camera's eyepiece.
@michaelmuldowney8 Жыл бұрын
Him keep saying "for Christ's sake" is actually annoying lol
@stylishemerald31813 жыл бұрын
Eh can you blame him?
@Densester3 жыл бұрын
I'm curious how Aronofsky directed Burstyn. I think he just told her, your goal for this scene is to smile big for Harry.
@thebookwasbetter36502 жыл бұрын
The truth is that most ppl cannot stand the thought of being unimportant. This movie is not only about addiction. Selfdelusion, lack of selfinsight.
@TheYlro2 жыл бұрын
I cried
@matthewjones5432 жыл бұрын
Wish the scene after this was left in. Harry breaking down in the cab and then shooting up and looking like an absolute zombie
@jordanmcquay90772 жыл бұрын
sarah i relate to you so much. i love you
@allah73311 ай бұрын
Im 25 and already feels like this, been on “uppers” for 3 years now just to feel something
@juanita_piju2 жыл бұрын
What kind of uppers? Adderall?
@cruisingscenesandtakingbea41972 жыл бұрын
Only 3 years? Child's play. Lol jk. But ive been takin em for 10 years, although they've never been my drug of choice so ive taken 6-9 month breaks and been totally fine
@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 Жыл бұрын
@@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 see and I thought in these 3 years I’ve done irreversible damage to my body but u seem to being doing well..hmmm.. Lol I’ve recently kicked the habit, it’s been a month I’ve never been so sleepy/ tired in my goddang life I hope “being healthy” is worth it lol
@juanita_piju Жыл бұрын
@@juanita_piju being healthy IS worth it man. For context I used to be a heroin/fent/xanax addict and very bad one too. As long as i never touch those 3 again, a little adderall here and there never did me wrong!
@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 Жыл бұрын
@@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 I see, I appreciate the honesty, hope the new year brings good blessings 🤗
@juanita_piju Жыл бұрын
“I’m sorry for being such a bastard. I want to make it up. I mean, I know I can’t change anything that’s happened, but I want you to know that I love you and I’m sorry.” There are so many people I’ve wanted to say this to. This movie just took the words straight out of my mouth.
@AngelAeonian13 күн бұрын
visit your grandparents kids. give them chores.
@draganoiugeorge60106 жыл бұрын
Word?
@scarecrowbar663 жыл бұрын
Assuming that everybody gets along with their relatives. If people stop visiting there are good reasons.
@DeltaPi3143 жыл бұрын
@@DeltaPi314 If its not because they dont get along, its because they have lives
@pathetic2399 Жыл бұрын
Just an impossible scene to watch, it hurts so much
@roy9910102 жыл бұрын
Burstyn gives masterclass here.
@ManosTsakas3 ай бұрын
Despite how much of a weirdo Jared Leto is, his performance in this movie was incredible. Ellen Burstyn was amazing, too.
@philbateman1989 Жыл бұрын
She should have won an oscar for this role! Its a crime she didn't.
@MichelleMcGill-ej3bk3 ай бұрын
The ONLY thing this movie got wrong about addiction is that heroin pinpoints your pupils, it does not dilate them. Outside of that tiny issue, this movie depicts the feelings involved with addiction better than other any movie I have ever seen by a long shot.
@IAmKrazyKyle4 ай бұрын
i cried so hard. and i rarely do that. wow
@lasse.853 Жыл бұрын
Aw man... I can't even finish this
@therupoe3 жыл бұрын
The most effective part for me.
@Louise-wk5yf10 ай бұрын
Definitely, it’s extremely realistic
@donovan9428 ай бұрын
I think the saddest part of this is that Harry tries to talk her out of her diet pills, and then gives up when she tells him about the Red Dress. If you're already on your way down, you can tell somebody at the top not to slip, but there's nothing you can do for someone who's sliding down right next to you, headed to the same rock-bottom you are.
@tatertots333710 ай бұрын
I only need my kids to see 2 films: "Full Metal Jacket", to keep them out of endless wars of choice, and this one, to keep them away from drugs.
@surrealistidealistАй бұрын
I wish this included the scene afterwards w/ Harry in the cab clearly distraught about his mother's addiction & immediately numbs himself out by getting high.
@KleWdSide9 ай бұрын
It’s so sad that yet Harry knew about his moms addiction and how lonely she felt, he still didn’t stay and help.
@sirsquidwardtortellini85952 жыл бұрын
Because he was suffering from his own addiction. After this scene he goes in the car and cries, and then does heroine to distract himself. He was definitely affected by his mother’s sadness
@omairsheikh3982 Жыл бұрын
How Ellen Burstyn didn't win the Academy Award for Best Actress for this movie over Julia Robert's Erin Brockovich was total bullshit and Highway robbery ! This scene always made me cry 😢 😭💔 ‼️
@GODLETMEWINAMEN2 жыл бұрын
Betty Davis would bow to Ellen. Glenn who? Bette is a vaudeville act in comparison. Julia Roberts? What a slap in the face. This is the standard throughout the history and future of film. How much did Julia's people pay for that Oscar?
@hectorhernandez37043 жыл бұрын
all of them had it bad omg i h8 this movie
@boomerkeewatin3 жыл бұрын
She is amazing in this scene. Truly tragic.
@anthonystafford1162 ай бұрын
Burstyn’s performance is not only the best performance from 2000, it may be the best ever. But I can partially forgive the Academy because I feel a lot better watching Julia Roberts save people as Erin Brockovich than watching Ellen Burstyn rip my heart out and fall apart as Sarah Goldfarb.
@NathanDav422 жыл бұрын
Oh,ma!!!!
@steevedaw5664 жыл бұрын
Ellen Burstyn performance was the saddest of all these stories. You can feel her pain and loneliness
@JoeMama-tl4tr3 ай бұрын
The fact that Ellen Burstyn didn't win the Oscar proves to me that it's rigged 😒...she is a revelation in this. DEVASTATING
It’s very sad how Harry knew about his mother’s loneliness and addiction and still walked away from her in this scene. All she ever wanted was him to pay more attention to her, him spending time with her would have been a much better gift than a TV. If only he stayed behind and made her get help here, her fate would have been vastly different. Throughout the movie I always noticed these scenes where it’s very clear that each character had a chance for redemption and yet they continued to spiral down the dark path. Very sad yet realistic. Ironic how he knows addiction kills, but he himself is an addict.
So sad and realistic indeed. Ohhhhh... The whole world is like this.
you cant depend on your kids. many years ago and in poorer countries, parents lived with their kids until they passed, due to necessity. Now your very lucky if you kid will keep you with them. for lonely people out their, volenteerwork is a great way to keep busy, contribute to society and make a positive difference.
@@zarakareem4716 Can you depend on your parents? Not sure you understand this scene...
The reason he leaves is because he can't bare to face that truth for too long.. the same reason she lets him go.. the same reason she stays.
@@gary609906 Thank God I can. This scene is lonelness, isolation, desperation to fit in and be validated. My point being, if you dont have family, after you retire it can get very very very lonely. Doing volenterwork, like helping kids in a library with their homework, or a hospital or animal shelter. It gives you a sense of community, belonging, and value if you choose to do it.
"I want you to be happy...so I got you a brand new TV set!" The saddest/most pointed line in the whole movie. So many layers.
Would you mind explaining the different layers?
Yes, please explain.
@@JesusChristTheOne TV caused her downfall
Before this scene, he also told Marion "If ever there was a TV junkie, its the old lady." So he felt the only thing he needed to do to make his mother happy was feed her addiction.
Nowadays it might be a mobile phone and in the future some form of AI. Loneliness is one of the most palpable human raw emotions.
I can't believe she didn't get an Oscar for this performance. God I can feel her emotions in this scene. Ellen Burstyn actually said when she said the line "I'm old" it wasn't acting she had never thought about her age until that script and it actually genuinely hit her hard.
The raw emotions of loneliness in this scene are heartbreaking. After this scene all the characters began their descent into hell. They are all at the point of no return. I have no idea why Ellen Burstyn did not win the Academy Award for this. The woman is epic in this.
Dude thank you! No one ever knowledges her phenomenal and nuanced performance in this role. Truly epic
All the actors were excellent but Ellen really knocked it out of the park
because of Julia Roberts being Julia Roberts.
It infuriates me to this day that she didn’t get the academy award
How she's sad and still kind of smiling because of the mania is a scary detail
its not the mania, she is trying to hide her sadness.
@@zarakareem4716 No, it was the mania because that's how the uppers sometimes work.
@@ffann100 it could be either or a mixture of both honestly. Some people still force a smile or a happy attitude when inside they're an emotion wreck and it shows through their act. Could also be the uppers too which gives her a lot of energy but maybe not mania. Not yet in the movie at least.
They got a lot of the little things right. Like when Harry is taking the TV out his ma's house at the beginning. She looks through the keyhole and when he stops pushing the TV to ask her to come out, he leans on the TV and his legs shake just a small bit. Accurate portrayal of dopesickness.
@@Xavieus its also the amphetamines
This movie is horribly realistic. For once a movie that doesn't hide anything, it truly captures how hard life is without relying on dumb deus ex machina solutions that don't really happen. Here you see a man who has to make the choice between building a life and taking care of his mother. Here you see a woman who has lost it all and has to rely on fabricated happiness. Here you see the choice between living up to expectations and realizing how unrealistic they really are. This movie took courage and I respect it for what it is.
But Harry, also on drugs, relies on fabricated happiness as well.
You can't chase happiness and be normal and well-adjusted at the same time. That's the dark truth drugs will tell you.
Here you see a man who has to make the choice between building a life and taking care of his mother. - hes using drugs -fabricated happyness- and not building anything XD wtf do you mean?
It’s realistic up until the end. Then it gets caught up in its cynicism and becomes less grounded. While the last ten minutes are very disturbing it feels more like an overly dramatic PSA.
If anything, it's one of those ( as crude as this may sound ) "Shut up and take it for what it really is or GTFO here" type of movies, to make a movie that has that power in pulling at the audiences heartstrings and making them hope to God they don't suffer a similar fate is what I felt made RFAD one of the finest films ever made
When she says “it’s a reason to get up in the morning” it makes me tear up as I know how it feels to try get by day by day while suffering with mental health issues🥺 I still try to feel better to this day
sorry to hear that Amy. I've been dealing with pretty bad depression my whole life but about two years ago it got much worse and I had thoughts of ending my life. every day I have to avoid thinking about certain things or I go on a downward spiral and eventually I just cry until I can't do it anymore. I know this probably doesn't sound genuine being a youtube comment and all, but please talk to me if you need to. I'm not a doctor or a psychologist, just a guy who knows a little bit about mental health and how important it is.
@@hypnos9336 same. Depression is a constant battle for me. I try my hardest to not think about things I regret, or guilt or worries of my future but it's all there constantly. Its hard to rest many times because I'm just stuck in this spiral of misery in my head. This all started when my mom passed away.
@@SpadezMedia I hear you. I've forced myself to stop dwelling on the things in my life that I can't change (I tend to live in the past, not the future), and try to focus on things I need to do right now. It's kind of like... you have to train your mind to think a certain way. It's a constant effort but just like anything else, you get better with practice. I'm sorry to hear about your loss and I hope you feel better soon.
The struggles of a first world life are so hard
@@SergyMilitaryRankings I take it you have no experience with depression. Good for you, it really sucks
I feel for this mother, and Burstyn gives a complex and realistic portrayal of an addict's denial. My mother has the same issues with being addicted to TV and prescription drugs. I hope for the best, but I fear the worst.
dont know if you can call it denial when she has no reason to live for.
so how is she now? sorry if i sound rude
Show her this movie, it might help her
@@ericharris7321 it’s a movie bruh
She was the hardest demise of a character I have ever seen.
It’s criminal that Ellen Burstyn did not win the Oscar for this role.
It’s one of the best roles in movies it’s so sad how she’s a lonely and confused old woman
This scene taught me, up to a fault, that I should always be there for my mother or my grandmothers because they're alone and lonely without their husbands by their side. I'm currently living with my grandmother on an indefinite note because she's got no one to care for her, and she's too old to care for herself. It also struck a chord on just how lonely I am, too. It doesn't matter if I've got friends. It really isn't the same. They don't NEED me. Maybe they don't even WANT me. I'm virtually the one initiating meetings to hang out, or initiating conversations, but they don't at all.
I'm so glad you and your grandmother have each other especially during covid. I hope you hear more from people you didn't expect to reach out. Thank you for reaching out to others. It's the harder thing to do.
She’s lucky to have you. I’m sorry you’re feeling this about your friends. I know that is hard.
Wass up..
You can really see the lack of real cummunication and listening between te mother and son. Seeing sweet old Sara so desperate for her son's warmth. Lonliness drove her to madness. The drugs were merely a trigger. Superb acting and directing. Neither of them really listens or even really tells the truth. Its far beyond heart breaking..
This scene alone far outweighs w/e Roberts did in the whole Erin Brockovich movie! It's a travesty she didn't win. The biggest oscar robbery of all time.
Still blows me away she didn’t win.
There's a horrible sense of foreboding at the end of this scene, the eerie music highlighting that this is the beginning of everything falling apart
Exactly, this could well be the end of the movie.
She was robbed of so many awards for this performance. Not just as Oscar but to me she should have won a Golden Globe, Emmy and SAG award. Roberts wasn't awful but her performance was really nothing special, she won due to being the golden girl of Hollywood in a typical film that does well with the underdog female fighting injustice and winning type plot. Fortunately, I think as time has gone on Burstyn's performance just improves and holds up whereas Roberts is pretty much forgotten about.
What movie did Roberts win here rewards ?
@@DoubleDash28 Erin Brokovich.
I’m not being hyperbolic when I say Ellen not getting the academy award is tragic
julia roberts is a terrible actress. she's also not nearly as beautiful as people make her out to be. I really do not understand the hype with her, at all
how does one win an emmy from a film role
it's the "bye, son" that breaks me.... that speech always has me in tears hut when u see her standing there by herself just saying buh bye to her baby... I dunno... I breakdown crying
I fear nothing more than seeing this happen to someone I love. A woman who believes her reason to live already died, so she clutches at a false hope to feel the smallest reason to continue breathing. That hope ended up not killing her, but killing off everything she used to or could be. Life was too lonely inside her head, so the person she was her whole life died and instead, she became an empty shell of ever-repeating false hope which her only remaining loved ones have to watch, knowing the person they once knew will never return. It's so, so hard to watch; a heartbreaking masterpiece.
Tonberry 🙂
@@jesterconfit9549 Yesh ^_^
@Pink Girl It is so often a struggle and you aren't alone. Hang in there.
This has to be my favorite scene from a movie ever
Interesting you must be a cinemaphile
Probably one of the most depressing movies I've ever seen ;_;
honestly for me it's a tie between this movie and Twelve Years a Slave, but at least that movie ended on a high note.
@amoretto Doubt it. Requiem is up there, but it sure didn't top Schindler's List as THE ultimately depressing movie out there, imo.
Yeah!!! but also dancing in the dark
Lilya4ever is the most depressing movie I watched
@@arcanesiren629 Requiem is def more depressing because it’s so realistic. Not just whitey bad porn
Poor Sarah. I struggle with depression. I think about her when I get really down. I am lonely too girl! I get my fight back from this scene. What an amazing performance.
Hang in there. I suffered with anxiety and depression, but exercise, a routine, and my dog changed my life.
@@darkshadow955 you are so kind thank you!
I’ve been there, struggled with addiction as well. You can do this, even if it doesn’t seem that way most of the time. Hope you’re feeling better.
Me too. This movie made me feel so depressed
It’s genius how the shot-reverse-shot changes sides when he realises the state his mother is in. I think this conveys a paternal instinct essentially swapping sides. So subtle, so clever.
I paused the dvd and went on KZhead to see if others like me are touched by this powerful monologue and brilliant acting, and I just shed a tear, here you are! I'm not alone. I belong to a lost generation and I only find myself when I witness in the company of others, the loneliness of the people.
What do you mean lost generation? that sounds heartbreaking
@@wcsdiaries There are many lost generations mixed in the layers of the society. My personal case is being born in an comunist country, seen the idea of freedom emerging just before my adolescence, then spending all my beautiful youth years only hoping to have "a country like outside" while passing through a very slow transition that took 30 years and still going, because the political structure and folk mentality remained the same after the revolution. My homeland is changed now, people are more educated, there are more opportunities, but my life is spent, wasted. I'm not everything I could've been and that makes me suffer dreadfully.
@@moonwalkdreamer I am so sorry to hear that. What country is that? I lived in armenia and I met many people who had the same fate growing up in a former soviet republic.
@@wcsdiaries I was born in the paradoxical blessed and cursed România. I perfectly understand those Armenian people. And today I hear youngsters saying that communism is a good ideology, but wrongly applied, that if they were in power, utopia would've become reality. This is fascism and communism, one more murder away from utopia. I don’t understand how can they be willfully blind to the facts: both ideologies are murderous and we have millions of dead bodies to prove it. If you were in power you would either become corrupt or killed by the system. But this is it, people are possessed by ideologies and an ideolog doesn’t want to understand the world, he wants to change it.
@@moonwalkdreamer out of curiosity, would u vote Trump or Biden if u lived in USA?
Sara's story touched me the most actually 😭
Me too 😞 the crushing loneliness and her ending up in the mental hospital was heartbreaking
Did you see who got the best seat in the sun!? I'm somebody now, Harry! Everybody likes me...
😢
Notice at 3:30 Harry's face goes from in light to in darkness upon finding out about his mom's addiction Beautiful symbolism you probably never noticed
6:55 I'm more fascinated by Harry clenching his jaw; just that slight concave shadow along the lit side of his face....conveys so much.
This scene goes miles in proving Aronofsky is still a deeply talented director when you take away the bells and whistles of his editing and camera gimmicks. This feels more like a play, where it's just two people in a room without many noticeable camera movements, but when it moves, it's significant. The camera literally shifts with his thought process.
It was a deliberate pull across Harry's face. Usually the camera shouldn't move like that, but in this case it was to bring the audience from the light banter into the darker world of drug addiction. The typical problem with this camera move is to create a smooth transition back to the light. The camera jumps back to the light side when Sara Goldfarb gets up and makes a quip about Albert Einstein, helping to mask the roughness of the transition. Good sound production as well, dropping in the teeth grinding a couple of times before Harry zeroes in on it.
This technique of changing from light to darkness when the mood of the scene changes is literally pointed out in the director's commentary on the DVD.
Notice how the frames of Sara Goldfarb before the 7:02 mark and after it are slightly different. Before, her chin and a little shoulder is visible. After her forehead and hair cover a larger portion of the frame. This is an accident by the cameraman who cried during the screen and let the camera drift off. The change in detail is very very small but Darren Aronofsky let it slip because it evoked the intended emotion.
"How come you know so much? How come you know more about medicine than a doctor?" That line hit me in a way I didn't expect. Along with "Now when I get the sun, I smile!" Very realistic film.
"It's a reason to wake up in the morning, a reason to smile" An AWESOME performance, the first time I saw this scene I cried, it is so realistic that it hurts...
Having cared for my recently deceased grandma who had mild dementia and an increasing lack of lucidness, watching this scene made my soul hit ground zero. God I can’t imagine how excruciatingly similar everyday was for her just sitting in front of her TV watching the same episodes of Law & Order all alone when I wasn’t around. I can’t draw any drug abuse comparisons between them, or the attempt to recreate their golden years, but the loneliness they both seemed to experience at this age is enough to just destroy me inside. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. God bless, and please take care of yourselves
God bless man :) , Movie made me realize same thing. Care more about my mom
This movie was all around rough to digest. But the mother, and her arc and her acting gutted me. Her crying to her imagination and begging to feel understood and loved. I remember crying uncontrollably and never feeling the same again.
This got to be one of the best if not the best acted scene I have ever seen
As someone who has been through heroin addiction, I can tell you that this movie is incredibly realistic. It’s hard for me to watch and I’ve been clean and sober for 10 years.
Congratulations on your sobriety
Great work brother Hope ur doing fine!!
@@prabhanjannavarathna6466 getting ready for work right now from the comfort of the home I own. My life couldn’t be better.
@@jackrockwell6698 that's amazing, I genuinely wish that may u lead the rest of your life in the same happy way.
@@prabhanjannavarathna6466 same to you my friend
It’s criminal that Ellen Burstyn did not win an Oscar for this performance!
“It makes tomorrow alright” hit right down to the core man
How did she not win the Oscar for this? Insane.
Oscars are more of a popularity contest. No other performance deserved an Oscar more than Ellen’s in this movie
This monologue has absolutely blown me away. Some of the best acting I've seen in a long long time
I remember the first time I saw this movie, I literally felt stunned afterwards. I had to get up and walk around and catch my breathe. Never had a movie effect me in that way. It still kicks my @$$ everytime I see it.
Couldn’t get this movie out of my head for days after watching it. I’ve seen great films but this one was something else
Ellen Burstyn absolutely kills it in this movie.
"Bye, son." Fuck, seriously?? She absolutely nailed that scene.
I like it how Harry knows how dangerous drugs are and try to advice her mother. Then after this scene we can see Harry on a taxi anger crying because first he knows that drugs are bad for anyone and second because what he has been doing with other people (Selling them drugs) someone else is doing the same to her mother. If I had been Harry I would have stayed with Sarah, but I think by this moment in the film he was already looking for drugs so he had to go.
It's films like this which scare me far more than a horror with ghosts or people jumping out at you ever could. It's realism which is scarier than horror films.
2:26 breaks my heart
Lol it warms my heart seeing the silly old bat flumping
This is the one scene I cant get through without tearing up. Something about Ellen Burstyn's voice thats haunting and tears at the soul.
Every bit as heartbreaking as the day I saw this for the first time. I'm just glad Ellen Burstyn at least got that Oscar nomination for this, though I still think (like many out there) that she should've won that. That entire cast was just amazing.
I had watched this on youtube before because I’d been told about how powerful of a scene this is, but upon watching this in the context of the actual film for the first time tonight… I have to say that this is one of the best acting performances I have ever seen, top 5 easily
I did this monologue (tried to) for high school theatre and couldn’t do it without crying
I had a friend in hs who studied Jennifer Connelly's character to help her prepare for the lead in Juvie, a play about juvenile delinquents. I don't think Ellen Burstyn's performance resonated w/ her back then. U must be old for ur age. :)
It seems like Ellen Burstyn couldn’t do it without crying
@@fwpdw7432 I think that’s the point
Ellen what an actress Her acting is so real
This is horrifically real. It's like watching my own mother.
This is the most depressing movie ever made
I found it strangely cathartic.
@@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 yeah crying is cathartic to me surprisingly
@@katykins2010 i think crying is always cathartic if you think about it. But i found this movie absolutely riveting. Especially watching it the first time i tried speed
@@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 yeah this movie definitely has always had a toll on me that’s for sure. The fist time I watched it I cried for quite some time
@@katykins2010 how old were you when you first watched it?
Every time I want to rewatch the movie, have to think twice because the emotion is very true, especially the mom part. It's a heartbreaking and powerful performance.
This is one of the most upsetting movies I have ever seen. I love the tone of it and the sorrow.
I’m 25, my mom is 68 (my parents got me at an old age) and whenever I see that movie, I think about if this were to happen to my mother. This is heartbreaking.
it infuriates me how he neglected his mother. Sure, you grow tired of your parents, and you want to go your own way. But he just needed to visit her more often, get her out of the house for walks and such, come over to make her some dinner, could have even gotten her a pet or some plants to look after. This scene breaks my heart because i see my own mom in her, and i can't stomach the thought of her feeling abandoned and unloved. You need to take care of your loved ones. Harry was a naive selfish child and everyone around him burned because of it. When his loved ones (Mariam & Mother) needed him most he cowered away. Symbolic how he lost an arm in the end, kinda showing how he never reached out to other's when they most needed it
He was suffering from addiction
I don't think it's fair to blame everyone's problems on Harry
children are not responsible for being their parents friends or reason to live
@@peterberg8417 what a lowlife response, hope your kids abandon you when you get dementia or something
@@peterberg8417 if we deny our own responsibility towards our loved ones then we have truly failed. Everyone needs a support system. Family and friends go through tough times and you have to show that you are there for them if need be. Instead Harry decided to steal from his mother in her old age and ignore her suffering. Now in the end we see him completely alone, no loved one there to console him, and it was all his doing. You reap what you sow
I watched this scene and couldn’t get it out of my head for years and didn’t even know the name. Very impactful
Sara’s story is the most profound in this movie. If you took her out of the film, you’d just have a movie about the dangers of heroin. But as the director once said, with Sara’s story, this is a film about the dangers of drugs, period. It asks the question of which drugs are good or bad. Also, about this scene, Ellen was so convincing in her performance that the cinematographer was crying while taping the shot during her monologue
Yeah the bulk of the film’s characterisation goes to Sara, her actress kills it, and she gives the film so much in terms of haunting poignancy in amongst the hard-hitting shockwaves of her decline. Definitely the protagonist. Love and hate this film! One of the best of the 21st century.
It's not about drugs, period. It's about addiction, and the feelings of unhappiness and longing for a better time in your life that cause it.
Grown kids think about how your parents feel. It's the truth for so many people after their "duties" in life are over whether or not they ever touch drugs.
This is the scariest move ever made.
Heart wrenching
Ellen barkin really knows how to get into a character, shes so believable & honest as her character, fine actress
Ellen Burstyn (Sara Goldfarb) in this movie is hands-down the best acting I have ever seen in my life. It is a travesty that she did not win an Oscar for this scene.
as a now functioning addict who used to shoot a bun and a half a day this scene breaks my heart my Mother god bless didn't know any better she was in her late 20s where i am now introduced me to psychiatric meds at a young age I was in 3rd or 4th grade when i started adderall i started taking benzos in 7th grade because my parents were going through a brutal divorce shit like this is so accurate and it always hits home for me
Having children doesn’t assure you that they are going to respond you the way you want, no matter how wonderful you have been to them! True and sad story, and very clear message throughout this movie 😢 … People can have several children, but it doesn’t mean that necessarily are free from experiencing loneliness when they choose their paths. That’s why is always important to not neglect yourself and avoid devoting your entire life to your family!
It’s like watching my own personal nightmare
Matthew Libatique (the Cinematographer) moved the camera after fogging up the camera lens from crying while shooting Ellen Burstyn.
Ellen Burstyn is on top of all of Hollywood with this performance. She is magnificent! Raw. Real. Hard hitting. Big. She and Leto/Connelly/Wayans we’re all fabulous
Some outstanding acting
This is the scariest movie there is.
best scene in the movie
I was reading some of the commentary the author of the book and Aronofsky wrote. Aronofsky was having some trouble making this film because he had no idea of the protagonist was. Then it hit him. The protagonist, the “hero” of the movie, is addiction. And the hero’s journey is the triumph of addiction over the human spirit. Needless to say this left me feeling somehow even worse, which I was not sure was possible after this movie ripped my soul out of my butthole Fuckin’ a. Ellen Burstyn was robbed by the academy
Best scene of a great film
During Ellen Burstyn's impassioned monologue about how it feels to be old, cinematographer Matthew Libatique accidentally let the camera drift off-target. When director Darren Aronofsky called "cut" and confronted him about it, he realized the reason Libatique had let the camera drift was because he had been crying during the take and fogged up the camera's eyepiece.
Him keep saying "for Christ's sake" is actually annoying lol
Eh can you blame him?
I'm curious how Aronofsky directed Burstyn. I think he just told her, your goal for this scene is to smile big for Harry.
The truth is that most ppl cannot stand the thought of being unimportant. This movie is not only about addiction. Selfdelusion, lack of selfinsight.
I cried
Wish the scene after this was left in. Harry breaking down in the cab and then shooting up and looking like an absolute zombie
sarah i relate to you so much. i love you
Im 25 and already feels like this, been on “uppers” for 3 years now just to feel something
What kind of uppers? Adderall?
Only 3 years? Child's play. Lol jk. But ive been takin em for 10 years, although they've never been my drug of choice so ive taken 6-9 month breaks and been totally fine
@@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 see and I thought in these 3 years I’ve done irreversible damage to my body but u seem to being doing well..hmmm.. Lol I’ve recently kicked the habit, it’s been a month I’ve never been so sleepy/ tired in my goddang life I hope “being healthy” is worth it lol
@@juanita_piju being healthy IS worth it man. For context I used to be a heroin/fent/xanax addict and very bad one too. As long as i never touch those 3 again, a little adderall here and there never did me wrong!
@@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 I see, I appreciate the honesty, hope the new year brings good blessings 🤗
“I’m sorry for being such a bastard. I want to make it up. I mean, I know I can’t change anything that’s happened, but I want you to know that I love you and I’m sorry.” There are so many people I’ve wanted to say this to. This movie just took the words straight out of my mouth.
visit your grandparents kids. give them chores.
Word?
Assuming that everybody gets along with their relatives. If people stop visiting there are good reasons.
@@DeltaPi314 If its not because they dont get along, its because they have lives
Just an impossible scene to watch, it hurts so much
Burstyn gives masterclass here.
Despite how much of a weirdo Jared Leto is, his performance in this movie was incredible. Ellen Burstyn was amazing, too.
She should have won an oscar for this role! Its a crime she didn't.
The ONLY thing this movie got wrong about addiction is that heroin pinpoints your pupils, it does not dilate them. Outside of that tiny issue, this movie depicts the feelings involved with addiction better than other any movie I have ever seen by a long shot.
i cried so hard. and i rarely do that. wow
Aw man... I can't even finish this
The most effective part for me.
Definitely, it’s extremely realistic
I think the saddest part of this is that Harry tries to talk her out of her diet pills, and then gives up when she tells him about the Red Dress. If you're already on your way down, you can tell somebody at the top not to slip, but there's nothing you can do for someone who's sliding down right next to you, headed to the same rock-bottom you are.
I only need my kids to see 2 films: "Full Metal Jacket", to keep them out of endless wars of choice, and this one, to keep them away from drugs.
I wish this included the scene afterwards w/ Harry in the cab clearly distraught about his mother's addiction & immediately numbs himself out by getting high.
It’s so sad that yet Harry knew about his moms addiction and how lonely she felt, he still didn’t stay and help.
Because he was suffering from his own addiction. After this scene he goes in the car and cries, and then does heroine to distract himself. He was definitely affected by his mother’s sadness
How Ellen Burstyn didn't win the Academy Award for Best Actress for this movie over Julia Robert's Erin Brockovich was total bullshit and Highway robbery ! This scene always made me cry 😢 😭💔 ‼️
Betty Davis would bow to Ellen. Glenn who? Bette is a vaudeville act in comparison. Julia Roberts? What a slap in the face. This is the standard throughout the history and future of film. How much did Julia's people pay for that Oscar?
all of them had it bad omg i h8 this movie
She is amazing in this scene. Truly tragic.
Burstyn’s performance is not only the best performance from 2000, it may be the best ever. But I can partially forgive the Academy because I feel a lot better watching Julia Roberts save people as Erin Brockovich than watching Ellen Burstyn rip my heart out and fall apart as Sarah Goldfarb.
Oh,ma!!!!
Ellen Burstyn performance was the saddest of all these stories. You can feel her pain and loneliness
The fact that Ellen Burstyn didn't win the Oscar proves to me that it's rigged 😒...she is a revelation in this. DEVASTATING