Requiem for a Dream
Movie • 2000 • Crime
ReportThe hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
This movie contains 61 potentially triggering events.
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Abandonment
Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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K1234
Harry suddenly goes on a trip out of state to try to find more heroin. His girlfriend Marion is left behind alone to take care of herself during her heroin withdrawel. This forces her to sell her body for money and drugs.
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Abuse
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TaylorMoon
Not at all. There's some minor gaslighting and Yelling/frustration at most.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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K1234
Yes. Towards the end of the film Marion is forced to perform painfull groupsex by her pimp.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Katekaller
At the beginning of the movie a son gaslights his mother to sell her tv
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Addiction
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Anonymous
Drugs are a major theme in this movie.
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Is there addiction?
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BlancheDuBois
All of the main characters suffer from drug use. The mother gets locked in a psych ward after taking diet pills. The son ends up with an infected arm from injecting heroin. Another character resorts to sex work to buy drugs.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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mostly all
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Animal
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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sbtuarry
well for one there's lots of drug use, but when an older woman gets sent to a mental hospital she gets something injected into her
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Is someone held under water?
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sbtuarry
no but a character is shown with her head under the bath water for a lengthy amount of time
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Is someone restrained?
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frootsnak
During the mental institution scene other commenters have mentioned
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roseswiththorns
Regarding the other comment, that’s not true consent. Coercion and being forced to do something for one’s survival is not. consensual. That’s sexual abuse. That’s rape. If you think that’s actually consensual, that’s horrifying.
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It doesn't show the whole thing, but it does imply that she was forced into sex coercively.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Rainyfool
Graphic arm (very quick) arm amputation.
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Are any hands damaged?
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yeah so not cool wasnt expecting that
marion imagines stabbing a fork thru someones hand, pretty gross tbh
only lasts like 3 seconds tho
did make me pause and take a deep breath LMAO
arnd 58 min mark
marion imagines stabbing a fork thru someones hand, pretty gross tbh
only lasts like 3 seconds tho
did make me pause and take a deep breath LMAO
arnd 58 min mark
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Katekaller
In the mental institution scene, the characters nose is held while force fed
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Is there body horror?
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KnightWhoSaysNi
*Spoiler*
I'm not sure if this counts, but a character has a serious arm infection that is shown multiple times.
I'm not sure if this counts, but a character has a serious arm infection that is shown multiple times.
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Is there amputation?
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Towards the end of the movie, a character has part of an arm amputated. It’s a quick scene but still very graphic and disturbing.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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K1234
There is a lot of heavy druguse in this movie, that in some way or another leave people unconcious multiple times.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Katekaller
An arm is amputated
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Is someone tortured?
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Towards the end of the movie, a character is checked into a mental institution and undergoes electroshock therapy, force feeding, etc. It’s very disturbing and intense to watch.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Rainyfool
Only a dream of falling
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does a major character die?
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KnightWhoSaysNi
*Spoiler*
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According to the director the main characters all survive, but it's depicted an an ambiguous enough way that he needed to clarify that.
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According to the director the main characters all survive, but it's depicted an an ambiguous enough way that he needed to clarify that.
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Disability
Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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By the end of the movie, Harry has one arm, but he's played by Jared Leto, who has two arms.
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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K1234
One of the main characters develops amphetamine psychosis and is seen becoming uncouncious multiple times. Other results of heavy drug-use are also depicted. No one dies tho.
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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Rainyfool
A father is talked about being passed away. The mother however does go through many heartbreaking and disturbing circumstances including force feeding and electro-shock therapy.
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Does someone cheat?
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TaylorMoon
No cheating. It is consentually understood beforehand however it's survival sex and not really consentual in the grander sense of things for anyone.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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KnightWhoSaysNi
No, but a woman has some ghost-like hallucinations.
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Are there jump scares?
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TaylorMoon
The 'chapters' come on very loud as the labels drop on screen. Lots of sudden volume jumps because of the cinematography style, but not really traditional jump scares.
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Is there a shower scene?
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TaylorMoon
Underwater bath scene. She screams underwater and floats under as though maybe dead
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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KnightWhoSaysNi
Yes, close to the end.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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TaylorMoon
Twice. Once as Marion leaves the elevator to exit the apartment, after sleeping with the creepy bald dude. And at the end there's a chaotic mash up of scenes of all characters * SPOILERS AHEAD:
in the scene where Marion is in the orgy, and then it shows Harry in the hospital and Tyrone mashing potatoes, it flashes through them faster and faster and eventually we briefly see some shots of Tyrone being sick in jail.
in the scene where Marion is in the orgy, and then it shows Harry in the hospital and Tyrone mashing potatoes, it flashes through them faster and faster and eventually we briefly see some shots of Tyrone being sick in jail.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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KnightWhoSaysNi
The movie came out before 9/11.
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Law Enforcement
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Is there incarceration?
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K1234
Yes. Two of the main characters are incarcerated due to their drug use. The law inforcement people in this situation are not very kind, especially not to the black guy.
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Circuitscars
It's really brutal and seriously messed me up. I wish I had known before seeing this movie. Don't watch if you're afraid of this specific thing or of mentally ill people being abused.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Anonymous
Frequent, graphic images of intervenous drug use and it's negative after-effects.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Abbeyuh
One of the characters gets trapped in a mental institution where they are abused by the staff, and we are left to assume that they are stuck there forever.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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a lot of the second half takes place in a hospital
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Mental Health
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Drug use
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K1234
One of the main characters develops amphetamine pshychosis. She is later committed to a hospital where she enters a catatonic state of dissociation.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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K1234
The effects of heavy druguse and overdose are shown from the perspective of the users.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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DeDoDoDeDaDa
The movie showcases different people hitting rock bottom because of their addictions, and I suppose that the concept of having a meltdown could be applied to all of them. But the mother in particular seems to really lose her sanity.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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K1234
One of the main characters is completly obsessed with fitting into her favorite red dress and looking good for TV. Which causes her to lose all touch with reality.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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TaylorMoon
They hangout under some bleachers or a deck or something at one point that's kinda low and closed. Restraints in mental hospital are used.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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TaylorMoon
Dieting attempts followed by diet pills and complete cessation of eating.
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TaylorMoon
No suicide. Just poor coping and apathy for life.
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Noxious
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Is there shakey cam?
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sbtuarry
This whole film is trippy with plenty of shaky cam, quick flashes and sounds and such
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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K1234
Not really. But during a psychotic episode we see how one of the main characters believes that she is being watched by the people on TV and/or her refrigerator.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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KnightWhoSaysNi
No, but there's a scene where a character hallucinates people from a TV program interacting with her in a way that may be triggering.
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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TaylorMoon
In the jail at the end of the movie, from guard to tyrone
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Are there fat jokes?
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TaylorMoon
The mother calls herself enormous and says she's got 50 pounds to give away
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Does the black guy die first?
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faxmachine
The black character, Tyrone, is not harmed in the movie. Physically speaking.
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Is there hate speech?
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TaylorMoon
n word in jail towards the very end of the movie, towards Tyrone.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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K1234
Marion, a young woman, is coerced into having sex with older men.
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Sex
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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KnightWhoSaysNi
*Spoiler* A character engages in survival sex and does a sexual act in front of a large group of men. She is visibly distressed by it.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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JimmyP
There is some very explicit sex towards the end of the film.
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Is there BDSM?
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DeDoDoDeDaDa
No BDSM. But, at the end of the movie, some women are put in a very degrading and sexually objectifying situation, in a scene that is very explicit.
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Ellen Burstyn as Sara actually does wear fat materials to portray various body sizes her character passes through.
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Is someone homeless?
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K1234
No, but it is implied that the main characters will become homeless if they don't get money soon.
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Anonymous
This is not a happy movie in any way.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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TaylorMoon
Bath scene where she stays long, motionless underwater and finally screams
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Is there gun violence?
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TaylorMoon
Graphic shooting in the car with the drug dealer, and again in the grocery store back area to get the expensive xmas heroine
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