What movies contain the song Requiem for a Dream?

Answer 1

Requiem For a Dream is a movie about drug addiction and how drugs effect 4 people, three of which are addicted to illegal drugs and one addicted to diet pills.

The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connolly and Marlon Wayans.

I'm 16 years old and I bought it just after my 16th birthday from Amazon. I would have got it from HMV but they didn't seem to have it at the time. I first properly looked up this film when I heard a piece of music playing on the trailer for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Virgin 1. This track I found on the internet by simply typing in "track on Virgin 1 Sarah Connor Chronicles trailer" (well along those lines). It was "Lux Aeterna". I didn't immediatly find out where it was from as I was more interested in finding a website where I could listen to the track and possible download that where it came from. After I listened to it again I found out what movie it was from and I remembered it was one I had heard of before in personal movie research a few years before. This got me interested and I spend a few days looking everything up about it, every single detail. Eventually I bought it and my quest was complete. The only thing I needed to do was watch it and so I did.

By the end I was shocked, I felt dizzy, sick and petrified. I didn't want the movie to stop as it had terrific acting, an adapted screenplay, music and directing but yet I wanted to escape from the scary realistic portrayal of drug addiction. For the rest of the day I was in shock, I wasn't speaking, my eyes weren't moving off the empty space on the wall. I told my parents about it of course and that they had to see it. The next week I sat down with them and me, my mom and dad watched it after my sister had gone to bed.

By the end they were almost as shocked as I was, if not as shocked. They loved it but were scared of the realism and the last frightening fifteen minutes. The movie stuck with me as much as 28 Days Later did when I watched that for the first time a year and a bit before. As I am huge movie fan and love every and any movie genre my parents knew they could trust me watching it by myself for the first time and not letting them watch it to "see what it's like". They know I can handle mostly any movie that is disturbing, violent, gory, graphic and depressing.

For the next couple of months the movie stuck with me like 28DL did. It still does. Before I watched 28 Days Later I never would have thought when I was alone in my house that a zombie/infected would jump through my lounge window while I'm watching TV. Never before I watched Requiem for a Dream had I ever cared for my friends who I knew had most likely tried drugs, but never got addicted. I never have tried any, not because of the film but now I definatly won't. The only drug I was addicted to was coffee for about two days and after I had one coffee I needed another "fix" and drank more and more until I stopped suddenly realising that what I was experiencing even though very strong to me, was mild--- very mild compared to what people on drugs would be like.

It's now almost if not nine months since I first saw the film back in very early June 2009. I am now planning on getting the book when I get more money and decide to finally get it out of the way and buy it instead of constantly adding more DVDs to my 300-400 collection of films ranging from Calamity Jane and Enchanted to The Exorcist and The Godfather. In 10 years time I reckon I will have twice as many and most likely have no more films to collect, just ones that have been on at the cinema and never-ending sequels.

What was one of the things that suprised me about this film, not the film itself but the effect it had on my parents. My dad likes to re-watch good films once in a while so it was no suprise when he said "I'd like to watch Requiem for a Dream again" but it was a major suprise when my mom said it. She doesn't really agree with me watching films like this but she knows I can cope and we both know and she's even admitted it that she's just trying to be a protective mom which I thank her for and then tell her that she doesn't need to worry about what films I watch. She doesn't like films like The Exorcist or The Descent or any Horror film from any horror genre but she said she would like to see this again. For her to say that about this particular film is like the nicest person on the planet wanting to watch a video nasty for the first time.

I only know a few people who have watched this film as it's a film that most film-fans would have probably heard of but never gotten round to watching it and a film that just normal average film fans wouldn't have heard of and would more likely think the remake of The Crazies is an original film that it actually being a remake of the under-rated, now cult classic 70s original. One woman, who is actually someone I see more often (on average at least once a month or two) than other people I know is the mother of my sisters best friend and my mothers best friend and she said she's seen it and it made her feel sick and feels sick anytime, every time she thinks about it. I told her that in the movie industry and is excellent, that is what they want, they wouldn't care if she was literally sick every time she thought of the film because for a film to have an affect on people like that is what every film maker wants. She was kind of awkwardly re-assured by that.

But one of the things about this film is that it sticks with you and will stay with people who you know after you get them to watch the film. The film itself is an addiction as people become addicted by remebering it and not forgetting about it like some stupid horror film from the mid 90s. And one of the main things I love about this film is that its unintentionary educational, meaning it teaches everyone, anybody, every single soul who sees it that this is what will happen if you take drugs. This is also a film that even though in America in it's original un-cut version it's an NC-17 in the UK and Ireland an 18 this is a film that if they showed in schools, even though it would be illegal it should be made legal that no matter what late middler schoolers/early Secondary schoolers and high schoolers/secondary schoolers should watch this film because if they watch this, no matter if they think it's rubbish or generally thought-provoking or even life changing then drug taking in young children will decrese rapidly.

So if your looking for a film that's entertaining and educational maybe for you and even your own children or friends then this is the film. Some people will argue that Trainspotting would do the job but I'm going to have to disagree because Trainspotting is more of a black-comedy drug related drama film than this dark, very mildly comic, depressing and scary film is.

Requiem for a Dream IS the film that could literally change every Humans' lives and their views on the world and theirself.

I decided to write this after seeing "Shinach"'s previous review on the film and how it effected him badly like all of us. And just to let you know, after I read his review I've more or less covered what he's said and I'm sure he would truly agree on what I've said so your not missing anything out from that.

So, using words and a final sentence like Shinach said in the previous review/answer on here. I am 16, almost 17 years old that maybe if I was older then it wouldn't have the same effect, but I'm going to have to disagree and agree at the same time because no matter what age you see this film at, at 6 or 60 this film will change your life forever even if you hated it or loved it, there is no escaping with this film from your mind.

Written by Rowan Charlton

Answer 2

Unless you are talking about Wagner's Requem for a dream.. I believe you are referring to the Lux AEterna which is referred to as "The Requiem for a Dream song" because it is.. yep you guessed it.. on the movie "Requiem for a Dream". DU NU DUNA NUNA... it was also used in a million trailers because the song makes anything seem action packed.. Gigli would have looked like an awesome movie with this song on it.. MWilridge ANGEL LIES

Answer 3

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - "A Scanner Darkly" - "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" - et.al.