《Requiem for a Dream》　夢(mèng)之安魂曲　夢(mèng)醒了，我們身在何處

No.057　《Requiem for a Dream》　夢(mèng)之安魂曲　夢(mèng)醒了，我們身在何處

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Requiem for a Dream is a 2000 drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, and Marlon Wayans. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Hubert Selby, Jr., with whom Aronofsky wrote the screenplay.

This gritty drama concerns four people trapped by their addictions. Harry (Jared Leto), and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) are impoverished heroin addicts living in Coney Island, NY, while Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) is a fellow addict trying to distance herself from her wealthy father. Harry dreams of scoring a pound of smack, from which he could make enough money to open a clothing boutique with Marion, but so far he and his friends can barely scrape by supporting their own habits. Meanwhile, Harry's mother Sara (Ellen Burstyn), who spends her days watching television, is told she has the opportunity to appear on her favorite game show; wanting to lose enough weight to fit into her favorite red dress, she visits a sleazy doctor who gives her a prescription for amphetamines. Soon Sara has a drug habit of her own that is spiraling out of control.

Requiem for a Dream was directed by Darren Aronofsky, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Selby; it was Aronofsky's second feature, following his acclaimed independent film Pi.

The majority of reviewers characterized Requiem for a Dream in the genre of "drug movies", along with films like The Basketball Diaries, Trainspotting, Spun, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. However, Aronofsky has said: "Requiem for a Dream is not about heroin or about drugs… The Harry-Tyrone-Marion story is a very traditional heroin story. But putting it side by side with the Sara story, we suddenly say, 'Oh, my God, what is a drug?' The idea that the same inner monologue goes through a person's head when they're trying to quit drugs, as with cigarettes, as when they're trying to not eat food so they can lose 20 pounds, was really fascinating to me. I thought it was an idea that we hadn't seen on film and I wanted to bring it up on the screen. "

The film received a largely positive response from critics, with the film aggregator website, Rotten Tomatoes, giving the film a 78% "Certified Fresh" rating, with the camera work and the individual performances particularly praised. Film critic James Berardinelli considered Requiem for a Dream the second best film of the decade, behind the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Ellen Burstyn was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Sara Goldfarb. She was nominated for several other awards including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.

獲獎(jiǎng)情況

2001年第73屆奧斯卡：最佳女主角提名。

影片信息

導(dǎo)演：達(dá)倫·阿倫諾夫斯基

編?。哼_(dá)倫·阿倫諾夫斯基、小胡伯特·塞爾比

主演：艾倫·鮑斯汀、杰瑞德·萊托、詹妮弗·康納利、馬龍·韋恩斯

類型：劇情

制片國(guó)家（地區(qū)）：美國(guó)

上映日期：2000-10-27（美國(guó)）

片長(zhǎng)：102分鐘、South Korea：100分鐘

又名：《噩夢(mèng)挽歌》《迷上癮》《夢(mèng)的挽歌》

劇情簡(jiǎn)介

哈里·戈德法布（杰瑞德·萊托　飾）和馬里恩·西爾弗（詹妮弗·康納利　飾）是一對(duì)情人，他們生活在布魯克林，有著一個(gè)共同的夢(mèng)想那就是經(jīng)營(yíng)一家服裝店，相親相愛(ài)共度一生。然而現(xiàn)實(shí)中，兩人都是癮君子，無(wú)法抑制的毒癮使他們生活在一片黑暗之中。

哈里的母親薩拉·戈德法布（艾倫·鮑斯汀　飾）是個(gè)電視迷，最大的夢(mèng)想是可以上電視。一天，她幸運(yùn)地接到了她鐘愛(ài)的電視專欄打來(lái)的電話，她被通知選中參加演播，這令她興奮不已。由于她最喜愛(ài)的一件紅色衣服穿不上身，于是她找到醫(yī)生，不顧年邁開(kāi)始吞服減肥藥，藥品里有毒品成分，她漸漸也上了癮。哈里的好朋友蒂龍（馬龍·韋恩斯飾），也是個(gè)吸毒上癮者，為了掙大錢(qián)而加入了黑社會(huì)。為了夢(mèng)想，他們努力著，卻一步步深陷毒品而難以自拔。

哈里的胳膊因注射毒品感染而被割去，馬里恩為了毒品出賣(mài)肉體和自尊，哈里的母親最終住進(jìn)了精神病院受盡折磨，蒂龍鋃鐺入獄。當(dāng)視線變得模糊，夢(mèng)在遙遠(yuǎn)處呼喚，迷失的人該以怎樣的姿態(tài)安撫自己的靈魂？

制作花絮

導(dǎo)演達(dá)倫·阿倫諾夫斯基于1998年推出他的處女作《圓周率》，這部影片以其在藝術(shù)上的大膽探索而聞名于電影界，所以他的第二部作品《夢(mèng)之安魂曲》還未上映就引起了廣泛關(guān)注。電影上映后，立即引起了評(píng)論家們的強(qiáng)烈反響，很多評(píng)論把它列入年度最好影片之列。

整個(gè)故事籠罩在一種悲觀絕望的氣氛中，而演員們的令人信服的表演更使觀眾們仿佛置身于角色的生活之中。但被評(píng)論家稱贊最多的還是扮演母親的艾倫·鮑斯頓。她曾在紅極一時(shí)的恐怖片《驅(qū)魔人》中扮演母親。在《夢(mèng)之安魂曲》中，身著肥大衣服，頭戴蓬亂假發(fā)的她和《驅(qū)魔人》中的形象判若兩人，而她的表演更是充分地表現(xiàn)了角色的內(nèi)心世界，成為本片的一大亮點(diǎn)，以至于評(píng)論界紛紛驚呼：艾倫的才華一直被好萊塢忽視了，她應(yīng)當(dāng)憑著《夢(mèng)之安魂曲》中的角色拿到一尊奧斯卡獎(jiǎng)。

重點(diǎn)學(xué)習(xí)

Wanting to lose enough weight to fit into her favorite red dress

在文中，fit into是“（使）能容納，（使）能裝進(jìn)（某空間、某時(shí)間）”的意思，比如：If I gain any more weight,I shan't be able to fit into my clothes.（假如我的體重繼續(xù)增加，我就穿不進(jìn)我的衣服了。）另外，fit into還有“（使）符合，（使）適合，（使）適應(yīng)（某事物）”的意思，比如：Any new buildings must be fitted into the existing appearance of the city.（任何新建筑都必須與全城的市容協(xié)調(diào)一致。）

The film received a largely positive response from critics

文中的positive是“積極的；正的；確定的，肯定的”的意思，所以positive response是“肯定回應(yīng)；正響應(yīng)”的意思，用于對(duì)某事／某物進(jìn)行肯定的評(píng)價(jià)，比如：Face the truth the only positive response is the best actions.（面對(duì)事實(shí)，唯有積極應(yīng)對(duì)才是上策。）

單詞時(shí)間

addiction[??dik??n] n. 上癮，沉溺；癖嗜

impoverish[im?p?v?ri?] vt. 使貧窮；使枯竭

smack[smæk] n. 滋味；少量；海洛因；風(fēng)味

boutique[bu:?ti:k] n. 精品店；專賣(mài)流行衣服的小商店

scrape[skreip] vi. 刮掉；刮出刺耳聲

sleazy[?sli:zi] adj. 質(zhì)地薄的；[口]骯臟的；低級(jí)庸俗的；破爛的

amphetamine[æm?fet?mi:n] n. [藥]苯丙胺，安非他明（解除憂郁、疲勞的藥）

majority[m??d??riti] n. 多數(shù)；[律]成年

loathe[l?ue] vt. 討厭，厭惡

considered[k?n?sid?d] adj. 經(jīng)過(guò)深思熟慮的；被尊重的