Who is arnold requiem for a dream

Marion Jennifer Connelly is compulsively drawn to heroin, but, when she and her boyfriend run out of their stash and money, she is prompted to extreme measures like selling herself. Her psychiatrist, Arnold, meets her at a dinner and then engages in intercourse with her despite her discomfort.

The role is pretty small, but it contributes to some of the disturbing elements of the film, as Sean Gullette channels Arnold's glumness as he loudly chews his food on the dinner table. There's something ominous about his mannerisms that foreshadows what he does to Marion later on.

Overall, he succeeds in making the character, smug, and emotionless. As Rae, Marcia Jean Kurtz plays a character who is a know-it-all. As the aging widow Sara Goldfarb harbors hopes to appear in a reality show, she starts following a diet to lessen her body weight. Rae sassily—and probably sarcastically—comments on Sara's dieting while giving her health tips. It's a very believable performance with no ounce of fake melodrama attached to it. Hence, a role like this is suited for the character actor that Kurtz is.

Rae easily acts and appears like a nosy neighbor next door who seems to have an opinion on anything and everything. Tappy Tibbons is an enthusiastic game show host , brimming with the generic charisma and over-the-top bravado of such people in showbiz. Most of his scenes are shown from the lens of Sara Goldfarb's television set. She is hooked to the show with the host's charm and wishes to join him in front of a cheering audience.

Christopher McDonald effortlessly plays the character with his clear oratory and confident personality, adding some 'scripted realism' to his part. He easily seems like a man who is very well-acquainted with the spotlight. The film, in fact, ends with him warmly welcoming Sara to his show , which turns out to be one of Sara's hallucinations. His performance is indeed a hallucinatory breakaway from the otherwise grounded and gloomy characters in Requiem For A Dream.

Tyrone is one of Harry Goldfarb's Jared Leto friends who usually engages in doing drugs with him. While Marlon Wayans was known for his comedic roles—most notably in the Scary Movie franchise— he pulls off the role of an emotionally-fragile individual.

The role was initially offered to comedian Dave Chappelle , who rejected it. As for Wayans, he had read the original novel three times and auditioned five times before finally bagging the role.

In the start, his character seems pretty stable as he cheerily engages in his addictive habits. But, when the addiction gets overbearing, Tyrone starts getting distant memories of his past as he remembers his younger self cuddled next to his mother. This scene, in particular, is where Marlon Wayans shines.

His tears, his cries for help, and his frustration, all of it seems to be pretty genuine. His desperation grows with time as he engages in crime to buy the self-destructive drugs he's drawn to. Jennifer Connelly doesn't have that many loud monologues as compared to the other major characters in the film.

The lonely and depressed housewife had nothing to live for until a phone call turned her luck around and gave her something to look forward to. Unfortunately, it was all just a fabrication of her mind. She was showing signs of dementia even before she got hooked on 'diet pills.

Things get really bad for her after her time in the psyhicatric hospital when she receives shock therapy. Ellen Burstyn delivered the best performance in Requiem for a Dream.

Sara seemed like a decent woman who dedicated her life to serving her husband and son. When they left, her brain started deteriorating, impacting her intelligence. By the time where the plot picks up in the movie, she's at her wits' end. None of the characters really had a chance to shine, intelligence-wise. As they left the city, he was enthusiastic about the notion of the two going to California and it didn't seem like he knew just how much he had missed the mark.

He soon noticed that Harry's arm was infected, but rather than turning around right away, he joined Harry in his denial that everything is fine. The two ended up in what seemed to be a smaller town, filled with bigots who had no tolerance for two big city guys struggling with addiction.

Harry Goldfarb played fantastically by Jared Leto was a clever young man who instantly put two and two together when he saw his mother's jittery jaw and weight loss. But rather than checking up on her, he just cried for her in the taxi without ever trying to actually do anything to help her. While Harry was an observant son, he failed to see that his arm was badly infected until it was too late. It would be unfair to attribute that to his lack of intelligence, though. He was in complete denial about the increasingly bleak reality of his life and preferred escaping by getting high.

Needless to say, that made the situation even worse. Marion Silver Jennifer Connelly came from a good New York family who was in the wardrobe business and she inherited the family's knack for designing clothes. Of all the main characters, she was the only one who had an interest outside of drugs.

As her dependency on heroin worsened, her passion project fell apart. While Harry and Tyrone were generally pretty naive when it comes to the dark underworld they found themselves in, Marion was in no denial about the reality of things.

While Harry was worrying only where to get the money for the next hit, Marion was already one step ahead.