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  • The interesting is that her son warned her when he was still lucid.

    She should've listened to her son

  • ms. burrstyn did more in this scene then julia roberts has done in her whole career,, what a shame she didnt win.

  • God Dammit... I can't believe this woman lost that academy award to Julia Roberts... this is fucking unfair!

  • You can notice that at the end of the scene, you see Sara at the far right. When Aronofsky was rolling this scene, he scolded the cameraman because she was not in the center: The cameraman just couldn't stand crying and couldn't move the camera at time. At the end, Aronofsky printed the scene like that.

  • She looks like Mrs. Roper from 'Three's Company.'

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  • @snoppkatarr med lite extra adhd

  • was she really going to be on tv, but then just fucked it when she started popping pills?

  • @pyro2393 She did receive a "mailing" from the Infomercial. I think it was bullshit, just to get her to buy the "juice". I don't think the "producers" of the show ever intended anyone to be on their show.

  • @pyro2393

    I'm pretty sure she was, she got a thing from the show asking her if she wanted too

  • this was by far the most depressing movie I have seen in years. dear god.

  • is that main character Jared Leto? :O

  • @slugman125

    Fuck YEAH!

  • @slugman125 yesss!!!!!!! <3333

  • I read on IMDB that when the camera goes off focus, it was because the camera man was crying. Even the crew was in tears when this movie was being made.

  • What can you do when your mother is in this situation and it's breaking you down

  • </3

  • Two biggest robberies in Oscar history: 1955-Judy Garland-A Star is Born...2001-Ellen Burstyn-Requiem For a Dream...Julia Roberts is more overrated then Lady Gaga.

  • how on earth did ellen burstyn not win this ocsar. phenominal acting.

  • A stolen oscar, the worst oscar ever, julia roberts c'mon!!!!!!!!

  • Ass to ass.

  • @theunraveler Just because you have seen stupid people misuse something they had little to no knowledge on doesn't mean it is bad. That won't happen to me because I take mushrooms only once every couple of months. From what you described it sounds like those people take large doses of whatever drug when they aren't even familiar with it. Don't group drug users just because the majority is stupid.

  • I still cry whenever I watch this. Such a poignant and amazing film.

  • Best scene of the movie...Ellen was amazing. It gave me chills, I feel so bad for her...

  • Yeah, Ellen should have definitely got the award, but at least everyone can have peace of mind knowing she was the best regardless of an award or not. Can't take that away.

  • @CMloveify well said

  • My sister had never seen this before, and she watched it alone in her room at night and the fridge part freaked her out, lol.

  • im sorry but this movie is too much for me... unless im fucked up. but its undeniably well made

  • This scene kills me every time. If I were to show to it to my moms, it would kill her too.

  • So... Fucking... Heartbreaking.

  • THIS SCENE ALWAYS MAKES ME CRY THE WHOLE MOVIE WAS VERY MIND BLOWING AND ELLEN BURSTYN WAS ROBBED WHAT BULLSHIT THAT JULIA ROBERTS GOT THIS AWARD FOR ERIN BROKIVICH!

  • THIS SCENE ALWAYS MAKES ME CY THE WHOLE MOVIE WAS VERY MIND BLOWING AND ELLEN BURSTYN WAS ROBBED WHAT BULLSHIT THAT JULIA ROBERTS GOT THIS AWARD FOR ERIN BROKIVICH

  • A story of a clown .. like requiem for a dream .. I never saw a video so sad as this .. where? On My Channel! Sub if you like it! ..

  • I have a single mother who raised me and did the best she could to provide for me. Now that I moved out to attend university, I couldn't help but to feel guilty that now she is living alone with no one by her side to care for her and make her feel appreciated every day. This scene is a huge wake up call for me and anyone else to just pause your daily routines and take a minute to do your best to show love and appreciation to your family and loved ones.

  • @tony920226 fuck you man, you made me cry

  • @tony920226 dude i almost cried

  • she is an Actress.

    without her the movie would have been just another bloody film about drugs.

  • @ggmfyb She deserved that Academy Award

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  • no comment.life is really hard it s not that simple like stay off drugs

  • hahahaha, this is why I only stick with Weed...all that other stuff, no thank you!!!

  • @promathia1 What about magic mushies.. don't forget those

  • @buttshex

    And cocaine! Cocaine ain't too bad either.

    MARIHUANA: A GATEWAY DRUG

  • @Subartimaeus

    Alcohol: a gateway drug.

    Nicotine: a gateway drug.

    Caffeine: a gateway drug.

  • @hatemagick Lolwut. Aside from the fact that the whole "gateway drug" theory is bullshit, I've been drinking coffee for as long as I can remember and I've never once considered shooting up heroin or snorting cocaine.

  • Her whole story broke my heart!

  • Be right back, calling mummy! :(

  • She doesn't look mad at all. And THAT is dramatic.

  • I'm really feeling this. Having a hard time finding a reason to smile and get up in the morning. It's so important that somebody said this.

  • This scene breaks my heart. I cry everytime.

  • This scene gets me all choked up.

  • Spectacular performance!

  • she deserves an Oscar

  • @maczupikaczu she was up for an Oscar for this and lost to Julia Roberts! Worst Oscar mistake ever!

  • that women is my mom and it made me like him :(

    

  • Now i think twice before taking a tablet of disprin

  • this is as good as acting gets

  • powerful scene.

  • This was sad

  • dude i watched this yesterday after a big bender... i think im depressed lol

  • 6 people can't fit in a red dress

  • @leujo2k I see you using an ancient faggot technique!

  • @Kashadooo what is that supposed to mean?

    I'm just saying 6 people can't recognize a good scene or a good performance.

  • 1.28 - 2.00 hit me really hard, i usually dont call my family when im away working in the mines and one day after work i watched this movie , this part made me feel like a scumbag never calling them .but yeah thats def what my mum feels as well so really hits me hard. i watch this part all the time to remind me not to be selfish and pick up the phone

  • DAMN....now thats good acting!

  • this is the movie i'm showing my kids so they stay off drugs

  • @bf2hero it's worked on me so far, depending on if you mean all drugs or just "bad" drugs.

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  • @TheOrangeCrayon132 What about the ones which aren't really what you think of when you hear the word "drug" (e.g. caffiene, thc)?

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  • @TheOrangeCrayon132 Yeah, it's what gives cannabis its psychoactive properties.

  • @TheOrangeCrayon132 Marijuana is the shizz. shut the fuck up loser.

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  • @TheOrangeCrayon132 You meant to say that it's your opinion influenced by brainwashing. That's one of the down sides of having Conservative parents. Don't even try to pull some BS on me saying that it is your own opinion. You get the idea of all NARCOTICS being bad because someone told you they were. It's either your health teacher, family or friends. You gotta' pick at least one.

  • @buttshex Drugs ARE bad tough guy, I've seen enough crazy men with minds addled by drugs to do crazy things to know that it is bad personally. Believe it or not, up to you...maybe you will believe what I say when you start feeding your face to dog as a result of a bad trip

  • @bf2hero it will surely prove effective

  • @bf2hero A movie isn't going to keep your kids off drugs. People fall into the world of drugs for a reason. Ugh, it's sad that people like you don't understand these types of things in the slightest.

  • @buttshex

    ^ internet hero

  • @buttshex i'm so disappointed that everyone thinks this movie is about "DONT TAKE DRUGS"

  • @phatandddrfreak exactly, it drives me insane... Both the book and the movie are about addiction, not drugs. Addiction to multiple things, an ideal, food, happiness. Though 3 of the characters are addicted to drugs, the movie is not about those drugs... It's about the addiction...

  • @bf2hero didnt work for me.. but i have never touched a needle because of it.. and i think thats rock bottom...once the needle goes in thats it for you

  • In a mid life crisis people just bitch and bitch but this was heavily constructed

  • This movie is an eyeopener. It made me think about me being an asshole to my mom(I'm still living with my parents) SO children like me should love our parents!! especially our mom whom sacrificed all their times in home for the sake of their family.kudos!!

  • Julia Roberts won the Oscar that year for Erin Broch. What a fvcking joke! Ellen was robbed! Amazing performance she did!

  • well it made me quite sad until the part when he said " i'll come and visit ma' " that's when i rofld

  • This is one of the few movies that have ever made me cry. This movie just gets to me every time, very sad but amazing.

  • I just heard about this movie today...so I decided to look up a scene to see if I was interested...and I stumbled upon this. I'm in tears.

  • We got a Winner

  • And some people think they have problems...

  • How the hell did she not win that oscar? This has got to be one of themost powerful performances I've ever seen.

  • this scene was hopeful... but i knew this wouldn't end well. its very very very sad.

  • One of the greatest scenes i know in the cinema

  • she was such an amazing actor! really the whole crew..well to keep it short this whole movie wass BAAAMMB! i didnt know what the whole hoopla was about but i definalty know now. brilliant piece of art

  • 0:25 Jared is great. I love him. <3

    When I watch this scene again and again, I cry. Very good 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. This was the take used in the final print.

  • the academy award goes to helen burstyn for best actres what a wonderful job she did beter than julia roberts

  • helen she deserves the academy award for her acting she was much beter julia roberts helen myn respects for u in this film u won an oscar for me

  • "Im ollllllllllldddddd" hahahahahaah

  • This metaphorical red dress is what is wrong with American Capitalism.

  • Me and my friend definitely did this scene for our theatre arts project. This is the most gripping, emotional and shocking movies I have ever seen. I feel so bad for all of the characters whenever I watch this. Beautiful.

  • The saddest part of this movie is probably when you start to realize that she really believes she'll be on TV, even though it's clear, she will not be, and she destroys herself because she's so sure of it

  • This i a standard! This is what people generally call acting. This is what it looks and feels like . Aristotle would use this as an example. thank you Ellen Burstyn!

  • No matter how offbeat his movies are, Darren Aronofsky is a true actor's director!! Cases in point: this, The Wrestler, and Black Swan (according to critics everywhere).

  • One of the most shocking depressive movies I've ever saw.

  • Labai ,labai... 

  • A very depressing scene. It is a hard feeling to think your all alone. We are all on this journey we call life together. So spread the love and happiness around cus it makes the daily struggle worth while.

  • 4 ppl took downers while watching this video...

  • What a wonderful woman, shes beautiful. She makes me cry, I wish I could help her

  • ellen burstyn is one of the greats.

  • this is the only movie that has ever made me cry.

  • Does anyone know the guys name?? A good vid! =)

  • @lennamanrow

    Jared Leto,or something like that. he's the lead singer in the band "30 Seconds to Mars".

  • @lennamanrow Jared Leto :)

  • this movie... i cant really explain... i just love it, its so hard and... so human at the same time... the actors were just brilliant, and the ending... puff... i cried like never before with a movie...

  • Man she should have won over Julia Roberts. She is flawless.

  • Ellen merecia el Oscar mas que Julia Roberts.

  • Ellyn Bursyn's performance in this movie is incredible. She's an amazingly convincing actress. This scene was one of the best in the whole movie.

  • Being someone that has struggled with drug addiction, this movie really is down to earth. It shows the real side of being addicted and how it fucks up everything, and that's why I love it. This movie relates to me on a level no other movie will.

  • i gotta call my mom

  • Like this comment if you are crying right now after watching this scene. I know I am.

  • The more I watch this scene, the more I compare Burstyn's performance and Ledgers depiction of the Joker.

  • @ecopsher I know she should have WON the Oscar its a joke that Julia Roberts beat her out.

  • I go through the exact same thing with my mum sometimes, when you want her to be happy but not get annoyed, my mum looks a lot like her aswell. The part after this is the best when he starts crying... made me cry last time I saw it.

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  • im a recovering addict/alchoholic and ive been thru some really tough shit and this movie is such a good depiction of what people go thru on a day to day basis. its not just hollywood re creating some made up story this shit is real and it happens to people every day. its sad man, it really is.

  • Gonna reenact this scene in a matter of hours. Gonna try hard as hell not to mess it up

  • im gonna be on television! lol shouldnt laugh though its sad

  • This scene made me cry so hard, when I first watched it.

  • great acting

  • such a sad movie

  • im gonna be on television!

  • my moms like this

    the part right after this when he gets in the car & starts crying made me cry cuz i could relate so much :(

  • i know women like that, it's freakin sad

  • This is the most important scene in the movie because it shows that the son's drug addiction wasn't the only problem in the movie. There are a lot of parents (not just mothers, parents in general) that get hooked on the media that gets beamed into their heads. And when someone is as depressed as her, it's their source of escape from their reality. Kids are being ignored, and parents aren't showing true love.

  • can you please put up the part right before this when he first comes in the cab?=D

  • This movie is great. It combined up and coming talent like Jeniffer Connelly and Jared Leto with one of the previous generation's best, Ellyn Burstyn.

    Ellyn should have won the oscar, even though she already has one. We begin watching thinking "oh, some guy and his friends...and his mom...", and we come out feeling depressed as we are unable to help any of them, including the innocent mother.

  • this movie makes me cry

  • the depiction of , at first, a manic depresive individual and, latter, a psychotic one, is almost perfect from Elen Burstyn. This scene is just a masterpiece, with the woman breaking down for the first time, and her son seeing her mother in such a pathetic state, realizing everything -including his mother and him- feels so wrong. It is also the last time they see eachother, before the colapse.

  • you retards! ahaha wake up guys. The refined , subtle and stylish dialogues you r searching for, bear no relation with the reality of simple people like these. Simple people talk like that, melodramatic etc, perhaps even more, especially when they are one step from the psychiatric clinic like the character of Ellen Burstyn in this film. It is clear you are suffering from elitism, expecting from films only thoughtfull and novel reactions. Finally you are missing the point.

  • Not all parents are disconnected from their children...

    Everyone has a breaking point and a lonely person who feels they arent living will get depressed and find solace any way possible.

  • this scene was so heartbreaking it makes me wish every time i could help her. i know she's a character but her performance is so moving i just can't help it.

  • everybody wants to be on T.V., its the place to solve problems...a quick make over and scripted story and you'll be sunshine under those famous lights.

    -MikeAlike

  • Damn this is depressing......... :(

  • that was the best anti drug movie i`ve ever seen

    5*

    greez from austria

  • wbahahahah your horrible :)

  • This movie was amazing. I don't know any movie that has impacted me like this one. There aren't really words to explain how awesome it is. Jared Leto did a great job and so did all the other actors. The score was great and the whole entire movie was moving and realistic.

  • Wonderful. Best movie ever.

  • This scene alone is worth the entire movie; it gives away the desperation and loneliness Sara (Ellen Burstyn) was going thru. They say that she got so into character on it that she even made the Director of Photography cry.

  • @thedrmat

    When lamenting about being old, she made him cry, and he accidentally shifted the camera. This was used in the final cut of the film, in place of the originally intended still shot.

  • at what moment?

  • my vote for most moving scene in cinema history

  • This scene makes me cry every single time. She is possibly the saddest, and one of my favorite, characters. The whole time you watch the movie you really want it to work for her.

  • she lives in her illusion, so sad...

  • @mysweetrequiem Yeah it's extremely sad what happens to her. I think I shed a tear when she went to the tv station.

  • @mysweetrequiem I felt the same way. I kind of felt like she was my mother and I wanted her to be okay in the end.

  • @mysweetrequiem Ellen Burnstyn (Sara Goldfarb) receieved an Oscar nomination for this. I think she plays a great role and should go home withe that statue!

  • @mysweetrequiem

    I really couldn't realate. I just wanted her to die already..

  • This movie is realistic. Different from typical 'Hollywood movies'. In that kind of movies people wear to much make-up and look perfect. This movie makes you see how fucked up life can be as an addict. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen.

  • I don't think that realistic is the right word. Just because you are addicted to a drug doesn't mean you'll end up like the characters end up in the movie. But that doesn't make the movie irrelevant. Not at all. This shows what happens when you are not cautious enough about drugs. The idea is not that drug is evil. The idea is that being addicted brings you to be incapable of taking care of yourself. Being irresponsable is the danger.

  • I do think that's the right word, because realistic doesn't mean that it's the only option. And this shows the depressing side of drugs, in a realistic way. Ofcourse it can end different.

  • The movie illustrates the triumph of addiction over the human spirit. You wont end up EXACTLY like the characters, but the nature of addiction is that it sucks all else it into its ravenous jaws. The drug isn't evil, but it's certainly the catalyst for swallowing up life - and the truth is no one can really handle it (even when they think they can). The hardcore drugs are anti-life. You'll always be on the verge of the precipice, even if you fool yourself into believing youre not....

  • Awesome acting in this movie! seems almost real

  • Ellen Burstyn is most of why this movie is my absolute favorite, hands down. It's depressing as hell, but it's SO.DAMN.GOOD. I get something new out of it every time I watch it. :)

  • brilliant scene !

  • this scene really make my fucking tears fall!

  • amazing actress.... a very powerful scene.

  • This film is so deeply depressing, and amazing at the same time.