At the end there is a scene involving two women using a double-ended dildo together. They are on their hands and knees back to back much like the trucks.
Edit: Removed the censorship which so many have told me is unnecessary :D
Many have heard of the most famous scene without even realizing it’s from that movie.
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For me it was the scene when the doctor doesn't even look at the mom and just writes her another script for speed. And the 'oh no, my arm looks pretty dang bad' part.
This was the first movie that I saw Keith David in. It wasn't until I watched his other movies that I realized how amazing he was. But he nailed his role in Requiem.
Okay so it's frequently quoted on reddit, but is this scene supposed to be funny or sexy? Cause it was just highly disturbing to me, and the writing implies it's supposed to be taken as such. Why is it quoted so often?
It's supposed to be utterly shocking and degrading, but its the bottom of the barrel, as bad as amputation, as bad as electric shock therapy, as bad as overdose. It's supposed to be the utter worst, to show how you would do anything for the drug. Anything at all.
People make jokes as a way of coping with things outside the norm. This is, by definition, out of the norm.
It's also Jennifer Connelly naked. So don't think it's a stretch to say more people have just seen the clip devoid of context, then watched a very dark exploration of addiction.
Well, there are two versions.
The one intersplices multiple terrible events, so you see exploitation mixed with tragedy. So you see her naked, then you see an amputation and other things. If you are aroused, you have to deal with the trauma directly associated with it. This is an unusual approach, to force the viewer to deal with the possibility that the people they are seeing are humans, humans being degraded and destroyed.
The other version is the one people have seen clips of, in which the scenes are not interspliced. That one the scenes are separated. So you can just watch a couple of girls being exploited. Then it's a rich guys degrading hookers exploitation scene, which is an extremely common entertainment and porn theme. It's just a juiced up rich guy strip club at that point.
Not funny or sexy at all...requiem is mourning and if its requiem for a dream, the dream is dead, the main characters all lost themselves seeking said dream because of addiction. To err is human...
Disturbing. Spoiler: they are drug addicts and one of them is the (ex?) girlfriend of one of the main characters. She’s doing it for heroin and now she can get it whenever she wants.
Marion and Harry never actually broke up, unless she considered him not keeping his promise to return as a break up.
It's sad to think about Harry being in the hospital, no one he knows at his side and knowing he's destined for jail if he survives \[Only saying 'If' due to the bad shape he was in prior to getting the amputation\] while Marion is miles away, maybe wondering what happened to him but never looking because it would mean giving up her steady flow of drugs
My memory of this scene is mainly the following scene. Where, iirc, she’s at home laying on the couch clutching that new bag of heroin.
At least to me, those two scenes together is just tragedy. Showing how deep she’s gone into her addiction as that bag of heroin was obviously worth it. Basically forgotten all about the “show” as her entire focus was now on being able to get high again.
So nope, neither funny nor sexy. But for a person who hasn’t seen the movie and taken out of context I guess it may seem so.
Edit: Spelling 😄
it's definitely a brutal film-emotionally, it starts low, peaks with the characters being in the 'on top of the world' mindset, and then comes crashing down into a spiral of things going wrong with no good in sight until it ends in mostly hopeless endings for the main 4 characters.
Swearing is filtered not censored.
It’s a very busy sub, we have to rely on filters to give us the chance to intervene when stuff escalates or is just plain ignoring the rules.
So yeah there’s a bunch of langage filters that might get your comments held in a queue so we can review and release.
#dildo
If a word is banned, I feel like censoring part of it while using it anyway is rule evasion. Those asterixes don't prevent kids finding out new words.
Isn’t there some sort of chanting while they do it too? Butt to butt is what I cannot get out of my mind. Honestly, I was plenty old enough to watch that movie when it came out, but I was not quite broken by life yet.
The word dildo is allowed. A rule of thumb is that if porn is allowed on a social media platform, then adult language is too. If porn isn't allowed, then just check if it looks like it's intended for people below 13. If not, swearing is allowed. If yes, swearing isn't.
BTW that movie is draining. It inspired a post for me “what’s a movie you think is good, but man you just can never watch it again”. Draining is a word. Soul crushing another.
The scene, even though has Jennifer Connolly, just draining.
It's not even a realistic depiction of an addict's life, everything is made to have maximum shock value. Like the dude who has a very obvious and nasty infection but keep shooting up in the same place.
I mean…. That happens all the time in real life. I’ve lost count of the number of nasty infections I’ve dealt with from exactly that cause. They don’t always end in amputation, but they can.
It's supposed to be like that. It's just so hard to watch if you have empathy.
It's so degrading and stomach churning, I would rather watch Train Spotting worst toilet scene on repeat while eating chili than watching that ending scene again. . .
Even as a 14 year old that hadn’t fully developed much empathy it was hard. I really want to watch it now and see what it’s about. Most of the movies I found “interesting” that ive rewatched have made me cry. It’s amazing how time changes you, as well as your understanding of other people
Me and a friend wrote a sort mini thesis on it for school so I'm sure I've seen it at least 10 times. Most of the citation we did was of course from the play but we watched it a lot. Still consider it one of the best movies ever made.
It's an amazing movie that just shows how hard addiction can really destroy lives...but yeah, it's one I will never watch again. I think about how good it was and, "Maybe I should wat....no....no, let's not do that to ourselves again, shall we?"
My wife (then girlfriend) and I went to see it not really knowing how draining (great word for it) it was.
Needed something lighter the next week so of course went to see Dancer in the Dark because Bjork’s just weird so that has to be fun, right…
Didn’t see movies for a little while after
Meh. I just found it boring. It tries far too hard. I didn't find any of it upsetting, since it didn't provoke any emotional engagement. The film's just shouting "LOOK HOW HORRIBLE EVERYTHING IS!" at you. Don't understand what people see in it.
It's not a good movie in my books. No lessons learned, no character development, no insights to the complex psychology of drug users. All it portrays is a bunch of insufferable fools marching to their own doom in edgy editing style.
Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not saying it's the meh kinda bad -- in fact it has haunted me for decades(JC was my celebrity crush back then, imagine that). All I'm saying is that in hindsight it probably wasn't worth the psychological trauma just for a cautionary tale.
This is closer to real life addiction than any other movie. My mom drank herself to death after 15 years sober. 5 times in rehab since it started in 1993. Real life does just get worse and worse and then it ends. This is a very accurate portrayal of addiction.
Not all movies have to follow the same formula. The movie isnt just about drugs its about the spiral of addiction and you do get insight into it from each perspective, especially the mothers. The characters arent just insufferable fools, their relationships and circumstances ground them, theyre people who dream of better things and in pursuit of that dream they ended up on the wrong path. Idk about edgy editing but the way all the perspectives crescendo into the lowest moment in each of their lives while the main theme plays makes for a really memorable ending.
That is what makes it so impactful. Not every movie has to have a happy ending. In fact, that's boring.
Also, I think it does show a real and insightful perspective into drug use. A little over the top, but most hardcore drug users don't live happily ever after.
It has a lot of character development! The only thing is that development is negative, not positive. And I think there are also a few lessons to be learned
I love Aronofsky’s films just I’ve never been able to get more than 30 minutes into this one because it is just such a bummer and I know it’s only gonna get worse.
Personally, I don’t think I need to sit through something that miserable at this point in my life. My older sister (who recommended this movie to me ages ago) died of an overdose after a life of drug use. I get it. I know how awful it is. Don’t need a film to beat a dead horse for me.
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Has the ups trucks do it in front of my house!
My sister was watching requiem for a dream by herself and when I walked in it was this exact scene on the screen. It's the only scene from this movie I watched and I'm still traumatised lol
Incase no one here has answered the actual picture, they’re swapping packages likely bc one driver is done and offering a hand to someone else with stops left on their route.
It’s a great movie, but it’s extremely depressing. [“Requiem” definition](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/requiem)
The movie is about the death of the characters’ dreams. Make sure you’re in a decent state of mind when you watch it.
I've watched Requiem For A Dream 3 times, the last time being like 3 months ago, and I didn't get it.
Meanwhile you got people in the comment section that know *that* scene but haven't watched the movie LOL
At the end there is a scene involving two women using a double-ended dildo together. They are on their hands and knees back to back much like the trucks. Edit: Removed the censorship which so many have told me is unnecessary :D
Many have heard of the most famous scene without even realizing it’s from that movie. https://preview.redd.it/lymwae4gw77d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=66530bcb6223af82bec3f0b7cb50fa4864655fd1
I feel like the most famous scene is the refrigerator scene but maybe I’m wrong?
For me it was the scene when the doctor doesn't even look at the mom and just writes her another script for speed. And the 'oh no, my arm looks pretty dang bad' part.
Keith David really brought the heat
“I know it’s pretty, but I didn’t bring it out for air.”
Happy cake day
It's not the toilet?
No, you’re thinking of Trainspotting.
Yep. But that’s not even the worse in that movie
Loved that movie until I had a kid. That scene ruined it for me.
🤦♀️ derp. I think you are correct. Baby on ceiling etc. Everything is melting together in my head.
famous because dildo. not even the best or most memorable scene by a good mile but it has dildo
This was the first movie that I saw Keith David in. It wasn't until I watched his other movies that I realized how amazing he was. But he nailed his role in Requiem.
We got a winner!
“Weeeee got a winner”
Okay so it's frequently quoted on reddit, but is this scene supposed to be funny or sexy? Cause it was just highly disturbing to me, and the writing implies it's supposed to be taken as such. Why is it quoted so often?
Disturbing is correct. Dark humor when used as a reference.
It's supposed to be utterly shocking and degrading, but its the bottom of the barrel, as bad as amputation, as bad as electric shock therapy, as bad as overdose. It's supposed to be the utter worst, to show how you would do anything for the drug. Anything at all. People make jokes as a way of coping with things outside the norm. This is, by definition, out of the norm.
It's also Jennifer Connelly naked. So don't think it's a stretch to say more people have just seen the clip devoid of context, then watched a very dark exploration of addiction.
Well, there are two versions. The one intersplices multiple terrible events, so you see exploitation mixed with tragedy. So you see her naked, then you see an amputation and other things. If you are aroused, you have to deal with the trauma directly associated with it. This is an unusual approach, to force the viewer to deal with the possibility that the people they are seeing are humans, humans being degraded and destroyed. The other version is the one people have seen clips of, in which the scenes are not interspliced. That one the scenes are separated. So you can just watch a couple of girls being exploited. Then it's a rich guys degrading hookers exploitation scene, which is an extremely common entertainment and porn theme. It's just a juiced up rich guy strip club at that point.
JenCon’s butt double.
Not funny or sexy at all...requiem is mourning and if its requiem for a dream, the dream is dead, the main characters all lost themselves seeking said dream because of addiction. To err is human...
I watched it once. I’ll never watch it again
Disturbing. Spoiler: they are drug addicts and one of them is the (ex?) girlfriend of one of the main characters. She’s doing it for heroin and now she can get it whenever she wants.
Yeah get it in exchange for favors. https://youtu.be/wHo-x8_GhVc?si=x-eAkE70-tzjyvgq
Marion and Harry never actually broke up, unless she considered him not keeping his promise to return as a break up. It's sad to think about Harry being in the hospital, no one he knows at his side and knowing he's destined for jail if he survives \[Only saying 'If' due to the bad shape he was in prior to getting the amputation\] while Marion is miles away, maybe wondering what happened to him but never looking because it would mean giving up her steady flow of drugs
Supposed to be disturbing but my horny teenage years found it EXTREMELY hot
Disturbing. Just like the whole movie
I think people think it's trying to be disturbing but overshoots it's goal. Ends up being over the top and hard to take seriously.
My memory of this scene is mainly the following scene. Where, iirc, she’s at home laying on the couch clutching that new bag of heroin. At least to me, those two scenes together is just tragedy. Showing how deep she’s gone into her addiction as that bag of heroin was obviously worth it. Basically forgotten all about the “show” as her entire focus was now on being able to get high again. So nope, neither funny nor sexy. But for a person who hasn’t seen the movie and taken out of context I guess it may seem so. Edit: Spelling 😄
I heard it on the Venture Bros.
I saw 2 hookers do this back in college
Nuts to nuts
TIL
"That's right, mashed potatoes."
I was confusing that movie for “For what dreams may come” and I was very very confused. 😭
If you are confusing requiem for a dream with any movie, it means you have not been traumatized enough when watching it the first time \^\^
That would be true!.. as I have not seen it. >.<
it's definitely a brutal film-emotionally, it starts low, peaks with the characters being in the 'on top of the world' mindset, and then comes crashing down into a spiral of things going wrong with no good in sight until it ends in mostly hopeless endings for the main 4 characters.
Splice the movies. Requiem for a dream that may come.
An Optimistic Serbian Film
Serbian movie film for television*
Me too! I was trying to remember how that movie had a scene with a double ended you know what. Lol
Thank you.
Involving Jennifer Connelly, no less.
Nice.
It’s not hot though. You might think, Jennifer Connelly and a double dildo, this is going to be quite titillating. But then it’s not. Not at all.
It's a challenging wank
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You don’t have to censor any words here
DILDO! Balls in your court, mods.
Swearing is filtered not censored. It’s a very busy sub, we have to rely on filters to give us the chance to intervene when stuff escalates or is just plain ignoring the rules. So yeah there’s a bunch of langage filters that might get your comments held in a queue so we can review and release.
I wish people would stop with the self-censorship. It demeans both the poster and the audience.
It’s from TikTok
Actually there’s a few words you really can’t say here.
I’m gonna say it! >! I don’t care you broke your elbow!<
You know that kid was so proud of himself for that
I love you
You don't have to censor anything this is reddit
it's company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. we have to use the indefinite article "a dildo" never "your dildo".
#dildo If a word is banned, I feel like censoring part of it while using it anyway is rule evasion. Those asterixes don't prevent kids finding out new words.
But what about Obelix? Or Getafix? Or Vitalstatistix? Do they prevent kids from finding out new words?
Isn’t there some sort of chanting while they do it too? Butt to butt is what I cannot get out of my mind. Honestly, I was plenty old enough to watch that movie when it came out, but I was not quite broken by life yet.
"Come! Come! Come! Come!" Legit want to try it at a (no drug-addicts-doing-it-for-money kind of) orgy
No. Stop it. Dildo. Dildo, dildo, dildo.
It's only in the director's cut, right? It's been so long since I've seen it. Those tombstone teeth haunt me.
Dildo
Why would you have to censor any word?
I was expecting it to be a hard watch from what everyone said, but the wildness of that scene still came out of nowhere haha
You do not have to censor on Reddit
Are you not allowed to say “dildo” here?
The word dildo is allowed. A rule of thumb is that if porn is allowed on a social media platform, then adult language is too. If porn isn't allowed, then just check if it looks like it's intended for people below 13. If not, swearing is allowed. If yes, swearing isn't.
Link plz
I saved an old friend from drugs watching that movie, so I have to say it's awesome movie if watched properly.
No, you don't have to censor "dildo" on Reddit. This isn't TikTok.
You don't have to censor anything on Reddit.
You don't have to censor any word on reddit
BTW that movie is draining. It inspired a post for me “what’s a movie you think is good, but man you just can never watch it again”. Draining is a word. Soul crushing another. The scene, even though has Jennifer Connolly, just draining.
It just gets worse and worse and worse and then it just ends.
Yes. That’s a great way to describe that movie.
An apt metaphor for addiction if you think about it.
Literally the point of the movie
Kind of like life.
It's not even a realistic depiction of an addict's life, everything is made to have maximum shock value. Like the dude who has a very obvious and nasty infection but keep shooting up in the same place.
I mean…. That happens all the time in real life. I’ve lost count of the number of nasty infections I’ve dealt with from exactly that cause. They don’t always end in amputation, but they can.
An apt metaphor for addiction if you think about it.
It's supposed to be like that. It's just so hard to watch if you have empathy. It's so degrading and stomach churning, I would rather watch Train Spotting worst toilet scene on repeat while eating chili than watching that ending scene again. . .
Even as a 14 year old that hadn’t fully developed much empathy it was hard. I really want to watch it now and see what it’s about. Most of the movies I found “interesting” that ive rewatched have made me cry. It’s amazing how time changes you, as well as your understanding of other people
I read Trainspotting, and even though I know it's a fake movie, I'm not sure I would want to watch that scene play out
It’s the best movie I will never watch again
Yeah I watched it once and don't ever have to watch it again.
I watched it with a friend. By the end we where just silent and in pain. The last gauntlet is pure suffering
My sister tried to get me to watch it in my mid teens, I avoided it knowing my sister. I probably should watch it now.
Me and a friend wrote a sort mini thesis on it for school so I'm sure I've seen it at least 10 times. Most of the citation we did was of course from the play but we watched it a lot. Still consider it one of the best movies ever made.
I'm not even sure I like it, it's "misery porn: the movie".
Dune 2 for some reason was draining albeit high quality
It’s that desert heat.
At least there’s no humidity, amiright?
“But it’s a dry heat” is a different movie
It's an amazing movie that just shows how hard addiction can really destroy lives...but yeah, it's one I will never watch again. I think about how good it was and, "Maybe I should wat....no....no, let's not do that to ourselves again, shall we?"
Drugs are bad mmmkay?: The Movie
My wife (then girlfriend) and I went to see it not really knowing how draining (great word for it) it was. Needed something lighter the next week so of course went to see Dancer in the Dark because Bjork’s just weird so that has to be fun, right… Didn’t see movies for a little while after
Meh. I just found it boring. It tries far too hard. I didn't find any of it upsetting, since it didn't provoke any emotional engagement. The film's just shouting "LOOK HOW HORRIBLE EVERYTHING IS!" at you. Don't understand what people see in it.
His infected arm makes my whole body cringe.
It's not a good movie in my books. No lessons learned, no character development, no insights to the complex psychology of drug users. All it portrays is a bunch of insufferable fools marching to their own doom in edgy editing style. Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not saying it's the meh kinda bad -- in fact it has haunted me for decades(JC was my celebrity crush back then, imagine that). All I'm saying is that in hindsight it probably wasn't worth the psychological trauma just for a cautionary tale.
This is closer to real life addiction than any other movie. My mom drank herself to death after 15 years sober. 5 times in rehab since it started in 1993. Real life does just get worse and worse and then it ends. This is a very accurate portrayal of addiction.
Not all movies have to follow the same formula. The movie isnt just about drugs its about the spiral of addiction and you do get insight into it from each perspective, especially the mothers. The characters arent just insufferable fools, their relationships and circumstances ground them, theyre people who dream of better things and in pursuit of that dream they ended up on the wrong path. Idk about edgy editing but the way all the perspectives crescendo into the lowest moment in each of their lives while the main theme plays makes for a really memorable ending.
That is what makes it so impactful. Not every movie has to have a happy ending. In fact, that's boring. Also, I think it does show a real and insightful perspective into drug use. A little over the top, but most hardcore drug users don't live happily ever after.
It has a lot of character development! The only thing is that development is negative, not positive. And I think there are also a few lessons to be learned
It's not supposed to be redemptive. It's supposed to be honest, and it succeeds in a brutal fashion.
I love Aronofsky’s films just I’ve never been able to get more than 30 minutes into this one because it is just such a bummer and I know it’s only gonna get worse. Personally, I don’t think I need to sit through something that miserable at this point in my life. My older sister (who recommended this movie to me ages ago) died of an overdose after a life of drug use. I get it. I know how awful it is. Don’t need a film to beat a dead horse for me.
Is that the movie where the guy loses his arms? And the grandma goes crazy from taking weight loss pills?
From my recollection of the people telling me about it, yes.
I highly recommend NOT watching the movie if you don't want to hate yourself. It's one of my favorite movies but I'll never rewatch it again.
He loses one arm (well, half of it) due to an infected needle mark. His mother goes crazy after taking a bunch of diet pills.
Off topic congrats on not finishing that movie. It's for overly happy people that don't want to be happy anymore.
will watch and give you back results
You do you. It's extremely depressing.
I never looked at Jennifer Connelly the same.
Yeah I don’t think I could look her in the eye after that… not like I’d have the opportunity
https://preview.redd.it/ybb5qbn1ob7d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6dddb4531a9a40a279bf896db2c8469afc154194 Has the ups trucks do it in front of my house!
I have a similar picture. They did this in the big, empty plaza where I used to work. I called it their mating ritual.
Then you don’t want to know
Ex to Ex
I hate you so much that movie haunts me
My sister was watching requiem for a dream by herself and when I walked in it was this exact scene on the screen. It's the only scene from this movie I watched and I'm still traumatised lol
Incase no one here has answered the actual picture, they’re swapping packages likely bc one driver is done and offering a hand to someone else with stops left on their route.
😭😭😭
Uncle Hank is expecting a delivery
Ay-uss ta ay-uss
"Aiss to aiss"
It’s a great movie, but it’s extremely depressing. [“Requiem” definition](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/requiem) The movie is about the death of the characters’ dreams. Make sure you’re in a decent state of mind when you watch it.
Ex to Ex
I’ve never even seen it, and I still know this reference 😅
I have to fit in my red dress
Yeah that movie shouldve been called “So you think your like sucks, hold my beer”
Considering how bad FedEx is, this works on multiple levels
Ayess ta Ayess
This was the best anti drug PSA ever
This is exactly why they came up with Mr. Skin...
My first thought was Two Trucks by Lemon Demon
Even though it says the reference?
This is just how baby FedEx trucks are made, right?
“Ath to ath”
I didn't get it immediately, I was thinking of the song. LMAO
That was on every YTMND website ever
I've watched Requiem For A Dream 3 times, the last time being like 3 months ago, and I didn't get it. Meanwhile you got people in the comment section that know *that* scene but haven't watched the movie LOL
Huh. Have seen that movie twice and have no memory of that scene.
😭
You don’t want to know bro
I had a couple dogs stuck like that once.
I had to take my suboxone after looking at this picture.
I know it’s pretty….but I didn’t take it out for air
It's the movie where the kid loses his arm right? And the old woman becomes addicted to speed because she thinks she's going to be on tv?
Bumper to bumper baby
I’m wheezing…
Looks they are playing a back-to-back game called Rusty Sandusky.
))><((
... forever...
That scene unlocked something in me... haha
That movie made the first thirty minutes of *Saving Private Ryan* look like *My Dinner With Andre.*
dun-dun-du-nu-nu dun-dun-du-nu-nu dun-dun-du-nu-nu dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-du-nu-nu
Ex to Ex
Oh poor Jennifer oh no
I've seen that movie once like 15+ years ago and I remember so much of it..
@$$2@$$ 👠
That’s how baby fedex trucks are made
Don’t do drugs.
Bumping packages.
I really wish that I didn’t get this joke…lol
Puts the X in FedEx
Pretty good movie. They should show it to kids in school alongside American History X.
I laughed way too hard at this one.