Requiem for A Dream (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
By Sophie Peterson
Summer Overture & Coney Island Dreaming
The tragedy of the film Requiem for a Dream is the loss of a dream that feels so close and then gradually slips away. As I work towards animating my short film, I watch as the deadlines I set for myself pirouette behind me, a constant state of spirals. In the film, Marion dreams of opening a clothing store, tying a lilac ribbon around her neck, collaging inspirations, and dreaming through fashion, a creative outlet, but fragments of her life begin to fall apart.
Ghosts of Things to Come, Marion Barfs, & Ghosts of a Future Lost
Love or a soft stillness, intimacy, but instead the coldness of disappointment, apathy, and loss. I felt my dreams and visions fading. Those who left a feeling, memories of them still approach my dreams some nights.
The electronic interludes; the self-destructive chaos I found so easy, setting me back further and further each day from moving forward and finding stillness.
Supermarket Sweep, Sara Goldfarb Has Left the Building, Full Tense, & Meltdown
A very intense stress from time crystallizing, and coming face to face with a truth that be one’s own saboteur. Drinking in the face of the morning, feeling the engine shutting down, and crying in my own self-disgust.
But the solemn peace at the end of the score, of the gravitational pull of the ocean brushing back and forth, and the sweet pace of the laughs of strangers and the pain of sharp sand on your ankles and cool air on your cheek. To remember that peace is in letting go.
“sharp fragments of sand and glass” – Sophie Peterson
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