Requiem // 102: 32
[This post is a contribution to the Requiem // 102 project created by Nicholas Rombes . The gist: Requiem for a Dream , isolating one frame from each minute of the film. For more on the concept, see the About page at the project home . This post concerns frame 32: ] 32 We are following the back of a little boy. The past and future are familiar countries. They do things similarly there. The main characters of Requiem for a Dream spend all their energy and money and passion on trying to escape the present. They retreat into memories, they pin their hopes on a tale of the future. Now is always terrible and terrifying and terrorizing; then was wonderful, and soon will be bliss. Requiem. A mass for the repose of a soul into death. The OED describes an obsolete meaning: An invitation to one's soul to take the peaceful rest one has hoped for or earned. The earliest citation is from 1607: "Every man sings a requiem to his own heart." A ...
