Jennifer Connelly A Beautiful Mind 2002

The film “Requiem for a Dream” explores drug addiction, with all four main characters struggling with their dependence on illegal substances. It illustrates how an addiction destroys lives. In the film, Jennifer Connelly plays the character Marion Silver, who performs degrading sex acts for money. She does this to sustain her drug addiction.

The NY Times praised her performance writing:

Ms. Connelly has never before done anything to prepare us for how good she is here. Her revulsion is so visceral you can almost feel her nerve endings recoiling. It’s her performance that gives the movie weight.

While Entertainment Weekly wrote:

Whose flash-eyed voluptuous beauty is, for the first time, matched by her radiant command as an actress. The gradual transformation she undergoes, from caressing lover to selfish, clawing dope fiend to dead-hearted prostitute willing to do anything, is a slow descent into pure degraded madness.

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