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Requiem for a Dream (2000) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: When Marion is leaving Arnold's flat for the first time you can see some parts of the steady cam outlined under her coat. When she catches some wind while leaving the building, the coat is lifted up for some instants and you can actually see them.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After having sex with Marion, while she is still in the bathroom, Big Tim appears on scene supposedly naked, but you can see the piece of fabric the production used to cover his pubis.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Harry calls Marion from the hospital she picks the phone up with her right hand and puts it on her left ear but when the camera focuses on her it's on her right ear. This is almost certainly a mirror shot, not a mistake.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: Whenever someone takes drugs and their pupils "dilate" you can see that it's a normal eye being distorted by a computer because the arc of reflected light also is distorted.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Sara is trying on the red dress but it won't zip up all the way, in the mirror behind her you can see the 'fat suit' used to give Ellen Burstyn the larger appearance.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the two ladies visit Sara and are outside sitting on a bench, you can clearly see at the right lower part of the bench the cotton trying to appear as snow.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At two different times during the movie (when Marion, Harry and Tyrone are discussing the possibility of getting heroin from Brody, and when Harry is sitting around waiting for Tyrone to come back with Brody's heroin), records are supposedly playing, but the tone arms are in the 'up' position and the stylus is sitting above the record.
  
  
• Factual errors: Sara is given multiple jolts of ECT while fully conscious. Real ECT patients are always anesthetized.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harry is waiting for Tyrone to return with the drugs, we can see Harry playing with a turntable. The shot of the turntable itself shows Harry's left hand on the record. In the next shot, his right hand is in the turntable.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harry and Tyrone pawn the TV, there is a goose-neck lamp behind Mr. Rabinowitz that changes position between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: The purse strap changes positions between shots when Marion heads to and enters the elevator.
  
  
• Continuity: When Marion leaves Albert's apartment and runs onto the street to vomit it is raining heavily, however when she arrives back home her hair and clothes are completely dry.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Marion stabs Arnold in the hand with a fork, you can see fork marks on the fake hand from rehearsal.
  
  
• Factual errors: When surgeons amputate a limb, they first remove the muscles/tendons and the nerves, and then they cut through the bone. They do not simply saw through the flesh as depicted here.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harry is on Marion's bed, he has his arms in his sweatshirt. In the next shot, his arms are out of his sweatshirt.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the characters take Heroin, either injected or snorted, the sequence showing their eyes dilating is inaccurate. Opiates produce a constricting of the pupil. However, the dilating is correct when the characters are using Ecstasy and Cocaine.
  
  
• Continuity: Marion's bangs when she is at dinner with Arnold near the end of the movie constantly change from being behind her ears to down in her face.
  
  
• Continuity: When the paper aeroplane is made it is snub nosed (there is no point on the front), whereas when it is thrown from the tower it has a pointed nose.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: At the end of the scene in which Harry goes back to visit his mother, they hug each other. As they are hugging, a boom mic lowers into the top middle of the shot.
  
  
• Factual errors: When someone uses heroin their pupils reduce in size, if they use speed or cocaine then they dilate rapidly as shown in the movie.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: In the pullback shot of Harry when his arm is missing, you can see under the sheets the outline of his left arm pressed up against his body.
  
  

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