Harry wants to use some of the money to purchase a retail space for Marion, a budding fashion designer. They stuff all their accumulating cash in a secret shoebox. Instead of trying the Japanese Long Breath Diet, Sara finds a doctor who will prescribe her some diet pills. Sara tries the eggs and grapefruit diet, but she wants to lose weight faster. Sara wants to wear the red dress she wore to Harry's high school graduation. You've heard that the camera adds ten pounds. Thrilled at the chance for fame, and the opportunity to brag about her son and dead husband to the nation, Sara plans what to wear on TV. What could it be? Let's Make a Deal? The Bachelorette? The Real Golden Girls of Brooklyn? She has no idea, just that she'll be a contestant on some sort of televised program. Meanwhile, Sara gets a call that she's going to be on television. They can cut it and resell it for profit. Ty thinks that he, Harry, and Harry's girlfriend, Marion, should all go in on a pile of good stuff. Harry and his friend Ty sell the TV for drug money. No, he isn't desperate to catch the season finale of The Bachelor. Sara Goldfarb hides in the closet when her son, Harry, comes to steal her TV. It doesn't quite work that way in the film's opening scene, but the film version of Requiem still grabs you by your tenderest of bits and doesn't let go. "Harry locked his mother in the closet." That's Hubert Selby's favorite line from his novel-that-became-the-world's-bleakest movie, Requiem For A Dream.
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