15 Totally Flawless Movie Monologues

15. I'm Somebody Now - Requiem For A Dream (2000)

In Requiem for a Dream, widow and mother Sara (Ellen Burstyn) is invited to take part in her favourite game show, and in hopes of being able to fit into her best dress she goes on a crash diet and eventually becomes addicted to amphetamines.

When her son, Harry (Jared Leto) - himself a heroin addict - tries to talk her out of her drug use, she breaks down and offers up one of the film's many soul-destroying moments.

For Sara, the prospect of going on her favourite show and finally being free of her lonely existence is enough reason for the drastic measures she's taking to lose weight. She laments about her late husband, her futile attempts at happiness and how people have started to like her.

It's a tragic, painfully human moment, where Sara lays it all on the table admits how unhappy and lost she really is, and Burstyn gives the performance of a lifetime.

Seeing where she ends up during the film's climax - trapped in a coma following electroshock therapy - only makes it that much harder to listen to her pain.