10 Mistakes Directors Hoped You'd Forget By The End Of The Movie

Requiem for a Dream is an incredible movie that touts as its centerpiece an Oscar-nominated performance from Ellen Burstyn as amphetamine addict Sara Goldfarb.

Burstyn steals every scene she's in, but never more than the devastating mid-film monologue where she breaks down about her age and loneliness to her son Harry (Jared Leto).

The two-minute monologue lingers almost entirely on Burstyn's face with just a few quick cutaways to Leto, but near the end of the sequence, audiences might notice that the camera loses track of Burstyn as she looks upwards.

It's a fairly amateur moment in an otherwise extremely polished and professional-looking film, and actually the result of cinematographer Matthew Libatique being moved to tears while filming the scene.

This caused him to fog up the camera eyepiece and fail to realise that he let the camera drift off-course.

Director Darren Aronofsky, mystified by the mistake, only realised the reason for the misalignment when he called "cut," but loved the take enough that he decided to use it anyway.

Considering this scene probably secured Burstyn's Oscar nomination, it was 100% the right call.