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In Requiem For A Dream, the story revolves around four main characters: Harry, Marion, Tyrone, and Sara. All four of these individuals are shown as expressing what is generally believed to be deviant behavior, and a couple of theories that explain how these characters are deviant include labeling theory and conflict theory. Anomie theory also plays into their stories.

Sara Goldfarb is shown to be affected by labeling theory by the fact that she becomes obsessed with losing weight since she is "fat." As she struggles with a diet plan found in a book a neighbor gave her, she decides to take up using diet pills. The fact that she is shown checking her weight, and that this becomes what she talks about constantly (i.e. when Harry comes to visit), she has adopted becoming thin for television as her primary purpose (secondary deviance according to labeling theory). As Sara progresses with her pursuit of thinness, she starts to psychologically break with reality. She begins to......

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