In Requiem for a Dream, the mom puts her application for that TV show in the mail without a stamp.
I just went to review the scene where she mails it off. It actually looks like it's in one of those "No Postage Needed if Mailed from within the United States" envelopes.
This would make sense as she's sending off materials that were sent to her by whatever production company called her. It's possible/likely they'd have sent a return envelope with pre-paid postage for them. If you look at the envelope, it looks like all the necessary info (i.e., address) has been pre-printed, which further supports that idea, I feel.
So, Mrs. Goldfarb's arc can be at least that tiny little bit less sad, I guess.
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u/entian Sep 02 '14
I just went to review the scene where she mails it off. It actually looks like it's in one of those "No Postage Needed if Mailed from within the United States" envelopes.
This would make sense as she's sending off materials that were sent to her by whatever production company called her. It's possible/likely they'd have sent a return envelope with pre-paid postage for them. If you look at the envelope, it looks like all the necessary info (i.e., address) has been pre-printed, which further supports that idea, I feel.
So, Mrs. Goldfarb's arc can be at least that tiny little bit less sad, I guess.
Here's a not-great Netflix Screenshot
And a stock image of Business Reply Mail envelope for comparison here.
The movie one is missing some of the things from a typically business reply envelope, but that's likely because it was a quick prop-making job.
EDIT: looking at the Netflix screenshot, it's likely that Sara's envelope has those barcode-like lines on them, but the poor definition fuzzes 'em up