![]() ![]() ![]() Says Selby: “The dream I'm referring to in the book, of course, is the great American dream: prosperity, property, prestige, etc. ![]() They devise various means of getting high and getting rich, all of which lead to catastrophe.Īronofsky says: “One of the things this film is about is the hole we create in our present when we chase the illusion of tomorrow and then the distances we go to fill that vacuum with anything and everything.” Her son Harry (Jared Leto), his girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) and friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) are all junkies. Believing that she has been chosen as a contestant on her favorite program, Sara makes various attempts to lose weight, which eventually result in her addiction to diet pills and a mental collapse. Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a lonely widow who lives for television and game shows in particular. The story involves four people living in the Coney Island section in Brooklyn, New York. Unhappily, Aronofsky is all too faithful to the spirit of the Selby original. In this Aronofsky ( Pi, 1998) is not being untrue to the 1978 novel by Hubert Selby, Jr. That is the tone of Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream. and Darren Aronofsky, adapted from the novel by Hubert Selby, Jr.Īs a rule, screaming at the top of one's lungs, even about genuine injustices and human difficulties, is not an effective method of reaching people. ![]() Requiem for a Dream, directed by Darren Aronofsky, screenplay by Hubert Selby, Jr. ![]()
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