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Requiem for a Dream [Screenplay]
From the writer/director of the acclaimed film Pi, the screen-adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s classic cult novel. Requiem for a Dream is a modern-day fable set on the rusted mean streets of Brooklyn's Coney Island that follows the stories of four people desperately in pursuit of a better life. Oscar-winning actress Ellen Burstyn stars as Sara, a widowed mother obsessed with her waistline and addicted to diet pills and the thought of appearing on television. Her son Harry (Jared Leto), his girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly), and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans in a surprising dramatic debut), are junkies in search of the American dream - only in their world fortunes are won through a successful score and sell operation and the three long to lay their hands on the pound of heroin that, once unloaded, will finance a legitimate business of their own. Soon enough, though, their earnest pursuits begin to take on horrifying dimensions; and, even as their world crumbles around them, Sara, Harry, Marion and Tyrone refuse to let go, plummeting with their dreams in a nightmarish freefall not soon to be forgotten.
144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
About the author
Darren Aronofsky
41 books181 followersDarren S. Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. He attended Harvard University and AFI to study both live-action and animation film theory, where he met long-time collaborator Matthew Libatique. He won several film awards after completing his senior thesis film, "Supermarket Sweep", starring Sean Gullette, which went on to become a National Student Academy Award finalist.
Aronofsky did not make a feature film until five years later, creating the concept for his debut feature, π, in February 1996. The low-budget, $60,000 production, starring Sean Gullette, was sold to Artisan Entertainment for $1 million, and grossed over $3 million; it won both a Sundance Film Festival award and an Independent Spirit Award. Aronofsky's followup, Requiem for a Dream, was based on the novel of the same name written by Hubert Selby, Jr. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Ellen Burstyn's performance. After turning down an opportunity to direct Batman Begins, Aronofsky began production on his third film, The Fountain. The film was released to mixed reviews and poor box office results.
However, his next film, The Wrestler, rebounded with positive reviews and healthy box office. Both of the film's stars, Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei, received Academy Award nominations. Rourke also won a Golden Globe for Best Actor and Bruce Springsteen won for Best Original Song for his title song. Aronofsky's next film, Black Swan, received further critical acclaim and many accolades, being nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, four Golden Globes including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, a record 12 BFCA nominations and a DGA nomination.
Aronofsky did not make a feature film until five years later, creating the concept for his debut feature, π, in February 1996. The low-budget, $60,000 production, starring Sean Gullette, was sold to Artisan Entertainment for $1 million, and grossed over $3 million; it won both a Sundance Film Festival award and an Independent Spirit Award. Aronofsky's followup, Requiem for a Dream, was based on the novel of the same name written by Hubert Selby, Jr. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Ellen Burstyn's performance. After turning down an opportunity to direct Batman Begins, Aronofsky began production on his third film, The Fountain. The film was released to mixed reviews and poor box office results.
However, his next film, The Wrestler, rebounded with positive reviews and healthy box office. Both of the film's stars, Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei, received Academy Award nominations. Rourke also won a Golden Globe for Best Actor and Bruce Springsteen won for Best Original Song for his title song. Aronofsky's next film, Black Swan, received further critical acclaim and many accolades, being nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, four Golden Globes including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, a record 12 BFCA nominations and a DGA nomination.
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April 28, 2017
So tragic but, I think it is fancy novel. However; I never been in a deep feeling and interactive with such novels ever.
Therefore; I decide to watch the film as I heard it was fillmed recently!
Also I would like to mention to the good way of writing this story which makes the reader well-linked to the story scenario.
Well done!
Therefore; I decide to watch the film as I heard it was fillmed recently!
Also I would like to mention to the good way of writing this story which makes the reader well-linked to the story scenario.
Well done!
July 23, 2016
Poetic.
September 28, 2026
Darren Aronofsky’s screenplay for Requiem for a Dream is devastating.
I knew the story. I knew where it was going. None of that made reading it any easier.
What hit me hardest this time wasn’t simply the drugs, the addiction, or the physical destruction. It was how ordinary the beginning of every disaster feels. Nobody wakes up one morning and decides to ruin their life. It happens incrementally.
One compromise. One excuse. One habit you know isn’t helping but doesn’t seem serious enough to confront yet. One more night. One more drink. One more pill. One more decision that would be harmless if it existed entirely on its own.
But decisions rarely exist entirely on their own. Way leads on to way.
That was the part of the screenplay that forced me to look at areas of my own life I’d been allowing to slip. Not because my life resembles the extremity of what happens to Harry, Marion, Tyrone, or Sara, but because the mechanism is recognizable.
You stop paying attention. You tell yourself you’ll correct course later. Then later becomes normal.
What impressed me most on the page is how Aronofsky makes the screenplay itself behave like addiction. Actions repeat. Images recur. Rituals become compressed into increasingly familiar beats. The rhythms accelerate until the characters’ compulsions begin determining the rhythm of the script itself. You’re not simply reading, “They use again.” You feel the cycle tightening.
That’s difficult to accomplish in prose and even harder in a screenplay, where economy is everything. Aronofsky uses repetition without making it static. Each recurrence lands slightly differently because something has deteriorated since the last one. The same action becomes less comforting, more desperate, more mechanical.
By the final movement, the script barely gives you room to breathe. I was suffocating. That formal control is part of what makes the story so punishing.
The brilliance of Requiem for a Dream is that Aronofsky doesn’t treat addiction as a simple morality play about weak people making bad decisions. Every character wants something painfully human: love, belonging, confidence, success, escape, dignity, the feeling that their life is finally about to begin. That’s what makes it so cruel.
The thing promising to deliver the dream gradually becomes the thing destroying the person dreaming it.
Sara Goldfarb may be the most heartbreaking example. Her addiction looks different from the others, but the hunger underneath it is the same. She wants to matter. She wants to be seen. She wants to feel beautiful and included again. There’s nothing ridiculous about those desires, which makes watching them exploited almost unbearable.
As someone who writes about addiction, self-destruction, survival and the excuses people make to themselves, I found the screenplay especially difficult to shake. There is no comfortable distance between the audience and these characters. Aronofsky keeps narrowing it until eventually you’re forced to ask where your own seemingly minor compromises are taking you.
That is what great writing can do. It doesn’t merely show you somebody else falling apart. Sometimes it makes you check the bolts in your own life.
Requiem for a Dream is bleak, ugly, relentless and deeply compassionate. I finished it feeling gutted. And paying considerably more attention to my own life.
I knew the story. I knew where it was going. None of that made reading it any easier.
What hit me hardest this time wasn’t simply the drugs, the addiction, or the physical destruction. It was how ordinary the beginning of every disaster feels. Nobody wakes up one morning and decides to ruin their life. It happens incrementally.
One compromise. One excuse. One habit you know isn’t helping but doesn’t seem serious enough to confront yet. One more night. One more drink. One more pill. One more decision that would be harmless if it existed entirely on its own.
But decisions rarely exist entirely on their own. Way leads on to way.
That was the part of the screenplay that forced me to look at areas of my own life I’d been allowing to slip. Not because my life resembles the extremity of what happens to Harry, Marion, Tyrone, or Sara, but because the mechanism is recognizable.
You stop paying attention. You tell yourself you’ll correct course later. Then later becomes normal.
What impressed me most on the page is how Aronofsky makes the screenplay itself behave like addiction. Actions repeat. Images recur. Rituals become compressed into increasingly familiar beats. The rhythms accelerate until the characters’ compulsions begin determining the rhythm of the script itself. You’re not simply reading, “They use again.” You feel the cycle tightening.
That’s difficult to accomplish in prose and even harder in a screenplay, where economy is everything. Aronofsky uses repetition without making it static. Each recurrence lands slightly differently because something has deteriorated since the last one. The same action becomes less comforting, more desperate, more mechanical.
By the final movement, the script barely gives you room to breathe. I was suffocating. That formal control is part of what makes the story so punishing.
The brilliance of Requiem for a Dream is that Aronofsky doesn’t treat addiction as a simple morality play about weak people making bad decisions. Every character wants something painfully human: love, belonging, confidence, success, escape, dignity, the feeling that their life is finally about to begin. That’s what makes it so cruel.
The thing promising to deliver the dream gradually becomes the thing destroying the person dreaming it.
Sara Goldfarb may be the most heartbreaking example. Her addiction looks different from the others, but the hunger underneath it is the same. She wants to matter. She wants to be seen. She wants to feel beautiful and included again. There’s nothing ridiculous about those desires, which makes watching them exploited almost unbearable.
As someone who writes about addiction, self-destruction, survival and the excuses people make to themselves, I found the screenplay especially difficult to shake. There is no comfortable distance between the audience and these characters. Aronofsky keeps narrowing it until eventually you’re forced to ask where your own seemingly minor compromises are taking you.
That is what great writing can do. It doesn’t merely show you somebody else falling apart. Sometimes it makes you check the bolts in your own life.
Requiem for a Dream is bleak, ugly, relentless and deeply compassionate. I finished it feeling gutted. And paying considerably more attention to my own life.
April 27, 2015
Hmm . . . great read! Yet sadly, this is not actually just a story; these type of people exist and there is millions of them. Unfortunately this type of thing is only spreading throughout our society more and more as time goes on. I've been there myself and . . . it sucks. But at one point in my life it really did come down to either ‘sell drugs and eat or don't sell drugs and don't eat’ . . . usually the drugs would vanquish any hunger I had anyway, but then addiction is still a form of hunger, right? It's a tough one to escape, so much so that it took a death of a friend to finally wake me up; twenty four and in a coffin . . . that's not on. So enough was enough, I tried getting my sh*t together. It was a struggle but I'm clean now, pretty much, anyway; when one used to be a drug enthusiast it's kind of hard to let that kind of thing go altogether, so. . . OK, honesty is the key, I believe. I smoke a bit of weed, drink more than I'd like, and very very occasionally dabble in things that make me see weird stuff –magical fungi. I think it's not about not doing drugs, it's about having the control to respect them; most things in life are fine in moderation, and pretty much everything can kill you so . . .
The prostitution for drugs or drug money in the book I think gets to me the most . . . probably because it’s the one I’ve been the most disturbed by in our society today; people will do weird stuff for drugs . . .
This book is a great insight into the drug culture and the minds of a drug addict. Full on, fast paced, disorientating and depressing, it is basically what being a drug addict is really like. Must read! Well done! If you liked this book then check out my novel www.sketcity.co.uk same tone, real life stuff + Squatpunk, Stabhouse, Slasher, HowlerFiction.
December 30, 2008
Amazing film. I haven't read the book, but I must. After watching this I just sat in awe. It deserves more then 5 stars.
July 8, 2025
Requiem For A Dream by Darren Aronofsky, one of the greatest movies of all time http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/10/r...
10 out of 10
This narrative works splendidly on many levels, first of all, it is a majestic motion picture, with superb acting, a marvelous director, outstanding script, everything about it is phenomenal, and then you can learn so much from it, from how bad things can get when one is addicted – Things Fall Apart http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/04/t... which is incidentally the name of a magnum opus by Chinua Achebe – to drugs or weight losing pills, or other substance or activity.
The other way to benefit from this saga – in fact there are other countless perspectives, this being a masterpiece, it does have maybe as many angles as viewers – would be to see how low the protagonists have descended to a nadir and when comparing with them see how fortunate we are – one of the rules of happiness is called ‘Happiness Activity No 1: Expressing Gratitude –counting your blessings for what you have either to a close other or privately, maybe in a journal, conveying gratitude to one or more individuals you haven’t properly thanked’ in The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
In the same marvelous, wondrous opus we have Happiness Activity No 3: Avoid Over thinking and Social Comparison- using strategies such as distraction to cut down on how often you dwell on your problems and compare yourself with others only I have found a version in some other work, which suggests that we could look at those who have less, like Sara, Harry, Marion and Tyrone in the motion picture, and compare with them http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/07/t...
Aristotle has written some wise lines on drama, the way it should have reversal and revelation – as in Oedipus Rex, where the messenger brings the news that make the hero realize he had killed his father and married his mother http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/03/n... - - and how the hero must have traits that the audience thinks it has, the fall in the drama has to make sense, the main character could not be too close to perfection, for it would be hard to take, he must make some mistake, otherwise his descent would be unfair and the public will reject it
Aristotle states that the purpose of tragedy is to arouse “terror and pity” and thereby effect the catharsis of these emotions…in a tragedy, a happy ending doesn't make us happy’ indeed, as I was saying above, it could work in the sense that when we see what happens to the characters their fall will make us see that we are much better, also, alternatively, the rich, mighty could understand that they can experience misfortune and be more humble, prudent, become better at the end of a good drama, tragedy…
Over the past few weeks , I have been very upset with the downgrading of the service, facilities at the club Downtown – they do not take the trouble to fix anything, from the saunas that are decrepit and offer the incandescent temperature of 50 degrees Celsius up to about ten o’clock (maybe after I abandon the premises it gets to 120, so there is this caveat, albeit it is more than doubtful such miracle takes places, and besides, they have sent messages saying they are closed for some days) to…a cheap battery needed for the weighing gadget, the rusty seal for the airing system in the hammam, which could not be more than ten dollars.
Maybe it is like Requiem For A Dream, those personages are addicted to drugs, and we are dependent on these saunas, utilities, and we have nowhere else to go, and the chain that has a near (or perhaps absolute) monopoly in the market can play the game it wants, closing the outdoor Jacuzzi and blaming it on the Hotel…by the way, The Radisson is both a major disappointment and a puzzle in this beano
The Radisson is supposed to offer a high standard, their ads on CNN pretend that their clients are so spoiled, whereas what we see at this gym that is used by paying subscribers from this city (like myself) and the guests of the hotel…how is it that employees from the Radisson do not take the trouble to check, at least once in a while, the abysmal service (or lack thereof) that is on offer at this ‘wellness’ outfit, which has a policy of cutting expenses to the point where one has to keep wondering what is off next.
There is in fact some sort of race to the bottom, the outdoors Jacuzzi is closed by the hotel (at least that is what the spa claims) and then the other party in this ‘relationship’ cuts down the indoors one – it was off because a client has vomited in the water, says the manager, because evidently, the clients, hotel and higher echelons are responsible for that is wrong, and presumably, she is to be cherished for whatever works, when it does
One of the most influential, illustrious psychologists of our time, Malcolm Gladwell has a few miracle books, Outliers, Blink, Talking to Strangers, and the excellent The Tipping Point http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/08/t... wherein he explains what happens in places that are neglected or abandoned (to joke, just like this Club and that side of the Radisson that refers to ‘spa’) where crime becomes rampant, and he cites the case of New York.
Where windows were broken, graffiti was everywhere, and the areas were dirty and run down, crime levels were high, but when authorities changed their strategy and started focusing on the ‘small crime’ and took care of those sectors – when they stopped the fellows that jumped to avoid paying at the subway, they found that many also had illegal guns, or/and drugs - and taking care of the ‘smaller problems’ helped with solving the major issues – in the same manner, I think the club would do well to fix the trouble (the hotel should do its job better too) because when they give the impression that they neglect and do not care, clients are more aggressive, pour water on the feeble stove in the sauna, and make it even more ‘capricious’, they turn their frustration towards the showers and other spaces and this becomes a vicious spiral, just like in Requiem for A Dream http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/08/t...
Written by Revolutionary Realini – the link proving that is here http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r... an article from Newsweek, covering the 1989 Revolution that ended the Ceausescu regime
10 out of 10
This narrative works splendidly on many levels, first of all, it is a majestic motion picture, with superb acting, a marvelous director, outstanding script, everything about it is phenomenal, and then you can learn so much from it, from how bad things can get when one is addicted – Things Fall Apart http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/04/t... which is incidentally the name of a magnum opus by Chinua Achebe – to drugs or weight losing pills, or other substance or activity.
The other way to benefit from this saga – in fact there are other countless perspectives, this being a masterpiece, it does have maybe as many angles as viewers – would be to see how low the protagonists have descended to a nadir and when comparing with them see how fortunate we are – one of the rules of happiness is called ‘Happiness Activity No 1: Expressing Gratitude –counting your blessings for what you have either to a close other or privately, maybe in a journal, conveying gratitude to one or more individuals you haven’t properly thanked’ in The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
In the same marvelous, wondrous opus we have Happiness Activity No 3: Avoid Over thinking and Social Comparison- using strategies such as distraction to cut down on how often you dwell on your problems and compare yourself with others only I have found a version in some other work, which suggests that we could look at those who have less, like Sara, Harry, Marion and Tyrone in the motion picture, and compare with them http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/07/t...
Aristotle has written some wise lines on drama, the way it should have reversal and revelation – as in Oedipus Rex, where the messenger brings the news that make the hero realize he had killed his father and married his mother http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/03/n... - - and how the hero must have traits that the audience thinks it has, the fall in the drama has to make sense, the main character could not be too close to perfection, for it would be hard to take, he must make some mistake, otherwise his descent would be unfair and the public will reject it
Aristotle states that the purpose of tragedy is to arouse “terror and pity” and thereby effect the catharsis of these emotions…in a tragedy, a happy ending doesn't make us happy’ indeed, as I was saying above, it could work in the sense that when we see what happens to the characters their fall will make us see that we are much better, also, alternatively, the rich, mighty could understand that they can experience misfortune and be more humble, prudent, become better at the end of a good drama, tragedy…
Over the past few weeks , I have been very upset with the downgrading of the service, facilities at the club Downtown – they do not take the trouble to fix anything, from the saunas that are decrepit and offer the incandescent temperature of 50 degrees Celsius up to about ten o’clock (maybe after I abandon the premises it gets to 120, so there is this caveat, albeit it is more than doubtful such miracle takes places, and besides, they have sent messages saying they are closed for some days) to…a cheap battery needed for the weighing gadget, the rusty seal for the airing system in the hammam, which could not be more than ten dollars.
Maybe it is like Requiem For A Dream, those personages are addicted to drugs, and we are dependent on these saunas, utilities, and we have nowhere else to go, and the chain that has a near (or perhaps absolute) monopoly in the market can play the game it wants, closing the outdoor Jacuzzi and blaming it on the Hotel…by the way, The Radisson is both a major disappointment and a puzzle in this beano
The Radisson is supposed to offer a high standard, their ads on CNN pretend that their clients are so spoiled, whereas what we see at this gym that is used by paying subscribers from this city (like myself) and the guests of the hotel…how is it that employees from the Radisson do not take the trouble to check, at least once in a while, the abysmal service (or lack thereof) that is on offer at this ‘wellness’ outfit, which has a policy of cutting expenses to the point where one has to keep wondering what is off next.
There is in fact some sort of race to the bottom, the outdoors Jacuzzi is closed by the hotel (at least that is what the spa claims) and then the other party in this ‘relationship’ cuts down the indoors one – it was off because a client has vomited in the water, says the manager, because evidently, the clients, hotel and higher echelons are responsible for that is wrong, and presumably, she is to be cherished for whatever works, when it does
One of the most influential, illustrious psychologists of our time, Malcolm Gladwell has a few miracle books, Outliers, Blink, Talking to Strangers, and the excellent The Tipping Point http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/08/t... wherein he explains what happens in places that are neglected or abandoned (to joke, just like this Club and that side of the Radisson that refers to ‘spa’) where crime becomes rampant, and he cites the case of New York.
Where windows were broken, graffiti was everywhere, and the areas were dirty and run down, crime levels were high, but when authorities changed their strategy and started focusing on the ‘small crime’ and took care of those sectors – when they stopped the fellows that jumped to avoid paying at the subway, they found that many also had illegal guns, or/and drugs - and taking care of the ‘smaller problems’ helped with solving the major issues – in the same manner, I think the club would do well to fix the trouble (the hotel should do its job better too) because when they give the impression that they neglect and do not care, clients are more aggressive, pour water on the feeble stove in the sauna, and make it even more ‘capricious’, they turn their frustration towards the showers and other spaces and this becomes a vicious spiral, just like in Requiem for A Dream http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/08/t...
Written by Revolutionary Realini – the link proving that is here http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r... an article from Newsweek, covering the 1989 Revolution that ended the Ceausescu regime
February 4, 2020
This book was amazing and showed me a whole knew world into the minds and psyche of mankind. All four of the characters in this story are longing for connection of some sort and for each of them, it eventually leads to their downfall. They all became drug addicts at the end or worse. I found this book because it was sad to be one of the hardest movies to watch due to its rough nature, odd cinematography and the realness of the tough topics it is discussing is too hard for most audiences. I think this book is a great book to read for any mental health professional, anyone struggling with addiction or loneliness, and educated students. You can analyze and break down this book in many different ways and with that, I think it would be a great book to introduce discussion into the classroom setting and or with friends.
February 1, 2021
I learned so much from this script...And I'm not talking about the story which is just fascinating (The movie is also a must-watch) I'm talking about the art of writing a script.Darren is among the best and I would love to read more of his work.
February 8, 2021
I'm gonna be totally honest: I did not read the fine print on my local library website before I requested this book. It was a nice read, though. I'm very disappointed in myself for not getting the right book, but this book was definitely a pleasant surprise.
June 27, 2025
«مرثیهای بر یک رؤیا» نه فقط درباره اعتیاد است، نه فقط درباره سقوط؛ بلکه درباره توهم خوشبختیست. دارن آرونوفسکی فیلم را نه به مثابهی داستان، که همچون ضربآهنگ فروپاشی روایت میکند. هرچه زمان میگذرد، ریتم فیلم تندتر، نفسها بریدهتر، و زوال، ملموستر میشود.
در این جهان، همه در جستجوی چیزی هستند: لاغرتر شدن، ثروتمندتر شدن، دیدهشدن، عشق. اما هر خواسته، خود زهر است. آرونوفسکی با تدوینهای خشن، برشهای سریع و موسیقی اعصابخردکن کلینت منسل، ما را درون مغز شخصیتها میکشد، تا جایی که دیگر مرزی میان واقعیت و توهم باقی نمیماند.
سارا گلدفارب – با بازی خیرهکنندهی الن برستین – تراژدیِ نسلیست که نه مواد، که «امید» آنها را معتاد کرد. مادری تنها که آرزوی حضور در یک برنامه تلویزیونی را دارد، رژیم میگیرد، قرص میخورد، و در پایان، نه به شهرت، که به تخت بیمارستان روانپزشکی میرسد. او با چشمانِ وحشتزده و لبخندِ یخزدهاش، تصویریست از آمریکایِ گرسنهی تأیید.
هری، ماریون و تایرون – هرکدام قربانیانِ رؤیای آمریکایی – نه خلافکارند، نه پلید؛ فقط آدماند. آدمهایی که میخواستند زندگی کنند، اما وقتی زندگی نیامد، دستشان را دراز کردند به سمت هر چیزی که شبیه زندگی بود. ماریون – با چهرهی معصوم و صدایی آرام – تا انتهای سقوط، زیباییاش را حفظ میکند، و این شاید دردناکترین بخش ماجراست: که چطور زیبایی، خودش بخشی از زوال میشود.
صحنهٔ نهایی فیلم – جایی که چهار شخصیت، هرکدام در حالتی جنونآمیز و بیرحمانه، بدنشان را قربانی خواستهشان میکنند – کابوسِ جمعی ماست. آنجا که بدن دیگر «بدن» نیست، بلکه فقط ابزاریست برای بقا، برای فرار، برای نرسیدن به نقطهای که دیگر هیچچیز باقی نمانده.
آرونوفسکی از جنس فیلمسازانیست که به ما رحم نمیکند. او ما را نه دعوت، که وادار میکند به دیدن: دیدنِ بیپردهترین ابعادِ فروپاشی انسان.
مرثیهای بر یک رؤیا، شعریست بیقافیه، اما پر از خون. روایتیست از انسانی که خواست معنا پیدا کند، اما آنقدر دوید، آنقدر گرفت، آنقدر بلعید، تا تهی شد.
و موسیقی کلینت منسل؟
مثل پتکیست که یادآوری میکند:
آرزوها هم میتوانند بکشند.
بهآرامی.
بیصدا.
اما قطعی.
در این جهان، همه در جستجوی چیزی هستند: لاغرتر شدن، ثروتمندتر شدن، دیدهشدن، عشق. اما هر خواسته، خود زهر است. آرونوفسکی با تدوینهای خشن، برشهای سریع و موسیقی اعصابخردکن کلینت منسل، ما را درون مغز شخصیتها میکشد، تا جایی که دیگر مرزی میان واقعیت و توهم باقی نمیماند.
سارا گلدفارب – با بازی خیرهکنندهی الن برستین – تراژدیِ نسلیست که نه مواد، که «امید» آنها را معتاد کرد. مادری تنها که آرزوی حضور در یک برنامه تلویزیونی را دارد، رژیم میگیرد، قرص میخورد، و در پایان، نه به شهرت، که به تخت بیمارستان روانپزشکی میرسد. او با چشمانِ وحشتزده و لبخندِ یخزدهاش، تصویریست از آمریکایِ گرسنهی تأیید.
هری، ماریون و تایرون – هرکدام قربانیانِ رؤیای آمریکایی – نه خلافکارند، نه پلید؛ فقط آدماند. آدمهایی که میخواستند زندگی کنند، اما وقتی زندگی نیامد، دستشان را دراز کردند به سمت هر چیزی که شبیه زندگی بود. ماریون – با چهرهی معصوم و صدایی آرام – تا انتهای سقوط، زیباییاش را حفظ میکند، و این شاید دردناکترین بخش ماجراست: که چطور زیبایی، خودش بخشی از زوال میشود.
صحنهٔ نهایی فیلم – جایی که چهار شخصیت، هرکدام در حالتی جنونآمیز و بیرحمانه، بدنشان را قربانی خواستهشان میکنند – کابوسِ جمعی ماست. آنجا که بدن دیگر «بدن» نیست، بلکه فقط ابزاریست برای بقا، برای فرار، برای نرسیدن به نقطهای که دیگر هیچچیز باقی نمانده.
آرونوفسکی از جنس فیلمسازانیست که به ما رحم نمیکند. او ما را نه دعوت، که وادار میکند به دیدن: دیدنِ بیپردهترین ابعادِ فروپاشی انسان.
مرثیهای بر یک رؤیا، شعریست بیقافیه، اما پر از خون. روایتیست از انسانی که خواست معنا پیدا کند، اما آنقدر دوید، آنقدر گرفت، آنقدر بلعید، تا تهی شد.
و موسیقی کلینت منسل؟
مثل پتکیست که یادآوری میکند:
آرزوها هم میتوانند بکشند.
بهآرامی.
بیصدا.
اما قطعی.
December 20, 2020
A very powerful and tragic story. The writing style was difficult at first due to the format but if you stick with it you are rewarded in the end. This book does not have a happy ending so if you are looking for that then don’t read this one. This one is about abuse, mainly drug abuse and people succumbing to their methods of drug abuse in one capacity or another. I do recommend this book for people that are looking for something a bit deeper and something that will leave a lasting impact on you.
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June 23, 2020
Selby intenta escribir algo shoqueante. Recien mejora el libro en las ultimas 20 paginas. Tiene al menos 200 paginas de mas, largo, tedioso, repetitivo estupido, previsible. Veredicto? Si no lo leen no se pierden nada
March 9, 2022
قلم👍🏼
مفهوم👍🏼
داستان👎🏼
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April 28, 2022
One of the most frightening reading & watching experience i’ve ever encountered to date.
February 18, 2024
It was good, but the book is even better.
June 30, 2009
This book is not for those looking for a clean read. This portrays a bunch of young friends searching for the American dream and the only way out of the slums is through selling heroine. Those of you who know me, know I love anything about psychology, including the downfall of man. Why do people do things and what leads them to act the way they do?
April 30, 2008
Far better than the movie (as most books are). Creative punctuation makes for a unique read.
January 22, 2011
This movie freaked me out. Aronofsky is the master of psycho-concentrated manipulation of the audience's mind.
August 5, 2012
Dark dark dark. I loved the insight into the characters perspectives. It was a great but terribly disturbing read.
July 15, 2013
This is the very first screenplay I ever read. It was also the first screenplay I read before watching the movie. I was hooked. I'm currently a student filmmaker, and with that said is enough.
September 7, 2014
WOW! This was such a good read.
October 4, 2014
Scary stuff
July 25, 2016
Not for me, though it was an interesting look into that lifestyle. I found it a little too depressing.
November 11, 2024
my newest obsession is reading movie scripts when I haven't yet seen the movie. this script was haunting and what I'd label a must-watch before even seeing...the script was that incredible.
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January 11, 2013THIS WAS THE BEST MOVIE. EVER.
June 14, 2013
It rattles you. Kinda depressing but worth it.
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