It is never entirely clear whether the author is protesting against the terrible things that are done to people or registering his disgust with the mutilated, self-deluded population itself. Selby's own authorial stance seems to vary: as one of the cattle, he exudes a vague, but palpable sense of self-pity as one of the horrified observers, a sense of superiority. The destinies of his wretched characters are so obviously preordained that any real drama or spontaneity is largely drained away.
He is not a charlatan or a poseur, but an inadequate writer and artist and thinker. His specialty is lovingly detailing the disasters they undergo. Selby writes in an overheated prose about people who are fairly well destroyed by the time we meet them. There are many things wrong with America, but the neglect of Hubert Selby, Jr. In certain quarters, particularly in Europe, the novelist is considered an unrecognized genius. He's lived in Los Angeles for the past 30 years. Selby had various physical and emotional problems over the next several decades and spent years as an addict. After leaving school at the age of 15, he went to sea. He has four other novels, including Requiem for a Dream, and a volume of short stories to his credit. Selby, of course, has been something of a cult figure ever since the publication of Last Exit to Brooklyn in 1964. 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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