![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To understand Selby's work is to understand the anguish of America. Requiem for a Dream, a movie about four people whose lives are gradually destroyed by their various addictions (and the emotional voids they’re trying to fill), was based on a brutal, poetic. HIs work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Doestoevsky's. "Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists. Even as their lives slowly deteriorate around them, they cling to their delusions and become utterly consumed in the spiral of drugs and addiction, refusing to see that they have instead created their own worst nightmares. Entranced by the gleaming visions of their futures, these four convince themselves that unexpected setbacks are only temporary. She becomes addicted to diet pills in her obsessive quest, while her junkie son, Harry, along with his girlfriend, Marion, and his best friend, Tyrone, have devised an illicit shortcut to wealth and leisure by scoring a pound of uncut heroin. In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight and appear on a television game show. ![]()
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