Requiem for a Dream (Screenplay) Paperback – January 1, 2003

Requiem For A Dream is NOT for the weak of heart.Like the film, this screenplay gives its readers a front row seat to four people who are looking for happiness (Which I think is the actual theme of the film), what they will do to get it, and the descent all four of them will go through in the pursuit of it which happens at a fast and furious pace.I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this screenplay to aspiring screenwriters.

Bought for a friend as a gift. He loved it.

Would really like to read the original book. For some reason, the Kindle version is only the screen play. Hope Amazon fixes this soon.

Let me say this up front - Requiem is very, very dark - the setting, the characters, and the message of the book are pretty bleak and hopeless. So why should you read it? First, the characters - Selby has drawn each of the four participants in this race to hell with stunning precision - after reading the book (and seeing the largely faithful movie) you feel as if you honestly know these people. Second, the terrifyingly accurate portrait of the downward spiral of addiction. Each of these characters reacts differently to his/her being hooked, but, with the exception of Sara, the brutal truth finally becomes too evident to ignore, at least until the next "little taste". The isolation of the addict is brilliantly rendered as Sara declines to go out, Tyrone gladly says goodbye to his "fine fox", and Harry and Marion lose the intensity of their love for each other to their more urgent love of heroin. Finally, it is Selby's gifts as a storyteller that provide the main reason for this book's classic status - I have read "stream of consciousness" before, but never have I been so riveted by it. The final 50 pages or so just go by in a horrible blur. Don't expect a light at the end of the tunnel - Selby doesn't celebrate dreamers, he condemns them for obscuring their view of what is with delusions of what could be. Powerful stuff.

this is the screenplay of the movie..if youd rather read the movie than see it (altough there are pictures) then this is your book...it is good, there are a few noticable differences between this and the movie, but it is great if you are a fan of darren aronofsky....if you do like darren aronofsy you should chekc out his "book of the ants"

The book, the movie. Best ever. I have never seen such a good movie or experienced such an incredible story. really