I think that's where Aronofsky fucked up. In the movie Sara was as she is in the book, so her story was gut-wrenching. But Harry and Marion just didn't jive with their literary counterparts. Harry was a pretty likable guy in the book, and you end up feeling pretty horribly for him. But Marion? Selfish cunt, through and through. Yet in the movie they tried to spin it so that she's some poor emotionally wounded girl who's substituting drugs for love, and really, none of this is her fault. Maybe Aronofsky did that because he was afraid of the backlash he would get if he was true to the book, I don't know.
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