Book Description
The fates of three strangers collide when Tony (Benicio Del Toro), an ex-convict and born-again Christian, accidentally kills a man and his two daughters. As Tony struggles to reconcile his fear of jail with a tenuous faith, the widowed Christina (Naomi Watts) descends into a dangerous cycle of grief, rage, and drug abuse. Paul (Sean Penn) is a mathematician slowly dying of heart disease, who after receiving a transplant finds himself healthy but trapped inside a withering marriage.
As in the critically acclaimed Amores Perros--with whose director Arriaga is once again paired--the unique and individual obsessions of each character become helplessly intertwined while the story moves toward an inevitable conclusion ripe with revenge and redemption. In addition to the script, this volume fully documents the production of the film via extensive original interviews with the filmmakers and numerous photographs.
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Cristina (Naomi Watts) is a recovered drug addict, happily married to an architect, with two beautiful children. Paul (Sean Penn) is a mathematician with a critical heart ailment, trapped in a spent relationship. Jack (Benicio Del Toro) is an ex-convict desperately trying to keep himself pure. Three souls in isolation from one another, until a terrible incident enmeshes them together . . .
The title of ‘21 Grams’ alludes to a mysterious loss of weight in the human body at time of death. Guillermo Arriaga's bold and brilliant screenplay (filmed by ‘Amores Perros’ director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu) moves freely through time, before and after the fatal moment when these three lives collided.
The screenplay is accompanied by exclusive interviews with the film-makers about the making of ‘21 Grams’.
