This is another movie that was on my list for a long time. People say it’s very artsy and one of those must watch films. I finally knocked it out late on New Year’s Eve. Right after I watched this I watched She’s All That because I saw it on HBO Max and was like ‘I have to watch this now’. It was a fun surprise to see that the two stars were the guys from the Scooby-Doo movies I used to watch all the time as a kid (and sometimes still do). Nevertheless, it was an interesting double feature to close out the year.
This movie felt like a mix of a realllllly long anti drug PSA and an edgy college film student project. After watching this movie I just felt…. icky. Going into it, I knew it was going to be disturbing given the director, but nothing could have prepared me for the last 20 minutes when it descended into pure disgusting chaos. Im not going to go into detail but it’s the type of thing that will make anyone swear to abstinence for a lifetime. I think this is an important movie that shows the reality of usage of hard drugs. It kind of makes me mad when shows like Breaking Bad and especially the new show Euphoria (which I’m sure a lot of younger teens who shouldn’t be watching it but are) show usage of hard drugs. Yes, these shows make a point to show withdraws and the other consequences of meth/opioids/etc use, but fail to show that in reality, hard drug use often leads to life ruining results. But this movie portrays this in a very real and unnerving way. But I think what this movie is applauded most for is it’s revolutionary (for year 2000, mind you) use of editing. If their goal was to emulate the feeling of a bad high within the viewer, they surely achieved it. (Disclaimer: I don’t know what it feels like to be high, but I would imagine what I experienced watching this film would be comparable to a bad high, from what I’ve heard). I really felt like I was going paranoid along with the lady on the diet pills (basically meth in disguise). This is a movie that will stick with me for a long time, and I think that was it’s main goal.
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