** SPOILERS AHEAD **
Reminded me a lot of Rush, Blow, Sid and Nancy, and Requiem for a Dream. It’s a stark drama about the toll that drug and alcohol abuse can take on an entire family and community. The trio of addicts featured here seem to regret their decisions and the consequences, but never express any desire to seek help. The tragedy depicts a never-ending cycle of despair resulting in, like Requiem for a Dream, a character losing a limb – shattering his limitless potential as a cellist and surgeon. This drama of destructive excess and the ruins left when the main characters lives descend in to a maelstrom of booze and pills offers no comfort or solutions, but only holds up a mirror to the reality of binging and addiction.
On a strange side note, the end credits of this searing portrait of drug abuse are incongruously humorous – funny even – and might fit better into a movie that was intended to be a comedy.
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