Overall, this movie was very successful in telling the gritty tale of drug addiction and its degrading effect on the addict, his self respect and the impact on the lives he touched. It made me literally squirm in the reality of its many sequences of shooting up. However, the point of a life spiralling down into new depths until the personal bottom is found which enables the hope of turning a life of self abuse around is made many times. I would have preferred to have seen fewer scenes shooting up and more of the potentially healing relationship that followed. By far his personal growth and challenge in learning to live without drugs would had much more depth and discovery than finding out how he got there in such tedious detail. The last love scene between the main characters conveyed a much more genuine feeling of connection and caring that comes from having lost in life, from forgiveness, from life experiences that hinted at the true potential of this movie and the heights of expression it could have achieved.
Surely, it's a different screenplay, but is one that tells a whole story that is worthy of a feature-length film.
Surely, it's a different screenplay, but is one that tells a whole story that is worthy of a feature-length film.